It takes crazy to know crazy!
Kari Lake, who’s running an unhinged campaign for U.S. Senate in Arizona, has aligned herself with a Christian nationalist who’s responsible for one of the most racist attack ads in modern U.S. political history.
Meet Floyd Brown, the far-right operative who wants Christians to take over America.
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“How do we take back America? … We do it by your local church taking over your town … Every church should run their town. Every single one of them,” he said in a recent interview, per AZ Central.
Sounds like a reasonable guy!
Brown started his political career in the late 1980s, working against Democratic presidential nominee and Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis. The founder of Citizens United, Brown produced the “Willie Horton” ad, an infamous broadside against Dukakis.
The commercial contrasted Republican George H.W. Bush’s support of the death penalty with the liberal Dukakis, who was opposed.
To make that point, the commercial highlighted the case of Horton, a convicted murderer who raped a woman and stabbed her partner while he was furloughed from prison.
Horton was Black and his victims were white. The spot unabashedly played into racist stereotypes and stoked racial resentment.
In the years that followed, Brown continued to specialize in racist political smears. One of his groups released an attack ad on Barack Obama falsely claiming he was registered as a Muslim student in Indonesia.
But nowadays, the homophobic Brown is even more hateful, if you can believe that. He says Christians can control America in an instant… if they want to.
“I absolutely believe we’re going to take back America,” he said. “The way we do it is by starting at the local level and building out and then taking over the country. As the result of taking county after county … Christians could control America like this (snaps his fingers) if they chose to do it.”
He’s also said recently the U.S. has gone backwards on racial relations (thanks, Obama).
“[Obama] created so much division,” said Brown. “These DEI programs – they’re negative for everybody, including Black Americans. Ben Carson was one of the all-time great surgeons. Yet now, because of DEI, when you see a black surgeon you get a question in your mind. What you want, is you want the blacks that are on top, that do succeed, to be there on their merit.”
No longer trafficking in dog whistles, Brown is just saying the quit part out loud.
Brown is a perfect match for Lake, whose extreme views and outrageous rhetoric have even isolated her from other Arizona Republicans.
She’s been struggling to attract Republicans to support her senate run, never mind independents.
One GOP official told the Arizona Republic Lake’s “charm offensive has turned out to be offensive with no charm.”
OUCH!
Former U.S. Rep. Matt Salmon, whom Lake accused of being “OK with special needs kids being raped” after he opposed her plan to install cameras in school bathrooms, told The Washington Post he would never help her.
“She employs the politics of personal destruction, and she’ll say anything — the most vile things in the world — to get ahead. And I’m sorry, I just can’t forget that,” he said.
As it turns out, when you publicly demean people, they remember.
Who knew?!
With that in mind, former Arizona GOP chairman Jeff DeWit approached Lake about dropping out of the race. He said there are “very powerful people” opposed to her, and asked whether she would consider accepting payment to withdraw.
We know that, because a 10-minute recording of a conversation between DeWit and Lake recently leaked. DeWit is accusing Lake of releasing the tape, which he says is “selectively edited.”
DeWit says Lake also pressured him to resign, threatening to release another damaging tape if he stays in his role.
“I received an ultimatum from Lake’s team: resign today or face the release of a new, more damaging recording,” he said in a statement, per the New York Times.
Lake’s team, of course, denies responsibility.
Much like her idol Donald Trump, legal issues are piling up for the MAGA anti-drag queen. She’s being sued for defamation by one of Maricopa County’s top elections officials, after she falsely accused him of tampering with the 2022 gubernatorial election results.
Democrat Katie Hobbs defeated Lake by 17,000 votes, but she claims there was fraud.
Lake has lost every court case related to the 2022 election, and the State Bar of Arizona is proceeding with cases against her attorneys.
So, yeah…you can see why the Arizona GOP may want Lake to drop out. The likely Democratic senate nominee, rep. Ruben Gallego, is out-fundraising her.
When does that Christian invasion start, again? It could serve as a needed distraction from Lake’s increasing woes.
Stefano
This is the new Trumpist way of defending themselves: “it’s a fraud, it’s a conspiracy” We have the same problem here with Poilievre…you run out of toilet paper, you’re in debt because you don’t know how to manage your personal finances it’s Justin’s fault”. And now they want religion to control the states? Sounds a lot like the Taliban…lol Are people really voting for that?
linedrive
Yes, unfortunately, plenty of people are voting for that. People I know who have always been diametrically opposed to everything Donald Trump is as a person suddenly became his biggest supporters. It’s stunning but I’ve realized it’s because he hates the right groups. His hate turns them on big time. Common hate is clearly a better uniter than common ethics or morals or anything else. And his pretense of caring about Christianity just puts that cherry right on top. What a good man! Weirdest thing I’ve ever witnessed.
Mister P
News flash. Christians do control America. It is like the taliban.
I am just as afraid of Biblical law as I am of Sharia law.
KiraNerysRules
LOL! Yeah. I was thinking the same thing! When have they not controlled America because, whenever that was, I must have blinked.
Baron Wiseman
@Mister P
Yes, all those Christians throwing queer people off of buildings to their death is sooo analogous to Sharia law.
The Christians and their public executions is exactly like Sharia law.
You are a moral fool.
still_onthemark
The Unitarians took over this town back in 1873 and we’re not letting those Christians take it over again!
someplace
If actual for-real Christians took over, he wouldn’t like the end result at all. Then again, he’s got no idea what the religion is about and probably has never seen one.
Mister P
Sharon, it ISIS who throws people off buildings. Christians stone people to death. If they are doing it right.
Baron Wiseman
@Mister P
Yes, ISIS has thrown gay men off of buildings and what do ISIS men believe? In Buddhism? No, the Islamic State (ISIS) is a group of Sunni militants that believes in the strict enforcement of Sharia law.
So Christians stone people to death? When? Heard of any right-wing fundamentalists stoning queers recently? Ever? Jews in the Bible used stoning as a form of capital punishment.
Ironically, stoning is still practiced in several Muslim countries; not in Christian countries or the one Jewish state.
You live in one of the most free and prosperous countries the world and history has ever known. Show gratitude; not victimhood.
decrans
When is the last time Christians stoned people to death? Provide news sources.
JromeGervais09
I was raised in a republican i.e. rethuglican christian home and was gay at 3 years of age. I unfortunately went to a religious college which flipped my way of thinking overnight. I was clear in the dogmatic, fascist, and very controlling wants of the religious right and this was 1965. I am now 77. Served during Vietnam. I know how to fire almost any weapon with accuracy thanks to my religious father and the US Army. The welling up of these crazed alleged christians frightens me in more ways than most Americans can understand. I want these christian nationalist fascists taken out anyway that is possible. I am willing to take them out one church at a time, preferably with them in the building. I fear them more than Russia. Wake up America. Thomas Jefferson said that religion has no place in the political arena or the making of laws.
Georgeiv2
If they want representation then they need to pay taxes !