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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">720 belated</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">SEE VAXX 4</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">see fail 3</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">see super-spreader
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>basically this is stay @ home 3&nbsp;</b></font><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">mask and vax meld?</span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">promote primary 8/20 facebk/BB promote BS (it is the simplest most effective def we have)
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">mask becomes ideological signifier</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>aha root of so much RW fuckery eg MIch takeover, kidnap, rod of iron ....</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SEE WASH SPECT ARTLS <b>THREE PRONG TRUMP ELECTION STRATEGY:</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">pseudo event, tobacco playbook 3rd party bs:&nbsp;<b times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px">&nbsp;NOTE RWI NICHE SLEEPER CELLS]</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NOTE CORP&nbsp; CNP&nbsp;<b>ALEC KOCH TP&nbsp;</b>BASTARDS USE HYDROXY IN CYNICAL? FURY?&nbsp; MOVE TO RE-OPEN ECONOMY</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9/20&nbsp;</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="caps" /></font></p><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On July 27, a dozen physicians posed in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., dressed in white lab coats with “America’s Frontline Doctors” stitched over the pocket. The group’s chief spokesperson was<b>&nbsp;Dr. Simone Gold</b>, an emergency physician from Los Angeles. They were introduced by</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;Jenny Beth Martin,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">the&nbsp;<b>founding CEO of Tea Party Patriots,</b>&nbsp;as participants in the “White Coat Summit.”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;The doctors made spirited arguments for the use of hydroxychloroquine as a “cure” for Covid-19 and against wearing masks and imposing lockdowns—all running counter to the recommendations of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</span><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn1" name="ftnref1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[1]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Although the event was billed as a “press conference,” few journalists attended. A video posted by a bystander showed only a handful of attendees, most of them dressed in tourists’ shorts and T-shirts. But the event was livestreamed by Breitbart News and quickly went (so to speak) viral.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There was a rapid backlash. Much of the media attention focused on<b>&nbsp;Dr. Stella Immanuel,</b>&nbsp;one of Gold’s cohort. Following the press conference, the Daily Beast posted a video of Immanuel, who is also a<b>&nbsp;Pentecostal&nbsp;</b>preacher, delivering a sermon claiming that various<b>&nbsp;female ailments were caused by sexual visitations from “demons.”</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Immanuel has since disappeared from the America’s Frontline Doctors online roster, but the group has continued to get traction. On August 10, Pat Robertson’s show on the Christian Broadcasting Network carried an interview with Simone Gold and an endorsement of her hydroxychloroquine cure.&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On August 21, Alex Jones’s NewsWars carried an interview with another member of America’s Frontline Doctors, Mark McDonald. McDonald—a child psychiatrist—<a href="https://www.newswars.com/frontline-doctor-silenced-by-youtube-and-facebook-speaks-out-about-hydroxychloroquine/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">maintained</a>, “If all Americans had access to hydroxychloroquine, the pandemic would essentially end in about 30 days.”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Science has shown otherwise. Despite early hopes last spring, there is mounting evidence that hydroxychloroquine is a problematic—and even dangerous—treatment for Covid-19. One expert with firsthand knowledge is Nick Sawyer, an academic emergency physician in Sacramento, Calif. In July he&nbsp;<a href="https://cdn.ymaws.com/californiaacep.org/resource/resmgr/docs/lifeline/2020/lifeline_magazine_summer2020.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">wrote</a>&nbsp;an article for&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Lifeline,</em>&nbsp;the publication of the California chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, describing his harrowing two weeks of service in the Covid wards of Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. Sawyer was part of a team of California doctors dispatched by Governor Gavin Newsome to offer emergency assistance at the epicenter of the epidemic, at the height of the New York City outbreak.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sawyer is now dealing with the spike in cases in California, this time with the benefit of four months of additional Covid research. “The science on the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating Covid-19 is settled—multiple high-quality studies have shown that it shows no benefit,” he notes. Far more concerning, Sawyer says, is its potential harm: “Hydroxychloroquine can cause unstable cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death.” Over recent months, the Food and Drug Administration, the American Medical Association, and other organizations have issued&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/joint-statement-of-the-american-medical-association-american-pharmacists-association-and-american-society-of-health-system-pharmacists-on-new-fda-action-to-remove-emergency-use-authorization-of-medications-to-treat-covid-19-301082292.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">warnings</a>&nbsp;that the drug should be withdrawn as a Covid-19 treatment. “It’s irresponsible for America’s Frontline Doctors to continue to push this medication on the unwitting American population,” Sawyer states.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Why, then, would Gold’s band of physicians continue its campaign to pitch the treatment to the public? Simone Gold has repeatedly described her group as a “grassroots organization” acting in the service of its patients.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn2" name="ftnref2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[2]</a>&nbsp;In fact, it has been a highly orchestrated effort, months in the making, assembled by conservative Washington insiders in direct consultation with the White House, with the goal of reopening the economy in time to benefit Trump’s reelection prospects—regardless of the toll in human lives.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The first public mention of the initiative may have been a&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington Post</em>&nbsp;story on April 13, as the virus raged across New York City and Covid-19 deaths passed the 20,000 mark</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn3" name="ftnref3" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[3]</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;The&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;reported the creation of a new conservative coalition [biz man group 100?]&nbsp; “pushing for the White House and GOP lawmakers to push back against health professionals who have urged more caution.”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">&nbsp;The leadership was listed as&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>Stephen Moore</b>&nbsp;of the Heritage Foundation</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">, Adam Brandon of FreedomWorks, and Lisa Nelson of the American Legislative Exchange Council. A fourth individual, Jenny Beth Martin, i</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s the founding director of the Tea Party Patriots. She would play a key role in organizing the events to come, including the doctors’ Washington “summit” in July.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Brandon, Nelson, and Martin are all prominent members of a secretive organization called the Council for National Policy,&nbsp;</b>a shadowy coalition that coordinates initiatives among conservative megadonors, political operatives, and media owners, many of them Christian fundamentalists (see “<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/nelson-shadow-network/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">Holding Democracy Hostage</a>”).</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em>&nbsp;story quoted an interview with&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Richard Viguerie, a co-founder of the CNP,</span>&nbsp;on the mission of the initiative: “The sooner we get the economy going and back up, the better it’s going to be for conservatives and Republicans in this election year.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;Conservatives feel the government has overreacted, and it’s got to end.</b>”<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn4" name="ftnref4" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[4]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>The new coalition, called Save Our Country,</b>&nbsp;officially debuted on April 27, as U.S. Covid deaths approached 55,000.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn5" name="ftnref5" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[5]</a>&nbsp;<b>Headed by economist Art Laffer,</b>&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">its maiden press release featured quotes from Brandon, Nelson, and Martin</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. “The long-term consequences of a prolonged societal shutdown outweigh the damage done by the virus itself,” Martin stated. “We must immediately reopen the economy.”</span><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn6" name="ftnref6" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[6]</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Earlier that week,&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The New York Times</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;reported that the Save Our Country coalition’s members were mobilizing their networks for state-level rallies, filing lawsuits, and commissioning polls, all to counter the lockdowns: “</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nonprofit</span>&nbsp;groups including FreedomWorks and Tea Party Patriots</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;have used their social media accounts and text and email lists to spread the word about protests across the country.”</span><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn7" name="ftnref7" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[7]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the state-level protests turned out to be of limited utility, and the group began to look for new avenues. In April, CNP Action, the lobbying arm of the CNP, began a series of weekly conference calls to discuss Covid strategy. On May 11—as U.S. Covid deaths reached 74,270<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn8" name="ftnref8" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[8]</a>—one of the calls was intercepted and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prwatch.org/news/2020/05/19582/coalition-pro-trump-doctors-forming-defend-president%E2%80%99s-covid-19-blunders" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">published</a>&nbsp;by the Center for Media and Democracy and the Associated Press.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Among the participants were&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">CNP President William Walton,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">CNP member Nancy Schulze,</span><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn9" name="ftnref9" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[9]</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">&nbsp;and Mercedes Schlapp,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a senior adviser to the Trump campaign.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Schulze, the wife of former nine-term Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Dick Schulze, opened the call with a warning that two-thirds of the American people were wary of reopening the economy. But, she added, “Doctors are seen by the American people—they have a 92 percent trust rate with the American people according to polling.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;There is a coalition of doctors, doctors’ coalition, who are extremely pro-Trump, that have been preparing and coming together for the war ahead in the campaign on health care, and<b>&nbsp;these doctors could be activated for this conversation now for reopening. NOTE RWI NICHE SLEEPER CELLS]</b></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“The one thing the left does give credence to, in that they tend to be motivated by a secular worldview, the one thing that they do appreciate and listen to is science, and we have doctors that have the facts, that lived this themselves, that are in the trenches, that are saying it’s time to reopen</b>,” Schulze continued. “I’ve been working with them for three years. There’s a coalition of doctors .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. including the most respected doctors in this country, that are ready to speak if somebody will just call on them.</span>”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Walton told her, “We need to not just make the economic argument,<b>&nbsp;we need to make the health argument, and we need doctors to make that argument, not us</b>.&nbsp;</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">THIRD PARTY TOBACCO PR BS</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;And so that would be great if you, if we could tee that up.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schulze said she’d be happy to put him in touch “with any and all of these doctors, and I have submitted 27 of these doctors’ names to the campaign for the doctors’ coalition that they’re in the process of building.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Mercedes Schlapp asked Schulze if she had spoken with Hannah Castillo, director of coalitions for the Trump campaign.&nbsp;</b>“I know they’ve been working on building that coalition. I know they’re going through the vetting process right now. As long as you have the names, that would be helpful.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;Those are the type of guys we want to get out on TV and radio to help push out the message.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schulze replied, “I’ve been working with Hannah for over six weeks now, so they already have been vetted. But they need to be put on the screen.”<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn10" name="ftnref10" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[10]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Dr. Simone Gold</b>, a 54-year-old emergency physician from Los Angeles, was ready for her close-up. On April 22, Gold had tweeted a stand-up of herself wearing a white “Emergency Dept.” coat, in front of Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai hospital emergency room, suggesting that concerns over the virus were inflated. She pointed out that the hospital “parking lots are empty, the emergency department volume is down, the patient census is down, and that’s really in most of the areas I’ve been to</span>.”<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn11" name="ftnref11" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[11]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On May 7, she brought a more explicit anti-lockdown message to a program on the&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Whiskey Politics</em>&nbsp;show on Salem Radio, part of the massive Salem Media conglomerate owned by two leading members of the Council for National Policy</b>.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn12" name="ftnref12" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[12]</a>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It was headlined “DR. SIMONE GOLD GOES PUBLIC!&nbsp;<b>What the Government WON’T Tell Us About COVID-19.”</b></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">“It’s not at all clear that overall, that social distancing is going to make a huge impact,” Gold said.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn13" name="ftnref13" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[13]</a>&nbsp;“We’re all acting like as though there’s a huge medical crisis. There’s a medical issue, we should handle it responsibly, but what’s going on in our country now is a terrible legal crisis. Our constitutional rights are being trampled on right and left.”<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn14" name="ftnref14" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[14]</a>&nbsp;Gold later added, “There’s always viruses&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;but I’m not sure that it’s front-page news.”</span><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn15" name="ftnref15" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[15]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The Guardian</em>&nbsp;reported that over the same period, the Save Our Country coalition spent $50,000 on videos on social media platforms “targeting independents and Republicans with the message that Covid-19 mostly hits the elderly to minimize risks for others.”</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 300ms; transition-delay: 0ms; transition-property: color;">[16] GUK</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On May 19—as&nbsp;<b>U.S. Covid deaths reached 84,640</b><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn17" name="ftnref17" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[17]</a>—the CNP’s doctors coalition (billed as “A Doctor A Day”) made its debut with an&nbsp;</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">open letter to Donald Trump signed by “500+ doctors” (a number that was later revised to over 800).&nbsp;<b>“In medical terms, the shutdown was a mass casualty incident,” it stated. “It is impossible to overstate the short, medium, and long-term harm to people’s health with a continued shutdown.” The lead signatory was Dr. Simone Gold.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On June 16—with U.S. Covid deaths approaching&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">110,000</span><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn18" name="ftnref18" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[18]</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;and the U.S. economy in freefall—the Save Our Country coalition published an</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;open letter to President Trump and Leader McConnell,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">urging “that the&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">multi-trillions of dollars of federal government debt spending in the wake of the Coronavirus come to a stop</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">”</span><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn19" name="ftnref19" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[19]</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Twelve of the 20 signatories (among them Brandon, Nelson, and Martin) were members of the CNP, including&nbsp;<b>CNP President William Walton and Executive Director Bob McEwen.</b></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The push to reopen the schools became a full-court press. On July 7, Trump assembled a White House meeting on the subject.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;Jenny Beth Martin spoke as both the CEO of Tea Party Patriots and “as a mom.”</span></b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“Mr. President, you were right, and I hope you will trust your instincts,</b>” she told Trump. “America is not meant to be shut down.&nbsp;And we have to reopen schools this fall. I’ve been in touch with almost a thousand doctors from around the country.&nbsp;I helped Dr. Simone Gold spearhead a letter to you signed by 800 physicians and surgeons who talked about the side effects of the lockdowns.&nbsp;I’ve done a second letter with over 150 doctors, 240 nurses, 330 educators, 70 national groups, and thousands of parents and concerned Americans who want to see schools reopened.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A video of Martin’s statement appeared, billed as “Mom Gives Unexpected Speech Directly to Trump” without naming her or her affiliation. It was posted on various social media platforms, including Glenn Beck’s YouTube channel, The Blaze (where it clocked over 400,000 views as of August 4)</b>.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn20" name="ftnref20" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[20]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Dr. Simone Gold was now preparing to join Jenny Beth Martin on center stage. On July 22, Gold warmed up for her appearance on&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The Charlie Kirk Show</b></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">,</em>&nbsp;with over 157,000 YouTube subscribers</span>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;<b>Kirk, a member of the Council for National Policy,</b>&nbsp;heads a group called Turning Point USA, which recruits right-wing campus activists. (Donald Trump addressed its Youth Action Summit last December, and Donald Trump Jr. is quoted on its website stating, “I’m convinced that the work by Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk will win back the future of America.</span>”)<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn21" name="ftnref21" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[21]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The introduction for Kirk’s show summed up the case Gold and her colleagues would make over the coming weeks:&nbsp;<b>“Charlie is joined in studio by board-certified emergency physician Dr. Simon [sic] Gold, who says nearly everything we’ve been told about the Chinese Coronavirus is a lie.&nbsp;</b>She and Charlie take a deep dive into the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine and why the U.S. government is barring physicians from prescribing the drug—endangering potentially 100,000 lives, at least.&nbsp;<b>Charlie also takes on Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx</b>, asking if Dr. Gold challenges the effectiveness of&nbsp;<b>wearing masks. Dr. Gold makes a stunning and factual assertion about the death rates and who exactly is to blame for what she believes is one of the biggest lies ever perpetrated against the American people.