Right Wing Round-Up: Who Needs Evidence When You Have Intuition?

  • Media Matters: Steve Bannon on Trump arresting his political opponents: “The criminals and traitors around Biden, you should be very worried”
  • “Hillary, understand something, President Trump is actually very kind-hearted, he’s a good man, he’s a decent man, he’s a very kind man, but there are people in this movement that are not kind, okay? I consider myself one of them. You’re a target.”

  • Hafiz Rashid @ The New Republic: Mike Johnson Has a Racist Election Conspiracy He Admits He Can’t Prove
  • At a press conference Wednesday, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson pushed a right-wing conspiracy theory that undocumented immigrants are voting in elections—and then in the same breath admitted that there was no proof.

  • Steven Monacelli @ The Texas Observer: The ‘Remnant Alliance’ Is Coming for a School Board Near You
  • For decades, various far-right, faith-based organizations have been working to train pastors and turn congregants into school board activists and candidates. But now, the Remnant Alliance has united several powerful conservative Christian groups.

  • Hunter Walker @ Talking Points Memo: How Republicans Went From The Tea Party, To ‘Stop The Steal,’ To The Next Big Election Conspiracy
  • Activist Jenny Beth Martin’s involvement in Speaker Mike Johnson’s ‘non-citizen’ voting push shows how it’s rooted in the effort to keep Donald Trump in power.

  • Ron Dicker @ HuffPost: Ann Coulter’s Bluntly Racist Admission To Vivek Ramaswamy Is Jaw-Dropping
  • Right-wing commentator Ann Coulter told ex-GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Wednesday she would not have voted for him because he’s Indian.

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