After the Republican Party's convention in Twin Falls, the most extreme elements are in complete control.
The new chair is close to the John Birch Society, which was kicked out of the conservative movement in the 50s when it asserted the former president was a communist. The husband of Moon is a member of the John Birch Society.
Donald Trump's Big Lie is a Bircher-style conspiracy theory that Moon built her entire campaign for secretary of state around. Efforts were made to make it easier to disqualify voters in the Republican primaries.
That is not the worst thing that has happened.
The biggest change in the world wouldn't be the new GOP leadership. You shouldn't be allowed to vote in Senate races according to the party's current platform.
The new GOP seems to intend to be cruel. Moon said in her speech that her guns were loaded.
The Idaho Capital Sun reported that the party rejected efforts to express support for an exception in Idaho's abortion ban. Let her die, says the Idaho GOP.
The party is now tied to this kind of cruel behavior.
At the Twin Falls convention, there was a display of cruel behavior. The person responsible for making up flyers for an event for Luna supporters and distributing them at a homeless shelter is either a coward or a complicit person.
Luna fed the people who were hungry. The use of people as pawns in a silly stunt shows a lack of morals.
It was a complete disgrace.
Many of the party's new leaders have shown themselves to be cruel in the past.
Moon is one of the examples. She was a character witness for Von Ehlinger. She said she saw the intern flirting with von Ehlinger and tried to make him look bad. He will be sentenced later this month and could be sentenced to life in prison.
Giddings distributed a post with the intern's name, photograph and information about her family. Moon was one of the people who opposed the censure of Giddings.
Moon will lead the state's dominant party.
She is not the only member of the leadership with a history of moral lapse.
The secretary of the party has shown a similar lack of morals. The emails from her mother were used to make attack mailers against Steve Yates.
Her husband probably lost the election because she was admired by everyone who knew her.
The leaders of Idaho's political party are here. Many of Idaho's best Republican lawmakers of recent years would not recognize a party like that.
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