</b>”&nbsp;<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn22" name="ftnref22" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[22]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Gold’s “stunning assertion” was the often-repeated claim that doctors were falsifying death certificates, speculating without foundation that they were inflating Covid-19 cases by “20 to 30 percent.”<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn23" name="ftnref23" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[23]</a><b>&nbsp;Gold also asserted, “Masks are really foolish, they don’t do anything.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;There’s zero scientific justification for the mask</b></span><b>.”</b><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn24" name="ftnref24" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[24]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jenny Beth Martin emphasized a social media campaign from the start. Her Tea Party Patriots website posted the program of the White Coat Summit, offering the participating doctors a two-hour session devoted to expanding their social media reach</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">: “YouTube and other social media vastly exceed television news as the information source for most Americans. Interviews and Q/A with social media personalities with large followers is the best way to talk to Americans. Doctors who want to answer questions from these modern journalists will have the opportunity.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By the time Jenny Beth Martin hosted Gold’s White Coat Summit on July 27, U.S. Covid-19 deaths had skyrocketed to over&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">136,000</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></b><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn25" name="ftnref25" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[25]</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;The physicians’ presentation carried a lethal stew of misinformation. Dr. Bob Hamilton, a pediatrician from Santa Monica, assured viewers, “Children are not passing [the virus] on to their parents or their teachers.” (A few days later, the CDC released a report on a massive transmission event in June at a Georgia summer camp, with a median age of 12</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn26" name="ftnref26" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[26]</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Dr. Richard Urso—an ophthalmologist—praised hydroxychloroquine as a “cure” for the virus,&nbsp;</b>but it was not clear that Urso had ever had any significant experience treating Covid-19 patients. Another speaker was Dr. Daniel Erickson, a Bakersfield physician who co-owns an urgent care facility. In April he had been censured by the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine for his “reckless and untested musings” opposing stay-at-home orders and promoting the conspiracy theory about doctors misattributing deaths to Covid-19</span>.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn27" name="ftnref27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[27]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The social media strategy paid off. Gold and her colleagues’ video, livestreamed on Breitbart News, reportedly reached 185,000 concurrent users</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn28" name="ftnref28" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[28]</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The New York Times</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">’ Kevin Roose reported that over its six hours on Facebook, it was the second-most-engaged post on the platform, with 14 million views.</span></b><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn29" name="ftnref29" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[29]</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">(The audiences for network news broadcasts, by comparison, range from 9 to 12 million.) A few hours after the presentation</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">, President Trump tweeted the video to his 84.5 million followers.<b>&nbsp;Donald Trump Jr. told his 5.3 million Twitter followers, “</b>This video is a much [sic] watch!!! So different from the narrative everyone is running with.”</span><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn30" name="ftnref30" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">[</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">30]</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Trump redoubled his support at his press conference the following day, stating “I think they’re very respected doctors.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</span><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn31" name="ftnref31" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[31]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But major social media platforms reacted with relative speed. Facebook took the group’s video down a few hours after it was posted, and Twitter and YouTube followed suit,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;all three on the grounds that the video violated their Covid-19 misinformation policies.</span><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn32" name="ftnref32" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[32]</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Twitter took the unusual step of suspending Trump Jr.’s account for 12 hours.</span></b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Gold had built the original America’s Frontline Doctors website on a SquareSpace platform, but&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">SquareSpace took it down</span>. Gold rebuilt the website (omitting Stella Immanuel of “demon sperm” renown) and started raising money through PayPal and fundly.com. The doctors’ program also remained on the Tea Party Patriots site.</b></font></p></div><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading"><span class="caps"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;6 23</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d93qd/moms-for-liberty-proud-boys" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d93qd/moms-for-liberty-proud-boys</a></font></p><div data-component="BodyComponentRenderer" class="articlebody-components articlebody-components--longform" style="font-size: var(--font-size-body); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; line-height: var(--line-height-body-loose);"><div class="long-formbody-group" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px; margin: auto;"><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">alexandra Caballero was already well-known in Miami’s far-right scene as an organizer of anti-mask protests at school board meetings when, in August 2021, she joined the city’s chapter of the extremist “parental rights” group known as Moms for Liberty.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">For six months, Caballero told VICE News that she was happy to be a member of the group. Founded in 2020, Moms for Liberty portrays itself as a wholesome, grassroots movement that is focused on protecting students. However, previous VICE News investigations uncovered a pattern of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3gnq/what-is-moms-for-liberty" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">disturbing behavior by the group’s members</a>, who have&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ezek/moms-for-liberty-book-banning-lgbtq" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">violently harassed and intimidated parents,</a>&nbsp;school superintendents, school board members, and students who have stood up to them. Caballero took part in many of these protests and harassment campaigns until April 2022.&nbsp;</p></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div><div class="long-formbody-group" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px; margin: auto;"><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">Then, things turned sour.&nbsp;</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><b>After an argument with the local leader of the chapter, Eulalia María Jiménez-Hincapie, Caballero claims that she became the target of the very same harassment campaigns she’d once taken part in.</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the attacks didn’t just come from Moms for Liberty members, Caballero said; they also came from members of a local Proud Boys chapter.</span>&nbsp;The Vice City Proud Boys were co-founded by former Proud Boy “chairman” Enrique Tarrio, who earlier this month was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bdp3/proud-boys-top-brass-found-guilty-of-seditious-conspiracy-for-role-in-january-6-insurrection" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">found guilty of seditious conspiracy</a>&nbsp;by a federal jury in Washington, D.C. The alleged attacks included threats to her business, deeply personal messages referencing past trauma, and false police reports against her.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It’s not just Proud Boys that Moms for Liberty has allegedly gotten involved with, however. A VICE News investigation has uncovered links between numerous Moms for Liberty chapters and extremist groups like the Proud Boys,&nbsp;<a href="https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/this-three-percenter-georgia-militia-is-hell-bent-on-keeping-its-guns/59d25e1959d9ab5c3d5074db" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Three Percenters</span></a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5ygby/david-straight-arrest-sovereign-citizen-movement" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">sovereign citizen groups</span></a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvd5b/what-is-qanon" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">QAnon conspiracist</span></a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vew9/christian-nationalism-churches" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Christian nationalists</span></a>, and in one case, with the founder of the&nbsp;<b>AK-47-worshiping&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwep53/we-spent-a-wild-weekend-with-the-gun-worshipping-moonie-church-thats-trying-to-go-maga" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rod of Iron Ministries</span></a></b>&nbsp;church in Pennsylvania</span>.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Around the country, Moms for Liberty has formed links with extremist groups and militias, which are joining forces with the “parental rights” group at protests and school board meetings, and in turn pushing the already far-right organization toward even more extreme ideology.&nbsp;</span></p></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div><div class="long-formbody-group" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px; margin: auto;"><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“There's an ongoing campaign by these neo-Nazi groups to radicalize some of these more benign patriot MAGA groups—and it's working because I've seen more Nazi content creeping into posts from Moms for Liberty people recently</span>,” a researcher, who is&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/supertrashcity/status/1653245931322499074" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">known as Trash City</a>, and who closely tracks Moms for Liberty activity, told VICE News earlier this month.</p></span><blockquote data-component="QuoteBlock" class="abcquote abcquote--pullquote" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-left: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-hed); font-weight: var(--font-weight-hed-bold); font-size: var(--font-size-h2); line-height: var(--line-height-body-normal);">The attacks didn’t just come from Moms for Liberty members, Caballero said; they also came from members of a local Proud Boys chapter.</p></blockquote><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Earlier this month, a day after former President Donald Trump announced he would speak at the group’s annual summit alongside fellow Republican presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/year-hate-extremism-2022/introduction#hateextremism" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Southern Poverty Law Center</span></a>&nbsp;(<b>SPLC) designated Moms for Liberty as an “anti-government extremist” organization for the first time.</b>&nbsp;</span></p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The group’s primary goals are to fuel right-wing hysteria and to make the world a less comfortable or safe place for certain students–primarily those who are Black, LGBTQ or who come from LGBTQ families,” the SPLC said in its report published this week.</span></p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">In an emailed statement to VICE News, Moms for Liberty dismissed the designation as “name-calling” and said “no amount of hate from groups like [the SPLC] is going to stop” what its members are doing.</p></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div><div class="long-formbody-group" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px; margin: auto;"><div class="articlebody-heading" data-component="HeadingBlock" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 class="articlebody-headingheading heading2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 30px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“The common mission”</span></h2></div><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">During her six months as a member of Moms for Liberty, Caballero was involved in&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">multiple situations where the group's members collaborated with the Proud Boys, she said, including&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/miaagainstfash/status/1451221463483265031" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">a school board meeting</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;in October 2021 where a left-wing activist was harassed outside a meeting for</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> wearing a mask.</b></p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">“The Proud Boys are heavily involved in the Miami chapter of Moms for Liberty,” Caballero said. "Moms for Liberty want to push their agenda with fear, harassment, and intimidation, and they have the Vice City<b>&nbsp;Proud Boys as their foot soldiers.”</b></p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><b>The two groups collaborated in Telegram chats</b>, according to screenshots of the groups shared by Caballero and&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/MIAagainstFash" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Miami Against Fascism</a>, a group of online researchers who track the activity of far-right extremists in the region.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">“They’ll create a Telegram chat group and they'll invite people and they'll do a call to action, and the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">call to action is usually attacking where the person works, making phone calls, leaving bad reviews,”</span>&nbsp;Caballero said, describing the process of harassment.</p></span><blockquote data-component="QuoteBlock" class="abcquote abcquote--pullquote" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border-left: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-hed); font-weight: var(--font-weight-hed-bold); font-size: var(--font-size-h2); line-height: var(--line-height-body-normal);">“There's an ongoing campaign by these neo-Nazi groups to radicalize some of these more benign patriot MAGA groups—and it's working.”</p></blockquote><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">In those chats, Jiménez-Hincapie can be seen interacting with Tarrio prior to the revelations in January 2021 that he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3v8m4/proud-boys-reel-at-report-leader-was-a-rat" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">once worked as a police informant about a decade ago</a>. In one message, Tarrio compares Moms for Liberty to the “gestapo with vaginas.”</p></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div><div class="long-formbody-group" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px; margin: auto;"><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">Tarrio was ousted soon after he was revealed as an informant, but Jiménez-Hincapie continued to collaborate with the local Proud Boys chapter, declaring in a message that she was “friends & loyal with Vice City.”</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">Jiménez-Hincapie also had a relationship with Chris Barcenas, one member of the local Proud Boys chapter who was part of the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Proud Boys group that&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/MIAagainstFash/status/1532048693972574212" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">broke police lines on Jan. 6th</span></a>.</span>&nbsp;Jiménez-Hincapie admitted in a July 2022 Telegram post that they “went out a couple of times” over a period of several months.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">Jiménez-Hincapie dismissed her group’s links to the Proud Boys, telling VICE News that “right leaning organizations congregate in common core events for the common mission.” She refused to answer any other questions.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><b>The national office of Moms for Liberty did not respond to multiple requests for comment,</b>&nbsp;including emails with detailed lists of questions about the group’s links to extremists. C<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">aballero also sent a registered letter, viewed by VICE News, informing Moms for Liberty leaders about Jiménez-Hincapie’s online harassment campaigns and close links to the Proud Boys. She said she never heard back from them.&nbsp;</span></p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Miami-Dade chapter of Moms for Liberty has also been fairly successful at accomplishing their goals. Earlier this month, the group took credit for&nbsp; filing the complaint that led to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-mom-behind-amanda-gorman-book-ban-has-proud-boy-links" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">the removal</span></a><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;of The Hill We Climb</em>, a book adaptation of the poem Amanda Gorman recited at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, from a school library.&nbsp;</span>The group has also&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article272583941.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">successfully lobbied Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis</span></a>&nbsp;to include one of the liberal school board members in Miami Dade in his list of 14 school board seats he is targeting in next year’s elections.</span></p></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div><div class="long-formbody-group" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px; margin: auto;"><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">After breaking with the group, Caballero said her business was targeted with negative reviews and threatening messages were sent to her employees; Caballero believes, based on messages shared in Telegram groups she was a part of, that the harassment came from Moms for Liberty and the Proud Boys.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Caballero took out multiple restraining orders against Jiménez-Hincapie and others who were harassing her online, and, according to Caballero, only in recent weeks have the attacks subsided somewhat.</span></p></span><div class="articlebody-heading" data-component="HeadingBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 class="articlebody-headingheading heading2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 30px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Other extremist links</span></h2></div><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">Across the country, Moms for Liberty chapters have forged close relationships with other far-right extremist groups. When Tonya Dodd posted a picture to Facebook of the first meeting of the Moms for Liberty chapter she leads in Chattanooga last month, she knew almost immediately that she’d made a mistake. “Oops, this was supposed to be on my personal Facebook,” Dodd wrote in a comment under the picture, which remains on the public Chattanooga Moms for Liberty page.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">Sitting alongside Dodd and half-a-dozen other members of the Moms for Liberty group is&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bobby Bean, a member of the Proud Boys who was at the U.S. Capitol during the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. His identity isn’t hidden at all in the photo Dodd posted; in it, Bean is wearing a baseball hat with the Proud Boys insignia.</span></p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">Bean’s presence at the meeting was first spotted by the Chattanooga-based open source researcher known a<b>s Trash City&nbsp;</b>who has been tracking the close ties between the local Moms for Liberty chapter and extremist groups like the Proud Boys.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Now, the researcher, who has seen members of these groups organizing online, believes that the groups are not only&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3gnq/what-is-moms-for-liberty" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">coordinating to disrupt school board meetings</span></a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ezek/moms-for-liberty-book-banning-lgbtq" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">harass those who oppose their far-right agenda</span></a>, but the extremist groups are also beginning to infect the Moms for Liberty members with their own ideology.</span></p></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div><div class="long-formbody-group" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px; margin: auto;"><blockquote data-component="QuoteBlock" class="abcquote abcquote--pullquote" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-left: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-hed); font-weight: var(--font-weight-hed-bold); font-size: var(--font-size-h2); line-height: var(--line-height-body-normal);">Across the country, Moms for Liberty chapters have forged close relationships with other far-right extremist groups.</p></blockquote><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In Florida, when Gov. Ron DeSantis signed his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3vqj/ron-desantis-just-expanded-floridas-dont-say-gay-law" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">controversial “Don’t Say Gay”</span></a>&nbsp;bill, he asked Moms for Liberty member Alicia Farrant to speak about her role in getting the book&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gender Queer</em>&nbsp;banned from the Orange County School District.