While recent election results restored some measure of sanity to Arizona's political lineup, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar reminded us that there is still a lot of madness on the roster.
I don't think sad reality had escaped most of us.
Arizona will continue to be stuck with the reputation for electing cranks because of the cankerous bile oozing from politicians like Gosar.
The criminal insurrectionists who invaded the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, caused at least four deaths, injured 150 or so police officers and caused millions of dollars in damage.
The treatment of the Jan. 6 protestors is inhumane and unacceptable according to Gosar. They deserve a lot more than an immediate pardon.
Someone swore an oath to protect the constitution.
Arizonans are aware that Gosar, like former President Donald Trump, has cozied up to white nationalists.
According to news reports, Trump met with the antisemitic rapper West at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
There were many election-denying candidates in Arizona.
He spoke at an America First Political Action Committee gathering that Fuentes organized, and has defended him, once saying on the radical, right-wing social networking site Gab, "The phony January 6th Committee's partisan witch-hunting continues as they have now set their sights on young It has to stop because this is pure political persecution. The congressman was thanked by Fuentes.
Wendy Rogers is a close friend of the man. She attended a Fuentes-organized event in which she fantasized about hanging political enemies while describing members of the white nationalist crowd as "patriots".
The rule among some of Arizona's more prominent Republican politicians is that Gosar and Rogers are not the exception.
The Republicans in the Legislature are well known for their election conspiracy theories.
The thing continues.
Also on.
Recent election results restored some measure of sanity to Arizona's elected officials, but the state's political psychosis is not under control. Gosar accidentally pointed out an admonition.
We should thank him.
Montini can be reached at ed.montini.
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