Michael Peroutka —a neo-Confederate “still angry” Maryland didn’t secede during Civil War, & who’s refused to disavow his past membership in white supremacist group League of the South — has won the GOP nomination to be Maryland’s next attorney general. https://t.co/V2d8ezKG7E
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) July 20, 2022
read this extensive @cam_joseph profile on Peroutka.
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) July 20, 2022
"His views are extreme even for modern GOP, & once would be considered disqualifying…But [Peroutka] shows just how far the door has been thrown open to extremism in the GOP" https://t.co/KU2TA351f0
Pretty terrifying stuff happening in the Maryland GOP this year. A former board member of a neo-Confederate hate group was nominated as Republicans' pick for AG https://t.co/l5GDND8kDi
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) July 20, 2022
The projected victories of two far-right GOP candidates in the Maryland primary for governor and attorney general provides a potent opportunity to show how the long game of Christian nationalism intersects with the insurrection and election denialism.
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) July 20, 2022
A thread:
LMAO.
Did you see this?
“Michael Peroutka, a neo-Confederate activist who’s refused to disavow a racist group to which he once belonged, has won the Republican nomination to be Maryland’s next attorney general.
Peroutka, a former Anne Arundel County Council member, beat his opponent Jim Shalleck, a former state and federal prosecutor, on Tuesday. He’ll face Democrat Anthony Brown in November. …
As documented in a recent, extensive Vice News profile, Peroutka is part of a growing Christian nationalist coalition that’s tightening its grip on the GOP. He believes lawmakers should “take a biblical worldview and apply it to civil law and government.” …
And in 2002, according to Vice, Peroutka gave a speech to a racist organization called the League of the South, in which he said he was “still angry” that Maryland did not secede from the Union during the Civil War. …”
I’ve met Michael Peroutka before.
He spoke at one of the first League of the South conferences that I attended about a decade ago. I think I may have voted for him when he ran for president on the Constitution Party ticket.
For what i know, as also you wrote in this article, Peroutka left League of the South, even if his principles are still conservative. It’s ridiculous that they attack him because of his past in the League when he’s not anymore in the League because he didn’t agree with the League tone and method.
Both Maryland and Delaware would have seceded if they were allowed to, in the case of Maryland Yankee occupiers literally had to arrest the elected legislators before they could hold a vote.
The first Southerners to spill Yankee blood were the men of Maryland who opened fire on Yankee troops in Baltimore about to board the south bound trains to invade Virginia.
Now Maryland is enemy territory worse than Occupied Northern Virginia.
There’s a longstanding attitude in this movement – understandable on some level, but irrational in the current year – that unless an aspiring politician is exactly like we want him to be, then he’s not good enough. Political purity, basically. Renegade Tribune and the Vanguard crowd specialize in this.
I don’t see how it hurts or waters down the WN Movement for conservatism, the Republican Party, and WN to increasingly blend together, blurring the distinctions among both. It would only hurt us if we surrendered on our major principles – such as race mixing being a bad thing. I’m not worried about that happening. Increasingly, the conservative movement and the GOP are unable to gatekeep and keep “The Bad Stuff” out.
Our job as a movement is to drag conservatism and the Republican Party rightwards, and continue to goad them into growing balls and punching back against the Left. We shouldn’t want to destroy conservatism. We should transform it in our own image.
‘extremist’, haven’t the jwz worn that word threadbare ?
Light turnout in the Baltimore-Washington area, Peroutka might win.
We need more men like this to get elected and won’t apologize for living in reality.
These Christ killers like Jared Holt do not get, there is nothing wrong with hating those who prey upon the weak and the innocent. In fact it is a good, a righteous thing, the Christian thing to do. Why do you hate the unborn Jared? Where you born that way or was it inculcated into your pea sized brain and you were too morally weak to fight what was forced on you?
It’s pretty funny since Peroutka is a Czech name so it’s highly unlikely his ancestors were anywhere in Maryland during the war.
Awesome! How about Chuck Baldwin for Governor? He can rule from afar in Montana
The only appropriate response to shitlibs when they “demand” disavowals of sane pro-White positions/affiliations is something like:
“I disavow nothing. Let my enemies disavow their nation-destroying Cultural Marxism.”
Never defend. Always counter-attack.
I love watching the usual suspects get triggered and it’s usually predictable.
Everyone has a mother and a father, and you might not be sure who the father is, but, you know who the mother is. LOL. His mother might be a Smith or a Jones. Then you have grandmothers.
The earlier your family came to the US the harder it is to figure out whose who too. LOL.
Voted for him a long time ago when he ran in the Constitution Party.