</span></p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">“I knew I could not remain silent, so I partnered with my friend<b>&nbsp;Jacob Engels, who is part of the LGB[T] community</b>&nbsp;and also a reporter, who helped me expose the book at one of our school board meetings,” Farrant, who is now a school board member in Orange County, said at the press conference in March 2022.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">What Farrant failed to tell the assembled reporters that day was that&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Engels is a member of the Proud Boys, an acolyte of Roger Stone, and a notorious figure in Florida’s far-right community.</span></p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">When asked by VICE News about her relationship to Engels, Farrant did not respond.&nbsp;<b>Engels told VICE News that he has never been a member of the Proud Boys and was a journalist “simply documenting the [Proud Boys] organization over the years</b>.”&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When asked why he was pictured as part of a group of Proud Boys while wearing the distinctive uniform of a black and yellow Fred Perry t-shirt, Engels said:”I have been wearing Fred Perry for years, long before Proud Boys adopted it as a look.</span>”</p></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div><div class="long-formbody-group" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px; margin: auto;"><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">The year prior, at a school board meeting in 2021 in Orange County, Florida, some activists said that Moms for Liberty brought in members of the Three Percenters.&nbsp;</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“In September 2021 Moms for Liberty did bring some Three Percenters to the school board meeting and it broke out into this huge fight in the middle of the meeting,</span>” Jen Cousins, the founder of the Florida Freedom to Read Project, told VICE News. “The board left the dias until everybody calmed down.&nbsp;<b>But one of the Three Percenter guys came over and started berating me for shoes because I had rainbow shoe laces.”&nbsp;</b></p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Many of the Moms for Liberty members—and at least one leader—also espouse QAnon conspiracy theories. Jiménez-Hincapie openly boosted QAnon conspiracies on her Telegram channel, declaring that she had “followed Q” for years.&nbsp;</span></p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><a href="https://eu.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2022/03/14/gov-ron-desantis-appoints-esther-byrd-florida-board-education/7034660001/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Esther Byrd</a>, another Moms for Liberty member,&nbsp;<a href="https://eu.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2022/03/14/gov-ron-desantis-appoints-esther-byrd-florida-board-education/7034660001/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">was appointed</a>&nbsp;by DeSantis to the Florida Board of Education last March despite the fact she had tweeted support of QAnon conspiracies and even&nbsp;<a href="https://floridapolitics.com/archives/371924-hd-11-proud/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">flown a QAnon flag on her boat in 2021</a>.&nbsp;</p></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div><div class="long-formbody-group" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px; margin: auto;"><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">And in Tennessee, the Chattanooga chapter of Moms for Liberty has close ties with a far-right sovereign citizen group known as Tennessee Neighbors for Liberty. Many members belong to both groups, according to Trash City, the local researcher who infiltrated the sovereign citizen Facebook group.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">Responding to critics on her radio show last year, Jamie Pappu Hall, who co-leads the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tennessee Neighbors for Liberty group with her mother,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Chattanooga/comments/xvkxgk/on_their_noogaradio_927_show_yesterday_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">denied the group was calling for violence</span></a>&nbsp;but in the same breath added: “In fact we have people who are ready for war. Because we are in a war of good versus evil. And historically, to win that war, it becomes an actual civil war.”</span></p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the same radio broadcast, Hall denied knowing any Proud Boys and said her group was not aligned with the militia—though she was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Chattanooga/comments/ybubr1/chattanoogas_jamie_pappu_hall_cohost_of_common/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">photographed alongside</span></a>&nbsp;members of the group who were flashing a white supremacist sign at an anti-trans rally in Nashville last November.</span></p></span><blockquote data-component="QuoteBlock" class="abcquote abcquote--pullquote" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-left: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-hed); font-weight: var(--font-weight-hed-bold); font-size: var(--font-size-h2); line-height: var(--line-height-body-normal);">“In fact we have people who are ready for war. Because we are in a war of good versus evil. And historically, to win that war, it becomes an actual civil war.”</p></blockquote></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div><div class="long-formbody-group" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px; margin: auto;"><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">Pappu Hall did not respond to VICE News’ request for comment.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And in Pike County, Pennsylvania, the local Moms for Liberty chapter has close ties to another extremist group:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwep53/we-spent-a-wild-weekend-with-the-gun-worshipping-moonie-church-thats-trying-to-go-maga" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Rod of Iron Ministries</span></a>, the MAGA-loving religious sect that worships with AR-15s, whose leader was tear gassed during the Capitol riot, and which has close ties to multiple other far-right and Christian nationalist groups.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">Rod of Iron Ministries, also known as The World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, is run by Pastor Hyung Jin&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwep53/we-spent-a-wild-weekend-with-the-gun-worshipping-moonie-church-thats-trying-to-go-maga" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">“Sean” Moon</a>. The gun-centric religious sect is a spinoff of the much larger Unification Church, run by Moon’s father, whose followers were known as the “Moonies.”</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">At the beginning of&nbsp; the COVID-19 pandemic, Moon and his supporters began attending school board meetings to oppose <b>mask mandates and school closure</b></span><b>s.&nbsp;</b></p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"I&nbsp;have been fighting Sean Moon's gun cult for 10 years, and now he was in the halls where my kids learn,” Amanda Pauley, a local parent and activist, told VICE News about seeing Moon at a school board meeting, adding: “It was obvious that they were really prepared at this meeting, more so than any other meetings. Every single person had a speech to read. They all walked in at the same time. The whole room clapped and cheered.”</span></p></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div><div class="long-formbody-group" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px; margin: auto;"><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><b>The crowd responded to Moon’s speech, during which he called America “the least racist country on the planet,</b>” with loud cheers and applause. One man sitting close by leaned over and shook Moon’s hand as he sat back down.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">Sean Moon and the Rod of Iron Ministries did not respond to VICE News’ request for comment.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">At the time Moon spoke at the board meeting, there was no Moms for Liberty group active in Pike County, but a chapter formed in November 2022 just weeks after the majority conservative board voted against&nbsp;<a href="https://eu.poconorecord.com/story/news/education/2022/03/14/community-debates-book-bans-delaware-valley-school-district-board-meeting-pike-county-poconos/9452405002/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">an effort to ban “pornographic” books in the district</a>. One of the leading members is Kerry Williams, who has close ties to the Rod of Iron Ministries.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">Williams attends school board meetings on behalf of Moms for Liberty, and is one of the administrators for the Facebook page for the Pike County Moms for Liberty chapter. She has also spoken at the Rod of Iron Ministries events in the past and has even hosted a podcast for the gun-worshiping church that&nbsp;<a href="https://sanctuary.audio/2017-05-14-sunday-service-with-kerry-williams" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">relayed parts of the church’s Sunday service</a>. During some Sunday services, she can be seen on the altar where she is referred to as “Queen Kerry.” Williams did not respond to VICE News’ request for comment.&nbsp;</p></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div><div class="long-formbody-group" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px; margin: auto;"><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">And just like Moms for Liberty has backed candidates for local elections, the Rod of Iron Ministries is following suit, running handpicked candidates not only for school board elections, but for county commissioner and town supervisor positions.</p></span><blockquote data-component="QuoteBlock" class="abcquote abcquote--pullquote" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-left: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-hed); font-weight: var(--font-weight-hed-bold); font-size: var(--font-size-h2); line-height: var(--line-height-body-normal);">"<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">My kids have been a target. My son has been called a pedophile and a groomer. He's 17 years old,” Pauley said.</span></p></blockquote><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">Pauley is a member of the activist group Red, Wine and Blue, and has been vocal in calling out the activities of Moms for Liberty and other extremist groups in her district. As a result,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ezek/moms-for-liberty-book-banning-lgbtq" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">like the others standing up to the group</a>, she and her family have been harassed.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">"My kids have been a target. My son has been called a pedophile and a groomer. He's 17 years old,” Pauley said.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">She also recounted an incident a few months ago with her 11-year-old daughter when they were verbally attacked by someone who has campaigned for Moms for Liberty candidates in local elections.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“A mom walked into the shop with her daughter, a little bit older than mine, and said 'Oh look the pedophile queen is here.'&nbsp; She shouted it so my daughter instantly went to the next aisle to hide her face,” Pauley said. “The woman told an older couple to keep their children away from me, that I was a pedophile and groomer. My daughter was hysterical, crying. Pauley said she had seen the same woman at events hosted by the Rod of Iron Ministries.</span></p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">These connections appear to only be growing.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In Florida, Moms for Liberty have been&nbsp;<a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/ron-desantis-moms-for-liberty-florida-book-bans.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">linked to the far-right Constitutional Sheriffs movement</span></a></span>; in Buck’s County, Pennsylvania, the group has ties to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/story/news/2021/08/24/group-calls-off-plans-gather-before-central-bucks-district-meeting-after-militia-fears-spread-online/8239862002/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">the far-right<b>&nbsp;Patriots Network militia</b></span></a><b>;</b>&nbsp;and in northern Kentucky, a local Moms for Liberty chapter brought in Pastor Jon Schrock, who is affiliated with the far-right&nbsp;<b>John Birch Society, to talk to its members about defunding public education.</b></p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At the event, Schrock shared the oft-repeated conspiracy that elementary school teachers are pushing critical race theory. Teaching social and emotional learning (SEL) is, according to Schrock, tantamount to emotionally manipulating children. He’s also claimed that math is racist. “Two plus two can equal broccoli,” Schrock said, in a video recording of the presentation viewed by VICE News</span>.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ultimately, Schrock got around to telling the Moms for Liberty his main recommendation:&nbsp;<b>Pastors should replace teachers in an education system that is rooted in Christian fundamentalism. “Because public school teachers are grooming your kids for sex trafficking.”&nbsp;</b></span></p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">Schrock did not respond to VICE News’ request for comment.</p></span><span class="abctextblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px auto 30px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 640px;">“There is a direct link between Moms for Liberty and other anti-American groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers,” Karen Svboda, the co-founder of&nbsp;<b>Defense of Democracy,</b>&nbsp;an activist group countering Moms for Liberty, told VICE News.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“We are concerned that the connections between these groups will go quickly from acts of verbal terrorism and harassment to physical acts of violence. 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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Politics</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The anti-quarantine protests seem spontaneous. But behind the scenes, a powerful network is helping.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Protests with honking horns, anti-shutdown signs and angry Americans continued in Maryland, Texas and Wisconsin on April 18. (The Washington Post)]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Isaac Stanley-Becker</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tony Romm</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>April 22, 2020</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The ads on Facebook sounded populist and passionate: “The people are rising up against these insane shutdowns,” they said. “We’re fighting back to demand that our elected officials reopen America.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But the posts, funded by an initiative called Convention of States, were not the product of a grass-roots uprising alone. Instead, they represented one salvo in a wide-ranging and well-</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">financed conservative campaign to undermine restrictions that medical experts say are necessary to contain the coronavirus — but that protesters call overkill and whose economic fallout could damage President Trump’s political prospects.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A network of right-leaning individuals and groups, aided by nimble online outfits, has helped incubate the fervor erupting in state capitals across the country. The activism is often organic and the frustration deeply felt, but it is also being amplified, and in some cases coordinated, by longtime conservative activists, whose robust operations were initially set up with help from Republican megadonors.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Protesters assemble near the Texas State Capitol during a recent demonstration April 18 in Austin.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>]</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The Convention of States project</b> launched in 2015 with a high-dollar donation from the family foundation of Robert Mercer, a billionaire hedge fund manager and Republican patron. It boasts past support from two members of the Trump administration — Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Ben Carson, secretary of housing and urban development.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It also trumpets a prior endorsement from Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida and a close Trump ally who is pursuing an aggressive plan to reopen his state’s economy. A spokesman for Carson declined to comment. Cuccinelli and DeSantis did not respond to requests for comment.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The initiative, aimed at curtailing federal power, is now leveraging its sweeping national network and digital arsenal to help stitch together scattered demonstrations across the country, making opposition to stay-at-home orders appear more widespread than is suggested by polling.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We’re providing a digital platform for people to plan and communicate about what they’re doing,” said Eric O’Keefe, board president of Citizens for Self-Governance, the parent organization of the Convention of States project.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A longtime associate of the conservative activist Koch family, O’Keefe helped manage David Koch’s 1980 bid for the White House when he served as the No. 2 on the Libertarian ticket.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“To shut down our rural counties because of what’s going on in New York City, or in some sense Milwaukee, is draconian,” said O’Keefe, who lives in Wisconsin.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Polls suggest most Americans support local directives encouraging them to stay at home as covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, ravages the country, killing more than 44,000 people in the United States so far. Public health officials, including epidemiologists advising Trump’s White House, agree that sweeping restrictions represent the most effective mitigation strategy in the absence of a vaccine, which could be more than a year away.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">White House aides, outside groups launch effort to reopen economy</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Still, some activists insist that states should lift controls on commercial activity and public assembly, citing the effects of mass closures on businesses. They have been encouraged at times by Trump, whose attorney general, William P. Barr, said in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday that the Justice Department would consider supporting lawsuits against restrictions that go “too far.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Further afield, the protests have been encouraged by some of the president’s allies outside the White House, including Stephen Moore, once considered for a top post at the Federal Reserve.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The swelling frustration on the right coincides with major policy changes in some states, especially those with Republican governors. Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee have begun relaxing their restrictions in recent days after bowing to pressure and imposing far-reaching guidelines.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The protests are reminiscent in some ways of the tea party movement and the demonstrations against the Affordable Care Act that erupted in 2010, which also involved a mix of homegrown activism and shrewd behind-the-scenes funding.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Convention of States</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, public health is an unusual focus. </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It was founded to push for a convention that would add a ­balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. That same anti-government impulse is now animating the group’s campaign against coronavirus precautions.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Heavy-handed government orders that interfere with our most basic liberties will do more harm than good,” read its Facebook ads, which had been viewed as many as 36,000 times as of Tuesday evening.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Asking for a $5 donation “to support our fight,” the paid posts are part of an online blitz called “Open the States,” which also includes newly created websites, a data-collecting petition and an ominous video about the economic effects of the lockdown.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The group’s president, Mark Meckler, said his aim was to act as a “clearinghouse where these guys can all find each other” — a role he learned as co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots. FreedomWorks, a libertarian advocacy group also active in the tea party movement, is seeking to play a similar function, creating an online calendar of protests.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The major need back in 2009 was no different than it is today — some easy centralizing point to list events, to allow people to communicate with each other,” he said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Meckler, who draws a salary of about $250,000 from the Convention of States</b> parent group, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, according to filings with the Internal Revenue Service, hailed the “spontaneous citizen groups self-organizing on the Internet and protesting what they perceive to be government overreach.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So far, the protests against stay-at-home orders in states including Washington and Pennsylvania have captured headlines and drawn rebukes from some governors and epidemiologists. Experts say a sudden, widespread reopening of the country is likely to worsen the outbreak, overwhelming hospitals and killing tens of thousands.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The protesters so far have not aimed their ire at Trump, though it is his administration’s experts whose guidelines underlie many of the states’ actions.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump’s public comments — including his recent tweets calling for supporters to “liberate” states including Michigan, a coronavirus hot spot — have catalyzed some of the broader public reaction. Following those tweets, tens of thousands of people joined Facebook groups calling for protests in states including Pennsylvania and Ohio, where the efforts are coordinated by a trio of brothers who typically focus their efforts on fighting gun control.