Sometimes the extremist weirdness is merely ridiculous. We all know that Republicans are accusing James Talarico, the Democrats' Senate nominee in Texas, of having low testosterone and being secretly transgender. But Utah senator Mike Lee decided that those smears weren't weird enough, so he went here:
James Talarico will put you first
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) May 28, 2026
On the altar to Moloch https://t.co/V5So901u9g pic.twitter.com/pZfTcq07VX
Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee recently likened Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico to a child-sacrificing worshipper of the ancient god Moloch....The only thing stupider than this attack is the likelihood that hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of Republican voters find the Moloch conspiracy theory completely believable.
Lee's post was accompanied by an AI-animated video of an 1800s illustration of Moloch surrounded by flames and worshippers offering him a baby.
Moloch is “a Canaanite deity associated in biblical sources with the practice of child sacrifice,” according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, and is mentioned in the Old Testament as an example of the polytheistic gods that the Hebrew God forbade Moses and his followers from worshipping.
In more recent years, far-right conspiracy propagators have alleged that global political and business elites worship Moloch in secret and enact policies to appease the sadistic deity.
Sometimes the extremists are more menacing. This week a former Trumpworld hero, Greg Bovino, traveled to Portugal to speak at RESUM26, a conference on "remigration" of immigrants (legal and otherwise), and also of "Non assimilated naturalized migrants in paralell [sic] societies." As anti-fascist researcher Jeff Tischauser notes, Bovino shared the stage "with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as 'cockroaches.'" (You can read more about the "cockroaches" guy, Afonso Gonçalves, here.)
Bovino also gave an interview to the white nationalist VoxEuropa Herald in which he made his white nationalist allegiances clear.
In his interview with a white supremacist blog, disgraced former-CBP officer Greg Bovino also said he supports the neo-Nazi AfD party in Germany. 2/3 More on AfD from @globalextremism.bsky.social here: globalextremism.org/post/ein-pro...
— Jeff Tischauser (@jtischauser.bsky.social) May 28, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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In the interview, Bovino goes on to say:
Your daughters are being raped and your sons killed in Europe by aliens just like here in the United States. Same problem over different geographic regions. Why not unite and solve this problem once and for all worldwide?A final solution, you might say.
Another proud Republican hatemonger is the lieutenant governor of Indiana.
Indiana's lieutenant governor is facing criticism from Muslim advocacy groups after comments he made about Islam during a Christian talk show appearance.But not every Republicans is a proud hatemonger. Some are just performative macho whackjobs.
... Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith appeared on the Christian talk show "Flashpoint" on May 21. Around the 43-minute mark in the video, he expressed his hatred for Islam, saying they have "radical, jihadi mindsets."
"I am going to call on others to hate it because I hate Islam," Beckwith said. "It is a death cult. Now, I love Muslims, because they make great Christians when Jesus gets a hold of them. But I hate Islam. And we need to be OK with hating again."
Consider Colorado gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx:
The self-described “high-risk missionary” recently sat for an interview with 9News’ Kyle Clark where, among other things, he:And here's my favorite:
* Claimed to have been forced to kill a man at age 7.
*Got upset at Clark for asking if he’s killed people as an adult.
* Took credit for helping rescue 43 missing children in Florida, yet could offer no proof of that, nor of rescuing more than 45,000 women and children ― which he’s also previously asserted before removing the claim from his campaign website.
* Declined to address a claim that, as a civilian, he once called in a military airstrike that killed 70 fighters from the Islamic State group.
* Told Clark how he performs exorcisms over the phone.
Victor Marx performs exorcisms, commanding demons to be cast off.
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) May 28, 2026
Marx says he doesn't charge for exorcisms but instructions appeared in a $99 Spiritual Warfare Guide on his website.
"Do you understand why so many of your critics think you're a con man," I asked.
"No," he said pic.twitter.com/4fEnISBVGy
In the only available poll of the Republican primary, Marx leads his nearest rival by 29 points and has a +32 net favorability rating. Marx has been endorsed, unsurprisingly, by Ted Nugent, Mike Flynn, and Lauren Boebert.
And that's just from the past few days.
This is who Republicans are. They hate everyone who doesn't worship like them or eat like them or enjoy the sports and vehicles they prefer. They hate whoever doesn't live like them in every way. Many of them claim to be superheroes cleansing the world of evil, but they're usually lying or fantasizing, or their voters are fantasizing on their behalf -- see every AI image and video of a buff, youthful Donald Trump conquering his enemies without breaking a sweat.
I'm old enough to remember that even at the height of Ronald Reagan's popularity, his religious-right allies became objects of mockery for being slimy, finger-wagging, money-grubbing moral hypocrites. They alienated much of America, including many people in flyover states who weren't liberal but had no use for their moral rigidity and sanctimoniousness. Also, their public displays of wealth were ridiculous and tacky.
Democrats should describe the current crop of Republicans as extreme weirdos because that's what they are. Millions of normal people don't want to hate everyone who's unlike them and don't want leaders who have chest-thumping delusions of masculine grandeur. Tim Walz was saying the right thing about Republicans in 2024 before the consultants persuaded him to stop.
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