If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember when D’Souza and Laura Ingraham were buddies at Dartmouth. Known for: child right-wing commentator brief switch to liberalism, then switch back falsely claimed Obama blocked him on Twitter. Known for: heavy promotion of Seth Rich conspiracies claim that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was anti-Trump propaganda. Known for: peddling Pizzagate lie tweeting in 2013, “Do a Google image search for ‘lions mating.’ That’s basically rape and it’s also the natural form of sex.” Known for: saying that “if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine.” Known for: losing job over bringing girlfriend, not wife, to evangelical conference admitting to violating campaign finance laws, whining afterward that Obama was trying to make an example of him tweeting that perhaps “whole #Charlottesville rally was a staged event.” Known for: One America News Network Trump-era White House correspondent asking Trump if “Chinese food” was a racist phrase (in attempt to exculpate Trump for saying “Chinese virus”) being subject of ridicule by Borat.īe sure to read Ben’s new book, The Authoritarian Moment. Known for: getting fired from The Washington Post over plagiarism was paid $36,000 to shill in columns for operatically corrupt government of Malaysia. Known for: being Democrats as recently as 2012 calling Nancy Pelosi a “nonfunctioning alcoholic” on Fox News, based on doctored video. 113, China 88, Russian Olympic Committee 71. Known for: disparaging “woke Olympics” “ get woke and lose” final total medal count: U.S. Known for: opposing Trump in 2016 but supporting him in 2020 also, just Google “ Ben Shapiro Cardi B WAP.” They’re all such appalling creatures, but this was as no-contest as they come.
Known for: Remember when she was the Money Honey? Known for: consistent anti-immigrant racism Trump’s last-minute pardon for tax-cheat (and Jeanine-cheat!) ex-husband. Known for: being called an idiot by David Brock, who wrote that she never owned a book being called “ monster” by … wait for it … her brother. Known for: being pissed-off that we now hate Tucker more. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn an “angry left-wing political activist.”
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Known for: see above, plus nightly assaults on reality like calling U.S. Who are the worst of the worst? Who’s the most dangerous senator? Which House member is the biggest threat to democratic order? Which governor is most irresponsibly putting his or her state’s people at risk? Who mounted the most shameless defense of the January 6 insurrection? Which Fox News host is the most despicable? (OK, we probably know that one, so who’s the second-most despicable?) Who’s the most obnoxious and unscrupulous Twitter star? Who’s the most flagrant racist? And, of course, who is the worst Trump? (We know that one, too, so we added a “Second-Worst Trump.”) So The New Republic thought the time was right for a stocktaking. And the horrors extend well outside the halls of Congress, to the states and the right-wing media bubble and beyond. Some of the Republicans in the House of Representatives today make Henry Hyde look like Hubert Humphrey. Well, here we are 40 years on, and it just gets lower. Surely they couldn’t go any lower than that. Pat Robertson Newt Gingrich even people like Illinois Representative Henry Hyde, who at the time seemed about as ideologically extreme as you could get.
Forty years ago, when the right wing was first ascendant in this country, the nation was introduced to some exotic characters the likes of whom most of us hadn’t seen before: Jerry Falwell Sr.
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