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pro-gun activists using Facebook groups to push anti-quarantine protests</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In recent days, conservatives have set their sights on Wisconsin, where a few dozen protesters turned out at the Capitol to air their frustrations with Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, after he extended his state’s stay-at-home order until late May. Ahead of the demonstration, Moore, the Trump ally, revealed on a live stream that he was “working with a group” in the state with the goal of trying “to shut down the capital.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Moore, who served as a Trump campaign adviser in 2016</b>, said he had located a big donor to aid in the effort, though he never elaborated. “I told him about this, and he said, ‘Steve, I promise to pay the bail and legal fees for anyone who gets arrested,’?” Moore said in the video. He likened his quest to the civil rights movement, adding, “We need to be the Rosa Parks here and protest against these government injustices.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Moore, who has also worked at the right-leaning Heritage Foundation, did not respond to a request for comment.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In Michigan, among those organizing “Operation Gridlock” was Meshawn Maddock, who sits on the Trump campaign’s advisory board and is a prominent figure in the “Women for Trump” coalition. Funds to promote the demonstrations on Facebook came from the Michigan Freedom Fund, which is headed by Greg McNeilly, a longtime adviser to the family of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">McNeilly said the money used to advance the anti-quarantine protests came from “grass-roots fundraising efforts” and had “nothing to do with any DeVos work.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Many of the seemingly scattered, spontaneous outbursts of citizen activism reflect deeply interwoven networks of conservative and libertarian nonprofit organizations. One of the most vocal groups opposing the lockdown in Texas is an Austin-based conservative think tank called the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which also hails the demonstrations nationwide.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Some Americans are angry,” its director wrote in an op-ed promoted on Facebook and placed in the local media, telling readers in Texas about the achievements of protesters in Michigan.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The board vice chairman of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, oil executive Tim Dunn, is also a founding board member of the group promoting the Convention of States initiative. And the foundation’s former president, Brooke Rollins, now works as an assistant to Trump in the Office of American Innovation.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Neither Dunn nor Rollins responded to requests for comment.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The John Hancock Committee for the States — the name used in IRS filings by the group behind the Convention of States — gave more than $100,000 to the Texas Public Policy Foundation in 2011.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Convention of States project, meanwhile, has received backing from DonorsTrust, a tax-exempt financial conduit for right-wing causes that does not disclose its contributors. The same fund has helped bankroll the Idaho Freedom Foundation, which is encouraging protests of a stay-at-home order imposed by the state’s Republican governor, Brad Little.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Disobey Idaho,” say its Facebook ads, which use an image of the “Join or Die” snake woodcut emblematic of the Revolutionary War and later adopted by the tea party movement.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2014, the year before it launched the Convention of States initiative, Citizens for Self-Governance received $500,000 from the Mercer Family Foundation, a donation Meckler said helped jump-start the campaign. Mercer declined to comment.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While groups and individual activists associated with the Koch brothers have boosted this far-flung network, Emily Seidel, the chief executive of the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity advocacy group, sought to distance the organization from the protest activity, which she said was “not the best way” to “get people back to work.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Instead, we are working directly with policymakers, to bring business leaders and public health officials together to help develop standards to safely reopen the economy without jeopardizing public health,” Seidel said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But others see linkages to groups pushing anti-quarantine uprisings.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“The involvement of the Koch institutional apparatus in groups supporting these protests is clear to me,</b>” said Robert J. Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University whose research has focused on climate lobbying. “The presence of allies on the board usually means that they are deeply engaged in the organization and most likely a funder.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Brulle said the blowback against the coronavirus precautions carries echoes of efforts to deny climate change, both of which rely on hostility toward government action.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“These are extreme right-wing efforts to delegitimize government,” he said. “It’s an anti-government crusade.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div>Seminole County, Florida school board has been holding a marathon meeting on masks, which started Thursday at 8:30 AM, and is still going on after nearly nine hours. While there were many anti-science extremists, one parent's speech stood out.</div><div>
</div><div>A man who identified himself as Jeff James declared "there are more variants planned," the vaccine is "not a vaccine it's an experimental drug," called mask mandates "charades," and falsely claimed that "masks don't work."</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>"Masks are pretty much a device to enslave children, make them obedient, so they just learn to obey and not think for themselves. We need critical thinking. We don't need children that are going to be little puppets that don't say anything to speak out for themselves. We need leaders not followers."</div><div>
</div><div>But James did not stop there.</div><div>
</div><div><b>"The deep state medical establishment </b>wants all of us to be depopulated," he declared, before announcing his support for far right wing doctors whose anti-vaxx and science denialism have been repeatedly debunked. "I know you guys think that's a conspiracy theory but it's not. It's a conspiracy fact, they're all in cahoots with each other, to depopulate us, they want us divided. They want all of us to fight each other so they can win," he said, without actually explaining who "they" are....</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">721 badash ncrm</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">for weeks&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Fox+News" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Fox News</strong></a>&nbsp;has been ramping up its anti-vaxx attacks on the U.S. public, even using medical doctors and its own hosts to spread false claims, disinformation, and doubt about the COVID-19 vaccines.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Monday morning in a surprise move one Fox News host actually urged Americans to get vaccinated – to the anger of another,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Brian+Kilmeade" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Brian Kilmeade</strong></a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"If you didn't get a vaccination, that's your choice," Kilmeade told "Fox & Friends" viewers Monday morning. "And if you did, like I did, and they did," he added, revealing the vaccination status of his two co-hosts, "and maybe you did, then you should not wear a mask."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"And if you didn't" get the coronavirus vaccine, "and you want to go cliff diving this weekend, you don't have to check with me. It's a little dangerous, but I'm not going to judge you."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"And if you go and put yourself in danger, if you feel that this is not something for you," Kilmeade said of getting vaccinated, "don't do it, but don't affect my life."</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kilmeade revealed to Fox News viewers that he has yet to understand that anyone who is not vaccinated poises a potential threat to not only those who have yet to get vaccinated, but to those who have – as breakthrough cases are being seen given that the vaccine is close to but not 100% effective. They also create a greater likelihood of new and potentially even more deadly coronavirus variants will develop.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"99% of the people who are dying from COVID are unvaccinated," co-host Steve Doocy interjected, as Kilmeade appeared to roll his eyes.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"That's their choice," Kilmeade, a 57-year old father of three insisted.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"They don't want to die," retorted Doocy, in a rare smack-down of his colleague. "So they are, the administration and the government are saying, we need the mask mandate to protect the unvaccinated."</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kilmeade, who has written five books on the Founders and American history, almost prayerfully clasped his hands together and declared falsely, "That's not their job, it's not their job to protect anybody!"</font></p><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">--</font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/la-county-sheriff/">https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/la-county-sheriff/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is refusing to enforce a mask mandate because he claims it is "not backed by science."</b>&nbsp;On Friday, July 16, Villanueva&nbsp;<a href="https://www.axios.com/la-sheriff-mask-mandate-not-backed-science-90070bd8-7a12-4fe5-8453-65f5415d7feb.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">released a statement pushing back against the proposed mandate</a>&nbsp;as he offered specifics about why he opposes masks for certain people, according to Axios.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"Forcing the vaccinated and those who already contracted COVID-19 to wear masks indoors is not backed by science and contradicts the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines," Villanueva&nbsp;</b><a href="https://lasd.org/la-county-health-officer-order-to-mask-while-indoors/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><b>said in the stateme</b>nt</a>.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While he did admit that the L.A. County Public Health Department does have the authority to enforce the measure, he made it clear his "underfunded/<b>defunded"</b>&nbsp;law enforcement agency will not be following suit.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) has authority to enforce the order, but the underfunded/defunded Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will not expend our limited resources<b>&nbsp;and instead ask for voluntary compliance,"&nbsp;</b>the statement continued. "We encourage the DPH to work collaboratively with the Board of Supervisors and law enforcement to establish mandates that are both achievable and supported by science."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The county mask mandate comes as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the area. As of Thursday, July 15, the county's seven-day COVID case average jumped to 1,077. 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">david n kos</font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One of the consequences of the GOP's sidelong embrace of its extremist elements—from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/12/2030221/-Republicans-double-down-on-gaslighting-narrative-in-House-hearing-It-was-not-an-insurrection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">insurrection denialists</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/21/2031502/-The-Big-Lie-isn-t-something-Republicans-are-interested-in-investigating-because-they-made-it" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Big Lie gaslighters</a>&nbsp;to the QAnon cultists like&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/24/2031855/-Crickets-from-Kevin-McCarthy-after-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-compared-mask-wearing-to-the-Holocaust" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/tags/LaurenBoebert" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Lauren Boebert</a>—is that far-right extremists are now perfectly comfortable identifying as Republicans. In some cases, they're demanding the overthrow of the party's establishment—which can't seem to decide whether to fight back or just succumb willingly to the incoming far-right tide.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Establishment Republicans in Western states are particularly under siege from extremist elements among their voting base.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><a href="https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article251599273.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">I<b>n Idaho</b></a><b>, for instance</b></span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">, armed-standoff-guru-turned-pandemic-denialist Ammon Bundy filed paperwork to run for governor,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in a race already featuring another leading state "Patriot" movement figure.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/activists-with-ties-to-proud-boys-may-seek-leadership-of-clark-county-gop-2360444/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">In&nbsp;</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/activists-with-ties-to-proud-boys-may-seek-leadership-of-clark-county-gop-2360444/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Nevada</a>,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;an insurgent far-right group organized on social media and led by P<b>roud Boys members are attempting an open hostile takeover of the Clark County GOP, the state's largest county-level Republican organization.</b></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bundy's filing is rich in irony. For starters, he is currently banned from the Idaho Statehouse in Boise after&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/26/1972626/-Bundy-s-anti-pandemic-antics-earn-him-two-ejections-from-Idaho-Statehouse-in-two-days" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">his two ejections and arrests</a>&nbsp;for defying masking requirements, for which he is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/16/2021350/-Facing-trial-for-Idaho-Statehouse-disruption-Ammon-Bundy-refuses-mask-is-arrested-once-again" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">currently standing trial</a>. For another,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/politics/ammon-bundy-run-idaho-governor/277-aa8a55c1-3998-42ba-958e-b7809547b6bc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">as KTVB notes</a>, Bundy himself is not even registered to vote in Idaho, and has apparently never done so in the five years or so that he has lived in Emmett.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He also named himself the treasurer of his campaign, which means that he will have to refile the paperwork, according to the Idaho Secretary of State's office, which&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/IDSecOfState/status/1395886582465392646" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">tweeted out an explanation</a>: "Because a treasurer must be a registered Idaho voter, Ammon Bundy will either need to register and refile or name a new treasurer by refiling. IDSOS staff have notified him as such."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The Republican field to replace incumbent Governor Brad Little (who has not announced whether he will seek re-election) is already large, and Bundy's competition in the primary already features another leading "Patriot" movement figure,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/19/2031242/-Idaho-s-conservative-governor-isn-t-crazy-enough-so-his-far-right-lt-governor-is-challenging-him" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Lieutenant Governor Janice McGeachin</a>,&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">who announced her candidacy last week. While Bundy was probably the earliest far-right figure in Idaho to take up the cause of&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/31/1932782/-Always-paranoid-Patriot-militiamen-push-back-against-coronavirus-social-isolation-measures" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">opposing COVID-19-related public-health restrictions</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, McGeachin—who has supported Bundy and his fellow standoff-loving "Patriots" steadfastly from her office in Boise—has also been on&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/29/1948687/-Militia-loving-lieutenant-governor-leads-fight-against-Idaho-s-stay-at-home-orders" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">the pandemic-denialist bandwagon</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McGeachin appeared&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/idahos-lt-gov-janice-mcgeachin-has-gone-rogue-over-coronavirus?ref=scroll" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">alongside Bundy</a>&nbsp;at one anti-restriction rally in Boise. More notoriously,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/30/idaho-covid-lieutenant-governor/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">she appeared in a</a>&nbsp;video in which she brandished a handgun and a Bible while sitting in the driver's seat of a pickup, railing against coronavirus restrictions.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The political insurgency inside</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">&nbsp;Clark County'</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s NV] GOP was reported Friday by&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/activists-with-ties-to-proud-boys-may-seek-leadership-of-clark-county-gop-2360444/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Rory Appleton at the&nbsp;<em>Las Vegas Review-Journal</em></a><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,&nbsp;</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">who explained that a group of far-right activists with deep ties to the&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Proud Boys are positioning themselves to take over the county Republican leadership. Some of its members, meanwhile, are alleged to have threatened a number of prominent Republicans.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The group, Appleton reported, organized online—primarily using the&nbsp;<b>encrypted chat app Telegram</b>—while reveling in anti-Semitic and white-nationalist memes and rhetoric. "Two Republican women in public office told the&nbsp;<em>Review-Journal</em>&nbsp;they've been threatened by leaders of the fringe movement, as did the current board of the Clark County party, which is hiring security for a crucial meeting Tuesday," the story reads.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Calling itself the "Republican Chamber of Commerce" (despite lacking ties to any known GOP organization), the far-right group first made its presence felt last month when it organized a late surge in votes favoring&nbsp;<a href="https://knpr.org/knpr/2021-04/lee-leaves-cegavske-censured-do-political-parties-matter-nevada" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">the censure of Barbara Cegavske</a>, the state's Republican Secretary of State, for refusing to play along with attempts to overturn the 2020 election results based on Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Since then, it has been preparing to provide a similar wave of votes to sweep three of their three leading figures—Rudy Clai, Matt Anthony and Paul Laramie—into the leadership of the Clark County GOP</b>. The group has no record of doing business anywhere in the state of Nevada, and has no connection to any of the known chamber or Republican groups already established in Nevada.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet its website appears to be a nominally mainstream GOP group. Its primary emblem resembles the Republican National Committee's logo but inverted, with a red elephant on a white background encircled in red with the letters "RCC" and "Republican Chamber of Commerce" within.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Anthony has achieved a level of media notoriety as one of Las Vegas'&nbsp;<a href="https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/a-post-insurrection-pep-talk-from-a-las-vegas-proud-boy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">most prominent Proud Boys</a></b>, though he insists the local chapter is nonviolent and nonracist. After the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection,&nbsp;<a href="https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/a-post-insurrection-pep-talk-from-a-las-vegas-proud-boy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">he defended the people arrested</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>warned against a law-enforcement crackdown on "Patriots": "They're basically going all in on tyranny, guys. … They're watching. It's to be expected. They're the enemy. They're going to shut down our ability to communicate."</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As it happens, Anthony is also a fugitive: He is the subject of an arrest warrant from the state of Michigan after he broke probation by moving to Nevada and then refusing to return after Nevada declined to oversee his probation, all stemming from his 2012 arrest on a drug charge</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The group's Telegram channel—owned by Anthony, and administered by Clai—is titled&nbsp;<b style="">"Keep Nevada Open,"</b>&nbsp;apparently an offshoot of a Facebook group with the same name that boasted 17,000 members and organized anti-masking and other pandemic-related protests.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Appleton describes a review of the channel's contents by the Clark County GOP executive board, led by chief of staff Richard MacLean:</span></font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 40px 1em -5px; border-left: 4px solid rgb(11, 13, 101); line-height: 32px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; width: 602.543px; background: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MacLean showed his fellow board members several pictures and videos posted within the group, though not specifically by Anthony and Clai.

