Indiana's Lieutenant Governor continues to express peculiar opinions -- now he's concerned "Marxist Democrats" are going to lay the groundwork for an "Islamic Caliphate," right here in River Cit- er, Indiana.
Take this as your regular reminder that not even our arch-conservative Governor Mike Braun wanted to run with this guy as his Number Two; the state GOP leadership made him do so. And Indiana Democrats, while they're certainly Democrats, run more in the Evan Bayh mold, Lefty-Centrist or even a little Right, depending on the issue and the individual. (Our actual Hoosier socialists -- Eugene V. Debs, for instance -- never hid it.)
I'm not at all sure why he thinks there's any love or collusion between Islamic fundamentalists and Marxists; history suggests they're not exactly compatible, from Afghanistan to Chechnya to the Uyghurs.* He appears to be just piling up scary things so he can warn everyone of the terrible, terrrrrible dangers that he's sure only an application of the exact right kind of Jesus to civil government can protect against -- I'm surprised he didn't throw feminism or transgender people in, as well. Oooga-booga! Guys like him live their life as if it's an episode of Scooby-Doo, never realizing that they're not the good-hearted "meddling kids" but the man in the monster mask.
Bonus: Ohh, friend, either you're closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated....
Always doubt the motives of a man who's pushing you for a quick emotional reaction; he's reaching for your wallet -- or your fundamental freedoms.
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* Largely but not entirely Muslim.
Update
1 year ago
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To be fair, the MAGA rubes he's pitching this to don't really consider the accuracy of the hate propaganda. These are people who had no problem believing that Obama was both a full on Leftist Commie, and a devout Moslem.
One of the Iowa state office MAGA candidates is running ads declaring he will purge the Marxists from schools, or something like that. They're pretty good at purging Iowa public schools of cash, directed via vouchers to private schools. Eyes rolling a lot lately.
Hasn’t he heard that folks on the right are now praising Islam and sharia law as offering “moral clarity” compared to those wish-washy Christians?
The Tuckerites are currently seen as a heretical sect of MAGA, only because they're openly questioning the Holy & Anointed Trump.
The interesting thing will be if they stay on the purge list, or if Vance makes them mainstream in 2028.
I think it will be interesting to see if Vance's remarkably negative charisma outside of the the most intensely MAGA circles gets him aced out by Marco Rubio or some other supposedly more palatable figure.
Then again, if the economy keeps on going as it has, there may be quite a stink on all of them come November. We'll see -- I certainly won't wish hard times on my fellow citizens, though I doubt they can be avoided.
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