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GOP Maryland AG hopeful is pro-secession and believes all public education is a communist plot: report

  
Via:  Ender  •  3 years ago  •  16 comments

By:   Brad Reed

GOP Maryland AG hopeful is pro-secession and believes all public education is a communist plot: report
 

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Even though Maryland is a deep blue state, it does have a history of electing more moderate Republicans such as  Gov. Larry Hogan .

However,   Vice News reports   that a prospective GOP nominee for Maryland attorney general does not fit anything close to the Hogan mold.

Specifically, the publication notes that   Maryland AG hopeful Michael Peroutka   is a former board member of the neo-Confederate League of the South who says he's "still angry" that Maryland was not able to secede during the American Civil War.

Additionally, Peroutka believes that LGBTQ marriage and abortion should be outlawed for going against "God's law," and he has also criticized the entire concept of public education as a communist plot whose goal is to "transform America away from a Christian worldview."

As if that weren't enough, Peroutka has also vowed to investigate Hogan's efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 over the last two years by implementing mask mandates.

“What happened was so notorious, it was so blatant, so obvious,” he said this past March at an anti-mask rally. “A constitutional God-fearing attorney general of Maryland can do something about that. He can empanel grand juries, he can bring prosecutions against the people who violated your rights.”

Peroutka was once a fringe figure in right-wing politics, but establishment Republicans in Maryland fear that the GOP base has grown so radicalized that it could nominate him for attorney general.

Maryland Republican strategist Doug Mayer, for one, tells Vice News that Peroutka's nomination would spell disaster for the GOP in the state.

"I think he probably has a better chance at building a time machine and traveling back and actually fighting in the real Civil War than becoming Maryland's attorney general," he said. "Unfortunately for normal Maryland Republicans who are running, having someone like him on the ticket would do nobody any favors."


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Ender
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1  seeder  Ender    3 years ago

Whackadoo...

 
 
 
Veronica
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1.1  Veronica  replied to  Ender @1    3 years ago

You are being way to kind.

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
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2  Trout Giggles    3 years ago
"I think he probably has a better chance at building a time machine and traveling back and actually fighting in the real Civil War than becoming Maryland's attorney general," 

That's funny.

Does this moron really think he stands a chance in hell of getting elected?

 
 
 
Ender
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2.1  seeder  Ender  replied to  Trout Giggles @2    3 years ago

When a lived in MD there was one town that had kkk people. I hope it is better now. It was in Gamber.

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
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2.1.1  Trout Giggles  replied to  Ender @2.1    3 years ago

Oh, I'm pretty sure rural Maryland isn't all that different from rural PA. Last time I was home I saw confederate flags flying. I asked my mom why would people fly those things when we were on the right side of the Civil War. She just called them morons

 
 
 
Ender
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2.1.2  seeder  Ender  replied to  Trout Giggles @2.1.1    3 years ago

I had a girlfriend that lived in Gamber. I had to drive through there and pick her up. Everyone thinks of MD as mostly moderate yet in the rural parts there were some real rednecks.

 
 
 
Ender
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3  seeder  Ender    3 years ago

God fearing...

I always have to laugh at that. Like one is suppose to quiver in fear of God...

 
 
 
evilone
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4  evilone    3 years ago
...he has also criticized the entire concept of public education as a communist plot whose goal is to "transform America away from a Christian worldview."

Well he's partially correct. It is a plot to transform America away from his fucked up dystopian version of America that think temporary mask mandates are a violation of one's rights, but banning abortion or same sex marriage isn't.

 
 
 
Ender
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4.1  seeder  Ender  replied to  evilone @4    3 years ago

It seems their rights consist of telling other people how to live.

 
 
 
JBB
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6  JBB    3 years ago

He sounds pretty mainstream for today's gop...

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
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6.1  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  JBB @6    3 years ago
He sounds pretty mainstream for today's gop...

Exactly.

"Peroutka believes that LGBTQ marriage and abortion should be outlawed for going against "God's law," and he has also criticized the entire concept of public education as a communist plot whose goal is to "transform America away from a Christian worldview."

Those are pretty much core tenets of right wing religious conservatives. If he was running in any Red State he'd likely have a pretty good chance of winning because he clearly lives in the same delusional backwards alternate conservative universe that many in the GOP call home.

 
 
 
JBB
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6.1.1  JBB  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @6.1    3 years ago

The good news is that voters oppose the gop's culture wars and are turned off by the fringe candidates the gop base nominates!

 
 
 
Kavika
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6.1.2  Kavika   replied to  JBB @6.1.1    3 years ago

That is partially true JBB, remember we have MTG and Bobart and a few others that fit the  ''totally fucking wacko'' mold.

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
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6.1.3  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  JBB @6.1.1    3 years ago
fringe candidates the gop base nominates

Sadly, there are about a third of Americans who support these whackos which is about 60% of the Republican party. In deep red States they are often 60% of the voters in those States and thus we do get, as Kavika mentions, whackos like MTG and Bobart.

Also, it's a sad truth but the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and there aren't any squeakier wheels than right wing conservative Christians constantly proclaiming themselves victims. Victims of a secular society, victims of a war on Christians, victims of a war on Christmas, victims of not being allowed to discriminate against 'sinners', victims of a public school that isn't pushing their doctrines anymore, victims of being stripped of their right to coerce public school athletes to publicly pray along side their conservative Christian coaches, victims of being stripped of their right to strip women of their right to privacy and bodily autonomy. And because they are constantly whining and claiming victimhood they tend to get the most attention. And there is a fairly large group of low info folk outside the right wing Christian conservative extremists who hear then claiming persecution and think "Well I don't want to be persecuting Christians, let's hear them out...".

 
 

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