<b>One photo blamed the 9/11 terrorist bombings on Jews. Another video featured a long clip of an Adolf Hitler speech and Nazi soldier marches. Some featured cartoon characters with negative Jewish stereotypes, and one photo featured messages written on dollar bills.</b>

A post even poked fun at Republicans, claiming they seemed to be shocked at certain current events while white nationalists were thrilled by them.
</font></blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The board promptly ejected the three men from the party. However, on Thursday, 10 people including&nbsp;<b>Anthony and Clai filed a lawsuit&nbsp;</b>against both the county and state party central committees, accusing them of illegally boxing them out of Clark County GOP meetings. They claim Clai and Anthony are heading up an alternative leadership slate, and are running against a mainstream ticket headed up by state Sen. Carrie Buck.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite the pushback by local Republican officials, the extremist elements remain emboldened in no small part because national-level Republicans have shown their eagerness to ignore the radicalism and even embrace it. Certainly, the local far-right leaders are confident that the party's base supports them, and not the establishment players.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We have the numbers, and they don't, so they have to play dirty," Anthony said in an interview Thursday. "It's that simple."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.idahostatesman.com/article251510548.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">McGeachin's campaign signs</a>&nbsp;feature the hashtag #IAmIdaho. "Ladies and gentlemen, we are at a pivotal moment in history, not just for Idaho but for our nation," McGeachin said.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Bundy&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/noted-anti-government-activist-ammon-bundy-running-governor-idaho-n1268317" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">told NBC News</a>&nbsp;on Monday that, despite the filings, he hasn't formally announced his candidacy, but is preparing to build a campaign organization.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"The people of Idaho are very freedom-minded," Bundy said. 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</font></div><div><p align="left" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong></strong></font></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no twt pix dress all blk looks like skater chick</font></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)is leading the charge among House Republicans to refuse to follow Speaker Nancy Pelosi's rule continuing the mask mandate, with at least a dozen far right lawmakers flouting their obligation.</font></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>"Masks are oppressive and nothing but a political tool. End the oppression!" Greene tweeted Tuesday.</b></font></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As with many issues from the far right House members, they are literally the cause of their own issues. The House mask mandate has remained in place because, according to CNN, less than half of the House members say they are vaccinated. One hundred percent of House Democrats are, the unvaccinated are all Republicans.</font></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Forbes' Andrew Solender reports<b>&nbsp;among those refusing to wear masks on the House floor are "some of the House's most vocal right-wingers: Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Laure Boebert (R-Colo.), Mary Miller (R-Ill.), Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), Chip Roy (R-Texas), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas)."</b></font></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The hypocrisy isn't limited to refusing to be vaccinated.</font></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, according to Solender, "says he 'got into it' with the GOP lawmakers and joked that they are pro-choice when they told him the mandate is a 'violation of their right to decide for themselves.'"</b></font></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They replied 'absolutely not, it's a totally different thing,' he says."</font></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The U.S. is approaching 34 million cases of COVID-19, and just passed 600,000 coronavirus deaths.</font></p></div><div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">note how right is victim and must defend ~ aggressors (who actually aren't doing anything to them?!)</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">in the real world, there are real problems that serious people are worried about: global pandemic, climate change, economic inequality, systematic racism, mass shootings, and gendered violence, just to name a few. The problem for Republicans, of course, is that they are, quite literally, on the wrong side of pretty much each of those issues, and spend their time either actively making problems worse or getting in the way of people who want to fix things. Outside of sociopaths, Fox News hosts, and people with "Pepe" memes in their Twitter profiles, however, few people want to look in the mirror and see a villain gazing back at them. So right-wing media, which has always been addicted to selling its audiences on imaginary threats and preposterous fairy tales of conservative victimhood, has only been escalating such nonsense in recent months as the Republican policy agenda has been increasingly exposed to be nonexistent.</font></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If your "team" is on the side of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/04/06/republican-delusion--not-disinformation--is-the-bigger-danger-to-american-democracy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Capitol insurrectionists</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/04/27/tucker-carlson-the-chauvin-verdict-and-the-burden-of-white-civilization/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Derek Chauvin</a>, it's hard to&nbsp;<a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/are-we-the-baddies" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">suppress the haunting fear that you're the baddies</a>. So Fox News is on hand to spoon out alluring fantasies that recast liberals as the bad guys and conservatives as the long-suffering heroes.<b>&nbsp;Tucker Carlson — a Fox News host who clearly relishes being a cartoon villain (think: "<a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/04/24/tucker-carlsons-college-yearbook-contains-apparent-reference-to-harvey-milks-murderer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Dan White Society</a>") — coughed up an almost too-perfect sample of the form Monday night, when&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/04/27/tucker-carlson-tells-his-fox-news-audience-to-call-the-police-if-they-see-children-wearing-masks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">he encouraged his audience of millions to harass ordinary people</a>&nbsp;minding their own business under the guise of "helping."</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Using as cover the recent reports that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/are-outdoor-mask-mandates-still-necessary/618626/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">much of outdoor masking is unnecessary to prevent the transmission of COVID-19</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-tells-fox-viewers-to-call-the-cops-if-they-see-kids-wearing-masks-outdoors" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Carlson told his audience</a>&nbsp;that people wearing masks outside are "<b>the aggressors" and that "the next time you see someone in a mask on the sidewalk or on the bike path, do not hesitate" to get in their face and demand they remove the mask</b>.</span>&nbsp;Carlson claimed this can be done "politely but firmly," but of course, it's categorically impossible to "politely" boss other people around about choices that simply do not affect you. A<b>nd no, his story about how masks "prevent intimacy and human contact" is not enough</b>. Strangers on the street do not owe you "intimacy," despite what creeps who follow women around and demand smiles might wish to believe.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Carlson then escalated by asking his viewers to call the police when they see children wearing masks because it "should be illegal</b>."<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">&nbsp;["child abuse" call cops and cps till they show]&nbsp;</span>Of course, Carlson also knows full well how dangerous such nuisance calls (<a href="https://www.greghillassociates.com/what-happens-if-i-made-a-false-911-call-jail-prison.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">which are&nbsp;<em>actually</em>&nbsp;illegal</a>) can be if the target is a person of color — and likely, he's counting on it,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/04/21/the-making-of-a-right-wing-martyr-conservatives-see-derek-chauvins-conviction-as-an-act-of-war/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Derek Chauvin defender that he is</a>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Skipping a mask outside does, indeed, seem to be mostly harmless, which means that the common-sense response is to simply leave other people alone while you also do what you want.<b>&nbsp;But conservatives want revenge because they've been made to wear masks where it is necessary. Carlson is only too happy to feed them a narrative that allows them to pretend to be heroes while continuing to be jerks for no good reason whatsoever.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the weekend, we saw another comically over-the-top example of right-wing fake victimhood narratives when a totally fake — and&nbsp;<em>obviously</em>&nbsp;fake — conspiracy theory about President Joe Biden imposing severe beef rations tore through the right-wing media and exploded on social media.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/04/26/plant-based-beer-and-beef-bans-how-larry-kudlow-set-off-a-right-wing-anti-biden-smear-campaign/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Jon Skolnik explained here at Salon</a>&nbsp;how right-wing media distorted a study about reducing meat consumption to impact climate change, pretended it somehow was part of Biden's infrastructure plan and ran wild with it.</b>&nbsp;But what was truly remarkable wasn't just that the folks at Fox News and other outlets deliberately misled the public with false claims that Biden planned to "limit" beef consumption to four pounds a year. It was how this lie managed to spread rapidly, infecting every corner of the country, in record time....</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/04/michigan-republican/">https://www.alternet.org/2021/04/michigan-republican/</a></font></div><div>wacko, same day joe CDC rolled back?</div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div><p>Paul made the remark...</p></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">121 mma</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.937px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">&nbsp;KIRK (HOST): Why is America still locked down? Why do we not have everything open, completely and totally, no mask mandates, make a decision as you see fit? If you're afraid of the virus, stay at home. This has been one of the most disappointing chapters in American history. How we have tolerated these lock downs that are anti-scientific, anti-human. We have people committing suicide, drug addiction. And, by the way, you go try to find accurate suicide data. You notice the states aren't publishing them? They're not publishing them because they're actually going to find out that more people, young people, are committing suicide than dying from the Chinese coronavirus. It is a disgrace and everyone's&nbsp;letting it happen.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.937px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">But we at Turning Point USA hosted the largest event of the entire year in Florida, we did an amazing job.</p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.937px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">So if you are not actively defying these state and city ordinances, you're part of the problem</p></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/01/15/capitol-riot-mob-anti-lockdown/">https://theintercept.com/2021/01/15/capitol-riot-mob-anti-lockdown/</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">S<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px, rgb(17, 17, 17) 0px 4px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">TUCK AT HOME</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">&nbsp;</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">last spring, newly furloughed or just newly bored, tens of thousands of Americans joined anti-lockdown groups on Facebook. Largely comfortable, mainly white people living in states from Oregon to Florida, the anti-lockdown converts initially railed against masks and restaurant closures, trading videos from demonstrations they attended at state Capitols. After Minneapolis police officers killed George Floyd in May, the anti-lockdown activists’ rhetoric took on toxic levels of racism and suspicion, their paranoia about vaccines mixing with paranoia about antifa. After the November election, they pivoted to hyping an insurrection.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">
</span></font></div><div data-reactid="217" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Anti-lockdown and anti-mask groups, which now count some&nbsp;<a href="https://www.irehr.org/covid19updates/dashboard-new-far-right-groups-on-facebook-protesting-stay-at-home-directives/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">3 million members</a>&nbsp;on Facebook, were a crucial recruiting ground for the “Stop the Steal” effort that culminated in the deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol on January 6</b>. “The ranks of ‘Stop the Steal’ groups were able to swell to hundreds of thousands almost overnight largely because they drew on this established base that had already been radicalized,” said<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">&nbsp;Devin Burghart, executive director of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, which documents far-right organizing and white nationalism.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Behind the Proud Boys,&nbsp;<a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/01/12/boogaloo-telegram-violence-recruit/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">boogaloo</a>&nbsp;proponents, and QAnon adherents&nbsp;who stormed the Capitol on January 6 were legions of others who started with a less ambitious gateway cause: that no politician should stand in the way of their right to order a steak on Saturday night.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>As the election fraud movement gained steam in the week following the election, Burghart and his colleagues counted 35,994 members of anti-lockdown groups who joined “Stop the Steal”-related groups.</b>&nbsp;That number is likely a severe undercount. The researchers were only able to catalog a portion of anti-lockdown supporters’ profiles, and even as they worked, Facebook was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.engadget.com/facebook-removes-pages-stop-the-steal-015041182.html?guccounter=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">taking down</a>&nbsp;“Stop the Steal” pages. But it became clear to Burghart that Covid-19 denialist groups were critical to the Capitol assault. Recruits from such groups far exceeded those who had previously joined Facebook militia groups or tea party groups. “We’re pretty confident that was just the tip of the iceberg, given the high presence of “Stop the Steal” rhetoric in anti-lockdown groups,” Burghart said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>AS Facebook expelled more blatantly undemocratic groups, the reopen groups took over their message.&nbsp;</b>Last week, members showed off photos and videos from the rallies in Washington, D.C., that preceded the Capitol siege as well as from the demonstrations that rocked state Capitols around the country.</font></span></p></div><div data-reactid="228" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among the anti-lockdown activists who showed up in Washington, D.C., on January 6 was Army Capt. Emily Rainey, a psychological operations officer. “Get off the bench,” she&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thepilot.com/news/local-army-officer-facing-review-over-role-in-d-c-protests/article_554fe398-542a-11eb-8bcf-875056fd527a.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">said</a>&nbsp;in a video that she posted to her Facebook page two days later, after Capitol sanitation workers had cleaned blood and feces off marble floors and statues. “<b>This is not an extracurricular activity. This is an existential activity. You need to start fighting.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A member of ReopenNC, a private group advocating reopening in North Carolina,&nbsp;Rainey has a history of coronavirus-related stunts. She&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/emily-rainey-army-investigation-capitol-5e3cd1ed9fc23269ce3b74ae55664d90" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">clashed with police</a>&nbsp;last spring after repeatedly tearing down the tape surrounding a playground that had been closed off because of stay-at-home orders. The Army is now investigating her for leading a group of people to the&nbsp;Washington, D.C., rally on January 6. Rainey&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/emily-rainey-army-investigation-capitol-5e3cd1ed9fc23269ce3b74ae55664d90" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">told&nbsp;</a><a href="https://apnews.com/article/emily-rainey-army-investigation-capitol-5e3cd1ed9fc23269ce3b74ae55664d90" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">the Associated Press</a><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</strong>that she did not enter the Capitol during the riot.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response to a request for comment, Facebook spokesperson Kristen Morea emailed a statement that reads: “We removed content and accounts that violated our policies against inciting violence and dangerous organizations in the lead up to January 6. We have put emergency measures into place and will continue to monitor activity on our platform in real time and remove anything that breaks our rules.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But&nbsp;at least<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</span>150<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</span>anti-lockdown groups reviewed by The Intercept&nbsp;remain active, and the chatter in&nbsp;some&nbsp;is openly&nbsp;violent</b>. In Reopen Minnesota, a private group with&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">38,000 members, people are calling for the state’s governor and attorney general to be&nbsp;<b><u>burned at the stake.</u></b>&nbsp;In Open Oregon, they are pledging to assault Gov. Kate Brown — to “squeeze her face shut” — and bring on bloodshed. “Governor Brown we are coming for YOU!” one person wrote on January 9. “God is in control. Trump isn’t done. The best is yet to come,” wrote another.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In ReopenNC, Rainey’s group, an administrator went&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/AshleyESmith77/videos/3732724930095908" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">live</a>&nbsp;on January 8 to urge her 87,000 followers to rise up. Her voice shook as she explained that she was preparing to migrate the group to another platform: “Stay the course. Hold the line. Don’t give up. This is not over yet.” She also&nbsp;said, apparently alluding to the violence at the Capitol: “A lot of important things happened in D.C. 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Photo: Paul Sancya/AP</p></div></div><div data-reactid="231" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px, rgb(17, 17, 17) 0px 4px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">THE&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ROUTE FROM</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;rejecting masks to rejecting the republic was more direct than it might seem. Although some&nbsp;spring anti-lockdown demonstrations consisted mainly of people in SUVs&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgZSZuWaREE" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">honking their horns</a>, other events were more threatening. On April 30 — days after President Donald Trump tweeted “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!”<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;—&nbsp;</strong>demonstrators armed with rifles entered the Michigan Capitol. In May they showed up again,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/05/14/855918852/heavily-armed-protesters-gather-again-at-michigans-capitol-denouncing-home-order" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">this time with signs</a>&nbsp;that compared Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to Hitler&nbsp;and others that&nbsp;read “Tyrants Get the Rope.” Whitmer would later became the subject of an elaborate&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wnem.com/news/breakdown-of-timeline-in-plot-against-michigan-governor/article_b9edd378-09d9-11eb-a268-9bdc611c3bc0.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">kidnapping plot</a>.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The early&nbsp;anti-lockdown protests were promoted and partially bankrolled by groups linked to the tea party.&nbsp;Other efforts were spearheaded by gun rights advocates and far-right rabble-rousers&nbsp;<a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/07/17/dorr-brothers-coronavirus-protests/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">the Dorr brothers</a>.</font></p></div><div class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo" data-reactid="232" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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border: 0px; max-width: 90px; height: auto;" /></font></a></div><div class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link-text" data-reactid="236" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link-eyebrow" data-reactid="237" kern="kern" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; font-kerning: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Related</font></h2><h3 class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link-title" data-reactid="238" kern="kern" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; font-kerning: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Masks Off: How the Brothers Who Fueled the Reopen Protests Built a Volatile Far-Right Network</font></h3></div></div><div data-reactid="239" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In May,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">authorities arrested a Colorado&nbsp;<a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/pr/northern-colorado-man-arrested-possessing-pipe-bombs" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">reopen protester</a>&nbsp;after investigators found four pipe bombs in his home. In June, federal prosecutors in Nevada&nbsp;<a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/federal-grand-jury-indicts-three-men-seeking-exploit-protests-las-vegas-and-incite" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">charged</a>&nbsp;three anti-lockdown activists for conspiring to blow up or set fire to U.S. government buildings. Armed men affiliated with the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia group, and other far-right groups also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.irehr.org/2020/06/04/dangerous-liaisons-some-in-law-enforcement-look-to-militia-groups/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">provided protection</a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eastoregonian.com/coronavirus/after-flouting-pandemic-restrictions-salem-salon-owner-continues-to-be-a-lightning-rod/article_44d9f844-ab4e-11ea-a23e-5b7229eda54d.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">hair salons</a>&nbsp;that defied business closure orders.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Along the way, the tone of the Facebook groups shifted</b>. Initially, some members clung to the notion that their cause was bipartisan. “Hey guys FYI this group isn’t just Trump supporters there are some democrats and independents here too,” someone posted in Reopen Minnesota on April 17. As they prepared to rally at the governor’s mansion, another asked people to “leave all your Trump gear at home,” writing: “This whole thing about getting our rights back is not about Trump.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But by summer, the Minnesota group was flooded with photos from Trump boat parades and rallies. By November, members spoke of Trump as the sole figure standing between the United States and communism.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although far-right, white supremacist, and militia groups have long&nbsp;<a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/09/29/police-white-supremacist-infiltration-fbi/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">flourished</a>&nbsp;in the United States, pandemic-related rage may have further grown their ranks, with social isolation making people more prone to radicalization. “You’ve got a need for community, and the need for community becomes about rejecting the lockdown, and that becomes the first principle of forming the community,” said&nbsp;<b>Alexander Reid Ross, a researcher at the Center for Analysis of the Radical Right and author of “Against the Fascist Creep.” “That is a recipe for disaster.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">People who may have started out concerned about local businesses stayed at home glued to screens, where they were exposed to ever more extreme content. “They stepped onto this conveyor belt and then were rapidly drawn into this world which filled them with more and more conspiracy theories and more and more reasons to go out and commit acts of violence,” said Burghart.&nbsp;<b>“That radicalization path is far more rapid today than it ever has been in the past. It used to take years to radicalize someone. 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Photo: Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman/AP</p></div></div><div data-reactid="242" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px, rgb(17, 17, 17) 0px 4px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">AMONG THOSE</span>&nbsp;easing the transition was far-right leader Ammon Bundy, infamous for his 2016 takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and his family’s earlier&nbsp;<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/16/the-bizarre-story-behind-the-fbis-fake-documentary-about-the-bundy-family/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">standoff</a>&nbsp;with the federal government in the Mojave Desert. In April 2020, he launched the group&nbsp;<a href="https://www.peoplesrights.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">People’s Rights</a>, whose purpose was&nbsp;to defy Covid-19-related health directives</span>. He soon expanded to include&nbsp;<b>anti-vaccine proponents,&nbsp;</b>growing the network in part on Facebook. In August, Bundy and his&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">maskless followers&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/08/25/906046911/ammon-bundy-is-arrested-and-wheeled-out-of-the-idaho-statehouse" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">stormed</a>&nbsp;the Idaho Capitol, foreshadowing the events of January 6.</span>&nbsp;“The government has no right to tell a person what they can put over their mouth,” Bundy later&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/how-ammon-bundy-helped-foment-an-anti-masker-rebellion-in-idaho" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">told</a>&nbsp;the New Yorker. On January 6, People’s Rights adherents fanned out to state Capitols and to Washington, D.C., posting videos of the events on Facebook afterward.&nbsp;<b>People’s Rights now has informal chapters in at least 16 states</b>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though the group has been banned from Facebook, many of its leaders remain&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/RubyLefeau" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">active</a>&nbsp;on the platform. Ruby Lefeau, a prominent People’s Rights organizer in Washington state, posted a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/RubyLefeau/videos/10225320266616776" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">video</a>&nbsp;from a car in&nbsp;Washington, D.C.,&nbsp;after the January 6 rally&nbsp;in which she said: “We left the Capitol because they’re starting to lock it up. We’re going to go drive around. Looks like we’re looking for the White House.” She added, apparently to the other passengers in the vehicle, “I’d be careful we don’t get arrested.” The banner photo on Lefeau’s Facebook&nbsp;is a&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/heartstarbear/status/1347299647224737794?s=20" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">digital flyer</a>&nbsp;that was widely circulated by the far right ahead of January 6.&nbsp;“Operation Occupy the Capitol,”&nbsp;it reads.</font></p></div><blockquote class="Pullquote Pullquote--right" data-reactid="243" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; margin: 2em -170px 2em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em; box-shadow: none; line-height: 1.125; float: right; max-width: 75%;"><span class="Pullquote-line" data-reactid="244" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; position: relative; bottom: -4px; width: 2em; height: 0.7em; margin-right: 0.3em; float: left; background-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><div data-reactid="245" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“That whole incident is white supremacists fighting for their lives so that they can keep their militarized police force suppressing and killing Black people. That is why they rose up. That is why they stormed the Capitol.”</font></div></span></blockquote><div data-reactid="246" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anti-lockdown&nbsp;leaders have told their followers that the next few weeks will be critical. “It’s at times like this when everybody has to decide what kind of man they are, what kind of woman they are,”&nbsp;<b>Ben Dorr, one of the Dorr brothers, said in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=234550451469937&ref=watch_permalink" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">a video</a>&nbsp;posted to Reopen Minnesota on January 8. “It forces people out of this comfort zone, and&nbsp;you’re either a little weasel, a little squirrel, or you’re a titan. You’re a patriot. You’re a fighter.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Researchers and activists say that while Facebook bears significant responsibility for the radicalization of anti-lockdown groups, law enforcement is also to blame for not taking those early protests seriously. The June 2020&nbsp;<a href="https://theintercept.com/collections/blueleaks/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">BlueLeaks</a>&nbsp;hack, which exposed data from law enforcement agencies and fusion centers around the country, turned up relatively little on the spring reopen protests even though many demonstrators were armed. The George Floyd protests, by contrast, came in for intense scrutiny in the trove of documents, with fusion centers&nbsp;<a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/06/26/blueleaks-minneapolis-police-protest-fears/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">including in their alerts</a>&nbsp;anti-racist barbecues and candlelight vigils.&nbsp;<a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/11/30/austin-fusion-center-surveillance-black-lives-matter-cultural-events/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Documents</a>&nbsp;that were subsequently leaked to The Intercept showed that police also surveilled cultural events&nbsp;held by the Black community over the summer.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To Jamie Garcia, an organizer with the abolitionist group Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, the events of January 6 are inextricable from abuses in policing. “That whole incident is white supremacists fighting for their lives so that they can keep their militarized police force suppressing and killing Black people. That is why they rose up. That is why they stormed the Capitol.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Meanwhile, a volatile far-right movement is not the only outgrowth of anti-lockdown demonstrations. The Covid-19 denialism that radicalized some insurrectionists has also contributed to a spike in cases across the United States. “The military is at my hospital,” said Garcia, who is a nurse in Los Angeles. “That’s how bad it is. People are dying. There is nowhere to go if you get sick.”</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/oregon-protesters-arrested/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/oregon-protesters-arrested/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">when members of the Oregon State Legislature met in Portland on Monday to discuss<b>&nbsp;COVID-19 relief bills</b>&nbsp;and other matters,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.koin.com/news/protests/photos-protests-outside-of-oregon-capitol-as-special-session-convenes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">far-right protestors</a>&nbsp;gathered outside the Oregon Capitol Building t</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">o protest coronavirus restrictions and social distancing measures</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. And according to reporters for Portland's CBS-affiliated KOIN Channel 6, four of them were&nbsp;<a href="https://www.koin.com/local/marion-county/protesters-gather-outside-salem-capitol-as-special-session-convenes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">arrested for unlawful assembly</a>.</font></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>KOIN's Lindsey Nadrich reports that the protesters "disrupted a special session of the Oregon Legislature Monday, breaking a glass door on the side of the State Capitol." That disruption, according to Nadrich, "was quickly declared an unlawful assembly, resulting in four arrests."</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bills being considered during the special session proposed, among other matters, $800 million in relief to Oregon residents who have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic or wildfires. Before the session adjourned, Nadrich notes, the Oregon House of Representatives and Oregon Senate "passed all the bills they considered: the $800 million in relief, cocktails to-go, rent relief for landlords, extension of the eviction moratorium and a bill limiting liability of schools for COVID claims." And the bills moved to Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, to be signed into law.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The four protesters arrested include Ronald Vanvlack, Jerry Dyerson, Jeremiah Pruitt and 41-year-old Ryan Lyles, who according to Nadrich, is "facing charges including&nbsp;<b>trespassing and assaulting a police officer</b>." 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</font></p><p class="yiv2480537194headline3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1st&nbsp;Daughter&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Ivanka+Trump" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Ivanka Trump</strong></a>, rumored to be exploring a possible entry into electoral politics after her father leaves office, is flexing her MAGA muscles more often these days. While the advisor to the president has generally focused her public statements on sometimes false but always positive framing of the Trump agenda and her perceived accomplishments, on Tuesday she went on the attack.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"These blanket lockdowns are not grounded in science," tweeted Ivanka Trump, who has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/04/big-marie-antoinette-energy-ivanka-trump-trounced-for-traveling-to-nj-after-urging-americans-to-please-stay-home/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">a history of ignoring stay-at-home orders</a>&nbsp;herself and is neither a scientist nor a medical expert. "These arbitrary rules imposed by callous politicians are destroying lives. It is just wrong for small business owners to have fight so hard to keep their American dream alive."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As many were quick to remind her, the "lockdowns" are necessary because President Donald Trump and his administration, including Ivanka Trump and her husband, senior advisor to the president Jared Kushner, refused to take the coronavirus seriously and engaged in a partisan attack on COVID-19 prevention.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If President Trump had acted quickly and smartly, if he had embraced mask-wearing and urged Americans to take the threat seriously, hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved by the time the pandemic will be over.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ivanka Trump has a years-long history of tone deaf tweets. Earlier this month she&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/12/two-bit-con-ivanka-trump-slammed-for-trying-to-equate-herself-with-former-presidents-off-the-charts-entitlement/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">tried to elevate and equate herself</a>&nbsp;with former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here's what many are now saying:...</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">mma 1220</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(25, 118, 210); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.937px; display: inline !important;" /><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-has-undermined-public-health-measures-over-1000-coronavirus-segments-september-1" rel="bookmark" class="teaserlink" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(25, 118, 210); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.937px; display: inline !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">ox has undermined public health measures in over 1,000 coronavirus segments since September 1</span></a></h2></div></div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-has-undermined-public-health-measures-over-1000-coronavirus-segments-september-1" rel="bookmark" class="teaserlink" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(25, 118, 210); text-decoration-line: none; 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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">aha: conflation of economic pain/damage to physical human death (bs pseudo-rational is disease of despair kia increase in recession] property>ppl</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">economic health vs human life</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">f</font><span style="color: rgb(76, 81, 87); font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">ox contributor&nbsp;</span><b style="color: rgb(76, 81, 87); font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=8c4b53f4a5cb50a48df493008afa6b2131b4db9bc10f2f8da3a725b103b2c5ee3fc6033cebc9f3845fe64845d871668f1a9444c6a1ad6ecf" title="Kimberley Strassel" style="color: rgb(25, 118, 210);">Kimberley Strassel</a></b><span style="color: rgb(76, 81, 87); font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">: “Economic lockdowns, we know, they are causing as much if not more damage than the virus itself.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(76, 81, 87); font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tucker Carlson, Fox News’ most influential prime-time star,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/fox-executives-have-decided-give-you-more-tucker-carlson" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">announced</a>&nbsp;on Monday that he would be taking on a bigger role at the network. Carlson claimed that he was discussing with Fox executives what he described as plans to “expand the amount of reporting and analysis we do in this hour across other parts of the company.” He told his viewers that “the people who run Fox News want more of it, not less.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>They are already getting it -- at the expense of the network’s putative “straight news” programs</b>. In the two days following Carlson’s announcement, those shows aired clips from his nightly “opinion” show at least 14 times. Fox “news” anchors and correspondents have incorporated clips from Carlson or his guests into packaged reports; used them as the jumping off point for panel discussions; and featured them in news briefs.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This drastic change in Fox’s typical programming habits suggests that the wall between the “news” and “opinion” side -- often touted by the network’s executives and defenders -- has become increasingly permeable. Carlson effectively served as Fox’s assignment editor over the last two days, with the network’s purportedly independent “news” side adopting his story selection and framing.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox executives know that Carlson is not a credible source for “news” content. The network lawyers won a court case by convincing a judge that no “reasonable viewer” should take him seriously.&nbsp;</b>He’s also a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/18/tucker-carlson-americas-new-moral-leader/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">notorious demagogue</a>, particularly on issues related to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlsons-descent-white-supremacy-timeline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">diversity</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-praises-spanish-flu-anti-mask-rebellion" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">coronavirus pandemic</a>, and his “anti-Black rhetoric” has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-insiders-fox-promoting-white-supremacy-and-hurting-black-americans" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reportedly led to confrontations</a>&nbsp;between the network brass and its Black employees.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>But Carlson’s heightened profile during Fox’s “news” hours comes as the network&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-desperate-push-preserve-viewers-exposes-hollowness-its-news-side" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">tries to stave off far-right competitors</a>&nbsp;by promoting its right-wing prime-time hosts.</b>&nbsp;Over the last week, Fox “news” shows have featured on-screen promos, advertisements, and the equivalent of live ad reads for Carlson and his prime-time colleagues, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Tuesday and Wednesday, Fox’s “news” programs aired clips from those three “opinion” shows at least 17 times. Wednesday’s edition of the morning show&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">America’s Newsroom</em>&nbsp;was effectively a show about the previous night’s prime-time lineup, accounting for a whopping 10 of the segments over its three hours. Of those, seven came from&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tucker Carlson Tonight</em>, two from&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Ingraham Angle</em>, and one from&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity</em>.</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--twitter-tweet paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field--name-field-twitter-tweet field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tucker Carlson Tonight</em>&nbsp;clips were also featured twice on the Tuesday edition of America’s Newsroom, once each that night on the flagship evening broadcast&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Special Report with Bret Baier</em>&nbsp;and late-night show&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox News @ Night</em>, and three times on Wednesday’s&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Outnumbered Overtime</em>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox is deploying its “opinion” shows during its “news” hours in two ways, airing both comments from the monologues of their prime-time “opinion” hosts and remarks from their guests.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Clips from the monologues of the prime-time “opinion” hosts accounted for five of the “news” side segments, four of which came on Wednesday’s&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">America’s Newsroom</em>, which separately highlighted all three of the hosts.</b>&nbsp;These segments show Fox treating its employees as de facto newsmakers whose opinions are inherently worth providing the network’s audience during its “news” hours. It’s also a way of giving those viewers more access to their favorite pro-Trump personalities -- lest they change the channel to one of Fox’s competitors.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chief breaking news correspondent Trace Gallagher, for example, anchored a news brief on Wednesday’s&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">America’s Newsroom</em>&nbsp;that seemed to have little purpose other than to tell viewers what Carlson thinks about coronavirus restrictions.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gallagher highlighted new limitations on private indoor gatherings that some Democratic governors have rolled out to slow the spread of the coronavirus during the Thanksgiving holiday and commented, “Tucker Carlson blasting the new measures.” He then aired a clip of Carlson saying on Tuesday night’s show, “Politicians have now decided they have total power over you. They can literally decide who comes to Thanksgiving dinner at your house and where they can stand. Well that's lunatic; it’s never happened in American history before." After pointing to some sheriffs who say they won’t enforce the measures, Gallagher concluded the segment.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">likewise, the anchors&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3913576" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">twice&nbsp;</a><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3913521" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">used a clip</a>&nbsp;from Ingraham’s Tuesday monologue attacking “the Thanksgiving police” to frame Wednesday America’s Newsroom segments about the new coronavirus restrictions.&nbsp;</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Twelve of the “news” segments, by contrast, featured clips of guests on Carlson’s show.&nbsp;</b>Conservative guests could already expect softball treatment from Carlson when talking about the prime-time host’s particular grievances, like trans youth or the perfidy of social media companies. Now, their talking points are also driving and framing additional coverage on the network's “news” programs.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Wednesday’s&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">America’s Newsroom</em>, for example, anchor Sandra Smith&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3913336" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">repeatedly</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3913536" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">aired</a>&nbsp;comments that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/11/clackamas-county-leader-plans-to-celebrate-thanksgiving-dinner-with-as-many-family-and-friends-as-i-can-find.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Tootie Smith</a>, the incoming Republican chair of the board of commissioners of Clackamas County, Oregon, made on Carlson’s show the previous night attacking Gov. Kate Brown for tightening restrictions due to the coronavirus’s nationwide surge, including by limiting private gatherings.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“You look at what’s happening in Oregon, with this incoming Republican chair slamming these new COVID rules,</b>” the Fox anchor said during one of the segments. She then aired a video of the Republican telling Carlson that Brown’s actions were “a travesty” and “hypocrisy” because the<b>&nbsp;governor was going to “send the police into people's homes and&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">arrest them and fine them for having a Thanksgiving meal with their family.”</span></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">that’s an overtly partisan and deeply questionable claim -- while&nbsp;<a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/11/oregon-gov-kate-brown-says-large-parties-could-trigger-fines-or-jail-time-during-coronavirus-freeze.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">violators</a>&nbsp;of Brown’s order could technically face jail time, the same set of penalties applied to violators of her stay-at-home order in March, and “authorities said at the time that they intended to inform people about the laws rather [than] issue punishments, and it’s not clear those penalties were ever applied.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carlson didn’t push back of course, because he’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-surges-across-country-fox-propagandists-are-fighting-new-efforts" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">deeply invested</a>&nbsp;in poisoning the well for any efforts to prevent mass death from coronavirus -- which is the same reason he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-tonight-local-news-broadcast-hell" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">decided to give airtime</a>&nbsp;to a county official who had a viral social media post in the first place. And Fox’s “news” side decided to prioritize her comments from Carlson’s “opinion” show and air them unchallenged, rather than highlighting an expert voice who could have provided insight into how to stay safe during the holiday.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump-fox-feedback-loop-powering-assault-democracy" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Fox's best efforts</a>, the United States will soon be transitioning to a Democratic administration -- and the network is sending every signal that it intends to respond by allowing its craziest elements to run the show, influencing the network’s programming well beyond their own timeslots.</font></p></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">c<a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/doesnt-care-about-individual-freedom-so-republicans-are-turning-to-mask-mandates/" aria-label="COVID doesn't care about 'individual freedom' — so Republicans are turning to mask mandates" style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" word-break="word-break" break-word="break-word" outline="outline" px="px" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height">OVID doesn't care about 'individual freedom' — so Republicans are turning to mask mandates</a></h1><div class="social-author clearfix" style="margin-top: 10px; display: inline-block; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="social-authorname" href="https://www.alternet.org/author/laura-clawson" style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; position: relative; font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Laura Clawson</a>&nbsp;<a class="social-authorname" href="https://www.alternet.org/author/daily-kos" style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; position: relative; font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Daily Kos</a></div><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><div class="social-date" style="margin-top: 8px; display: inline-block; color: rgb(164, 162, 160); font-size: 1.4rem; vertical-align: top; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;<span class="social-datetext" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(142, 142, 142); top: 3px; position: relative; font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; line-height: 1; left: -3px;">November 19, 2020</span></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2648978090" style="margin-top: 10px; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; font-size: 17px; font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); text-overflow: ellipsis; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-line-clamp: 4; overflow: hidden; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description"><p>As COVID-19 surges across the country, some governors are experiencing a hard collision between reality and their Republican ideas about governance.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/17/republican-governors-who-are-changing-their-tunes-masks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Governor after governor</a>&nbsp;who spent months rejecting mask mandates, often railing against them, is now admitting they're necessary. Partly, these governors are coming up against the distance between the ideas they claimed to embrace and the ideas Donald Trump was pushing hard this whole time. Republicans like North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds previously said they were backing personal responsibility and individual freedom around masks, but are now having to mandate masks because, at least in the age of Trump, the Republican base uses its individual freedom to violently reject personal responsibility.</p><p>North Dakota currently sports&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1329046386352992265" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">the highest COVID-19</a>...</p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">David Badash November 16, 2020</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">President Donald Trump's top coronavirus advisor, Dr. Scott Atlas, is being accused of sedition and inciting violence by calling for Michigan to "rise up" after Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued new orders to fight the coronavirus pandemic.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>"The only way this stops is if people rise up. You get what you accept," Atlas, who is a radiologist – not an epidemiologist – tweeted Sunday night. He added the hashtags "#FreedomMatters" and "#StepUp" to his tweet.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Last month 14 people were charged in an alleged domestic terror plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer. Some reportedly also had a plan to "overthrow" the government, and some allegedly had "made plans to kidnap Whitmer and commit violence with the hopes of sparking a 'civil war,'" MLive.com reports, quoting Attorney General Dana Nessel.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Back in May another man was charged with "credible threats to kill" Gov. Whitmer.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr. Atlas is currently serving as a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, which is headed by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Michigan's Governor Whitmer Sunday night quickly pushed back against Atlas's transparent attempts at what some are calling an attempt to incite violence (something First Daughter Ivanka Trump was also accused of attempting to do Sunday.)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hours after Atlas's tweet, he returned to Twitter to insist he wasn't attempting to incite violence, but was merely talking about the electoral process and the right to peacefully protest....</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">chis christie almost died pro mask now</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; word-break: break-word; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 20px;">and Paul tells Fox News viewers that 11 million Americans should throw away their masks</a></span></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h1><div class="social-author clearfix" style="margin-top: 10px; float: right;"><a class="social-authorname" href="https://www.alternet.org/author/walter-einenkel" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; outline: 0px;" /><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sinclair-broadcast-group/sinclair-stations-set-air-eric-bolling-monologue-claiming-masks-and" rel="bookmark" class="teaserlink" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; outline: 0px;"><span property="schema:name" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">sinclair stations set to air Eric Bolling monologue claiming masks and lockdown precautions do not help slow the spread of COVID-19</font></span></a></h2><p class="dateline-compact" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; align-items: center; display: flex; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="dateline-compacttype" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 1.5em; margin-right: 1em; width: 1.5em;"><svg viewbox="0 0 24 24" class="icon icon--article" aria-labelledby="icon-label--article" /><font size="4"><use xlink:href="#article" xmlns:xlink="xlink" /></font></span><time datetime="2020-10-15T16:33:20-0400" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10/15/20 4:33 PM EDT</font></time></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">OMG anti-stay at home/mask protests could be prep for voter intim at polls or worse in chaos after?!&nbsp; 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</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Quiet Hand of Conservative Groups in the Anti-Lockdown Protests</font></b></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Groups in a loose coalition have tapped their networks to drive up turnout at recent rallies in state capitals and financed lawsuits, polling and research to combat the stay-at-home orders.</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Kenneth P. Vogel, Jim Rutenberg and Lisa Lerer</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>April 21, 2020</b></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">WASHINGTON — An informal coalition of influential conservative leaders and groups, some with close connections to the White House, has been quietly working to nurture protests and apply political and legal pressure to overturn state and local orders intended to stop the spread of the coronavirus.</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The groups have tapped their networks to drive up turnout at recent rallies in state capitals, dispatched their lawyers to file lawsuits, and paid for polling and research to undercut the arguments behind restrictions that have closed businesses and limited the movement of most Americans.</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Among those fighting the orders are FreedomWorks and Tea Party Patriots</b>, which played pivotal roles in the beginning of Tea Party protests starting more than a decade ago.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Also involved are a&nbsp;<b>law firm led partly by former Trump White House officials,&nbsp;</b>a network of state-based conservative policy groups, and an ad hoc coalition of conservative leaders known as Save Our Country that has advised the White House on strategies for a tiered reopening of the economy.</span></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The effort picked up some influential support on Tuesday, when Attorney General William P. Barr expressed concerns about state-level restrictions potentially infringing on constitutional rights,</b>&nbsp;and suggested that, if that occurred, the Justice Department might&nbsp; weigh in, including by supporting legal challenges by others.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Separately, in Wisconsin, Republicans in the state legislature sued to block the Democratic governor’s order extending stay-at-home rules through May 26.</span></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Those helping orchestrate the fight against restrictions predict the effort could&nbsp;<b>energize the right in the same way the Tea Party movement did in 2009 and 2010,&nbsp;</b>and potentially be helpful to President Trump as he campaigns for re-election.&nbsp;</span>But the cause has yet to demonstrate that kind of traction.</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Polls show a majority of Americans are more concerned about reopening the country too quickly than they are about the damage to the economy. And coronavirus protests have drawn smaller crowds ranging from a few dozen to several thousand at a rally in Michigan last week.</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conditions are hardly ideal for a protest movement related to the virus. In addition to the health risks, demonstrators potentially face legal exposure for violating the very measures they are protesting. Plus, some key Republican leaders have embraced the types of restrictions being targeted,&nbsp;<b>while powerful grass-roots mobilizing groups, including those spearheaded by the billionaire activist<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">&nbsp;Charles Koch, have so far not embraced the protests. [BUT FREEDOMS WORKS HAS?!]</span></b></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Still, the fight has emerged as&nbsp;<b>a galvanizing cause</b>&nbsp;for a vocal element of Mr. Trump’s base and others on the political right</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">. Organizers see it as unifying social conservatives, who view the orders as targeting&nbsp;<b>religious groups</b>; fiscal conservatives</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;who chafe at the economic devastation wrought by the restrictions on businesses; and<b>&nbsp;civil libertarians</b>&nbsp;who contend that the restrictions infringe on constitutional rights.</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Groups are united in purpose on this,” said&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Noah Wall, advocacy director for FreedomWorks, which in 2009 organized a Tea Party protest&nbsp;</span>that drew tens of thousands of people or more to Washington. He described the current efforts as appealing to a “much broader” group. “This is about people who want to get back to work and leave their homes,” he said.....</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">&nbsp;=</span></font></p><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/socialist-propaganda-texas-voters-lash-out-after-gop-chairman-gets-covid-and-party-calls-for-masks">https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/socialist-propaganda-texas-voters-lash-out-after-gop-chairman-gets-covid-and-party-calls-for-masks</a></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">republicans in Texas expressed outrage at the Dallas County Republican Party after it called for people to wear face masks.</font></div><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The plea for facial coverings came this week after Dallas County Republican Party Chairman Rodney Anderson tested positive for COVID-19. The announcement was made on Facebook.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Chairman was exposed at a personal event over the weekend and immediately started the process of self-quarantining," a statement from the party said. "He and his family will continue to quarantine for the next two weeks – no Dallas County Republican Party staff or volunteers have been exposed. The Chairman is expected to make a full and quick recovery, and wants to remind everyone to continue to wear their masks and make safe social decisions."</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The post was accompanied by a graphic that said,<b>&nbsp;"Y'all wear masks."</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Many followers of the Dallas County Republican Party lashed out at the call for personal safety measures."So bc he tested positive you are now demanding we all wear a mask," Tami Cooke wrote. "This is not the Republican Party I want to be associated with.<b>&nbsp;Stop with your agenda</b>."</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Stop promoting the ridiculousness of masks," Michael Wilcox chimed in. "<b>A mask does nothing outside of a controlled environment. It's simply a psychological comfort to those whom live in fear."</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"So, Dallas County Republicans are pushing the&nbsp;<b>socialist propaganda</b>…. very interesting!</span>" Shane Pratt complained.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Time to reform the party in certain counties! Let's start with Dallas!!" Christy Bee agreed.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other commenters lamented the negative reaction to the public safety announcement.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I wish you and our nation a speedy recovery from the effects of COVID," Rudy Oeftering wrote. "I'm very sad to see the comments here. To those mocking mask-wearing; if we Republicans lose in November it will be largely due to your obstinance and defiance of simple public health requests. Why do you think R's are so upside down in attracting voters over 65?"</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Read Dallas County GOP's post below.</font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">an 920</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">h</font><a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/how-a-mask-mandate-might-hurt-the-re-election-chances-of-indianas-republican-governor/" aria-label="How a mask mandate might hurt the re-election chances of Indiana's Republican governor" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" word-break="word-break" break-word="break-word" outline="outline" px="px" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height">ow a mask mandate might hurt the re-election chances of Indiana's Republican governor</a></font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="social-author clearfix" style="margin-top: 10px; 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display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;<span class="social-datetext" style="top: 3px; position: relative; line-height: 1; left: -3px;">September 27, 2020</span></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2647837227" style="margin-top: 10px; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; display: -webkit-box; text-overflow: ellipsis; line-height: 31px; overflow: hidden; -webkit-line-clamp: 4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Associated Press&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-indianapolis-eric-holcomb-elections-campaigns-5eac591ebd16e8b7ec32710236f90be9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">recently reported</a>&nbsp;that Indiana conservatives who are furious with Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb over his statewide mask mandate are cottoning to Libertarian Donald Rainwater as an alternative, which could make this fall's otherwise...</font></p></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">w<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ithin the next few days, we will pass a grisly benchmark: more than 200,000 Americans dead from the&nbsp;coronavirus.</span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/health/us-coronavirus-friday/index.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">&nbsp;Public health experts predict that number may rise to&nbsp;400,000 by the end of the year</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. If the Trump administration pursues a “herd immunity” strategy,&nbsp;where the disease is allowed to spread unchecked throughout the country, then millions of people may die.</span></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/09/15/herd-mentality-trump-again-asserts-coronavirus-disappear/5812463002/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">During Tuesday night’s ABC News town hall broadcast, Donald Trump admitted that allowing the coronavirus to infect the American people en masse is his preferred strategy</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is clear that wearing a mask that&nbsp;covers one’s mouth and nose is the&nbsp;easiest way to slow&nbsp;the transmission of the coronavirus. If a national mask mandate had been instituted across the United States in March, many&nbsp;thousands of lives would have been spared, and the country’s economy might&nbsp;not now be in ruins.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Why then do&nbsp;so many Americans refuse&nbsp;to wear masks during this pandemic?</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Social scientists and other researchers have reached several preliminary conclusions.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">People with lower cognitive abilities&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8519169/Real-covidiots-People-refuse-wear-mask-lower-cognitive-ability-new-study-shows.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">find it difficult to follow directions about when to&nbsp;wear&nbsp;a mask</a>&nbsp;and when it is appropriate and safe not to do so. Moreover, when the rules about wearing a mask are inconsistent, it becomes even more difficult for people with lower cognitive abilities to wear masks consistently and correctly.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Researchers have also found that people who exhibit&nbsp;the “dark triad” of behavior and personality traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism and&nbsp;psychopathy)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/narcissists-psychopaths-face-mask-requirement-mandate-social-distancing-covid-19-coronavirus-1519732" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">are also more likely not to&nbsp;wear masks</a>&nbsp;as compared to others.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/dudes-who-wont-wear-masks/613375/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><b>Among men,</b>&nbsp;a refusal to wear a mask is connected to a sense of fragile and embattled masculinity</a>, in which&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/23/on-trump-masks-and-masculinity-what-the-presidents-bare-face-really-reveals/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">masks&nbsp;are viewed as being “weak” and “feminine” and “not cool.”</a>&nbsp;For such men who lack confidence in their sense of self and overall identity, not wearing a mask is a&nbsp;selfish act which they view as strength&nbsp;and perhaps as evidence&nbsp;that they are “alpha males” who can win&nbsp;a primitive test of “survival of the fittest.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Scientific American,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-condoms-of-the-face-why-some-men-refuse-to-wear-masks/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Emily Willingham suggests that masks are also viewed as a “condom of the face”</a>&nbsp;by men who are afflicted with “toxic masculinity”:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border: none !important;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So, they go maskless. In doing so, they expect that their masculine ideology group will accept them, respect them and not reject them.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The irony is that these men think they’re manifesting the ideal of the rugged, individualistic American, when their refusal really traces in part to a fear of what other people will think about them. Drunk on a toxic brew of self-interest and that masculine ideology, they mistake their refusal to protect themselves and others as a mark of character when instead, it’s a mark&nbsp;on&nbsp;their characters.</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moving from the general to the specific, what is known about the relationship between wearing a mask during the coronavirus pandemic and a person’s political values and beliefs?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unsurprisingly, political partisanship and support for Donald Trump and the Republican Party is highly correlated with refusal to wear a mask and opposition to other public health initiatives which are intended to stop the pandemic.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Such thinking and behavior also reflect the fact that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/07/22/republicans-remain-far-less-likely-than-democrats-to-view-covid-19-as-a-major-threat-to-public-health/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Trump supporters, Republicans, and other conservatives exist in a media echo chamber which has assured&nbsp;them that the pandemic is a “hoax” or “fake news”</a>&nbsp;crafted by liberals and intended to hurt the Trump administration</b>. As has been repeatedly shown by media scholars and other researchers, the right-wing echo chamber is a system ruled by epistemic closure in which&nbsp;incorrect information, outright lies&nbsp;and conspiracy theories dominate. As is often cited, viewers of Fox News actually know less about empirical reality and the world as it relates to current events than people who watch no news programs at all.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The&nbsp;<a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3562796" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">politicized quality&nbsp;of wearing a mask&nbsp;is the result&nbsp;of extreme asymmetrical polarization in which&nbsp;movement conservatives, leading Republicans, right-wing news media, white right-wing evangelical churches, and other influential figures on the right&nbsp;have politicized broad areas of public and private life</a>&nbsp;— to the point where basic questions&nbsp;of public health and the common good are transformed into partisan issues&nbsp;of personal identity and the self.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald Trump leads an authoritarian cult of personality. Given that, his&nbsp;ability to influence the thinking and behavior of his followers is extreme.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s repeated suggestions that his followers should&nbsp;not wear masks, should feel free to ignore social distancing rules and&nbsp;attend his rallies, and should even take up arms&nbsp;against Democratic officials such as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan&nbsp;have a direct and measurable impact on public health by encouraging the spread of the coronavirus.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Trump’s power over his followers reveals something much more dangerous and troubling&nbsp;about American society than “just” the coronavirus and its season of death —&nbsp;and even more than the underlying social inequalities and pathologies&nbsp;that made this pandemic&nbsp;so much worse than it should have been.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beginning in the 1980s, American conservatism has morphed into a type of religious politics in which&nbsp;fact and reason have been subsumed by faith. This manifests in many ways: anti-intellectualism and&nbsp;anti-rationality, racism and white supremacy, hostile sexism and misogyny, a worship of ignorance and&nbsp;greed,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/us/evangelicals-trump-christianity.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">right-wing Christian fundamentalism</a>, a disregard for truth and empirical reality, and contempt for&nbsp;expert knowledge.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At its root, faith is a belief in that which cannot be proven by empirical or other ordinary means. The Republican Party’s policies on taxes, the environment, social inequality, education, public health&nbsp;and other issues&nbsp;(tax cuts pay for themselves!) are rooted in faith. They are easily refuted and disproved by the empirical data. In practice, that makes no difference to those who are true believers.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If today’s American conservatism is a type of religious politics, then Trumpism is one of its most dangerous sects and a de facto cult. In the age of Trump, refusing the mask is a form of sacrament, a&nbsp;political-religious symbol that&nbsp;signifies loyalty to Donald Trump and his movement.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Authoritarianism and other fake populist movements gather power through their ability to transfer the leader into a type of godhead, an extension of an embattled and fearful self that is made immortal through loyalty to the Great Leader. Moreover, authoritarianism — and fascism&nbsp;in particular&nbsp;—&nbsp;is a type of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/03/27/trumps-death-cult-finally-says-it-time-to-kill-the-useless-eaters-for-capitalism/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">death cult where the followers will willingly sacrifice themselves for the greatness of the Leader.</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/06/03/novelist-and-screenwriter-aleksandar-hemon-on-the-magnitude-of-catastrophe-facing-america/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Trump’s followers, as their predecessors did in Germany, Italy&nbsp;and elsewhere, are prepared to kill or die for their leader.</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the heart of Trumpism&nbsp;is a form&nbsp;of&nbsp;existential angst, what is a fundamental crisis of meaning and human value.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Writing at the&nbsp;Metta Center for Nonviolence,&nbsp;<a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/metta/2020/02/stop-cult-trump-satisfy-human-need-meaning/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">UC Berkeley professor emeritus&nbsp;Michael Nagler explains this</a>:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border: none !important;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because of my background in ancient religion and culture I have special reason to be alarmed by the frequent references to the psychopathology of the president and his followers as a “cult.” Not that I find these references misleading — on the contrary, they contain a truth that’s more dangerous than we may realize.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I’m old enough to remember “the Jonestown massacre” of November, 1978, in which some 900 Americans committed what they called “revolutionary suicide” at the behest of a deranged demagogue. After the horrific event sunk in, I could not stop asking myself, “How could 900 presumably educated, mature adults, poison themselves — and in some cases their own children — and do it for such an obvious egotist? What was wrong with them? What were they lacking?”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Strangely no one seemed to be asking this obvious question.</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The question, Nagler continues, “has come back to haunt us with greater urgency. But this time it’s not just a circle of deluded followers — it’s the whole country that’s at the mercy of an egotistical demagogue.&nbsp;</b>… And the cup he’s offering is not cyanide but ecocide: the extinction of all life on earth.&nbsp;… As we know from the nightmare of Nazism, when the ‘leader’&nbsp;supports the delusions, the conspiracy theories of a deluded element in the society, as the current president is doing, the combination can reach extremely dangerous proportions.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the Wire,&nbsp;<a href="https://thewire.in/world/hollow-man-in-the-confederacy-of-dunces-the-phenomenon-of-donald-j-trump" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">cultural theorist Sibaji Bandyopadhyay&nbsp;explained the role of collective narcissism and sadism</a>&nbsp;in attracting profoundly&nbsp;damaged people&nbsp;to neofascist movements and political cult leaders like&nbsp;Trump:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border: none !important;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is therefore quite feasible to imagine that at certain historical conjunctures there may arise situations in which the vacuous ego of one megalomaniac succeeds in superimposing itself on many an ego by the conduit of primary narcissism. And indeed, the ‘art’ involved in the deal offered by Donald Trump is squarely predicated upon what may be termed&nbsp;transactional narcissism. In this scenario, to use the formula of Freud, people accept Trump as their “high ego-ideal” and “exchange [their] narcissism for homage to [it]”. In short, it is not a tale of isolated, solitary self-love but that of interdependence and reciprocity: rising to the level of being a fully-exposed syndrome, Trump’s Other-abjuring narcissistic persona both feeds on and flares up the mostly latent similar sort of narcissism of the mostly forgotten masses.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But, this is not all.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whoever courts an ego-ideal, secretly pines for the tantalizing interplay of pleasure and pain. By transferring primary narcissism to the safe-keeping of some supposed strongman, more often than not, s/he automatically takes on the role of being passively active in some theatre of sadomasochism.</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As journalist Bob Woodward has recently revealed, Donald Trump knew from the beginning&nbsp;that the coronavirus was&nbsp;lethal, not a hoax. Trump simply chose to lie to the American people about the pandemic, as well as to actively sabotage relief efforts, and in&nbsp;doing so committed&nbsp;a crime against humanity. Trump’s political cult members are not moved by these facts. They continue to gather at his command at rallies where thousands huddle together unmasked to bask in the glorious revelation&nbsp;of&nbsp;his presence. At Trump’s rally last Sunday in Nevada, thousands of his followers actually ran into the arena, as though they were on fire with joy.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was perhaps too&nbsp;irresistible to liberal schadenfreude, this image of Trumpists enthusiastically running into a pandemic petri dish as though it was the healing fountain at Lourdes.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/carl-bernstein-homicidal-trump_n_5f601967c5b6e27db131af04?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Journalist Carl Bernstein</a>&nbsp;told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, &nbsp;“We are witnessing a homicidal president convening ― purposefully ― a homicidal assembly to help him get re-elected as president of the United States instead of protecting the health and welfare of the people of the United States, including his own supporters whose lives he is willing to sacrifice.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To those outside&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/07/cult-expert-steven-hassan-trumps-mind-control-cult-now-faces-an-existential-crisis/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the Trump cult</a>&nbsp;such behavior makes no sense and is just further proof that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/13/dr-john-gartner-donald-trump-is-the-most-successful-bio-terrorist-in-human-history/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Trump’s followers are&nbsp;human “deplorables” – in this example fulfilling their role as human bioweapons&nbsp;for Trumpism.</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But such an analysis ignores the power of Trumpism and today’s version of “conservatism” as a type of religious politics. Trump’s followers run toward&nbsp;death because he and his movement are providing them with emotional nourishment and meaning in their lives.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump’s&nbsp;neofascist movement will not disappear even if&nbsp;the Great Leader is voted out of office on Election Day and decides to step down. Such people will just latch onto another American fascist and demagogue,&nbsp;in whatever form he or she may take</b>. Decent Americans may see the Trumpists and others of their ilk as tainted, but they themselves feel touched and empowered. In living the faith of their right-wing political religion, Trump’s followers have found “salvation” through a leader who is simultaneously&nbsp;“like them” but is also a type of semi-divine prophet&nbsp;whose example they aspire to imitate or emulate.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div class="header-list-style" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 class="entry-title grid-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/more-guaranteed-to-protect-me-than-vaccine-cdc-director-calls-face-masks-most-important-health-tool-we-have-to-fight-19/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More guaranteed to protect me’ than vaccine: CDC director calls face masks ‘most important health tool we have’ to fight COVID-19</font></a></h2><div class="grid-post-box-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/alex-henderson/" title="Posts by Alex Henderson" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Alex Henderson</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 16, 2020</span></font></div></div><div class="item-content entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During an ABC News townhall event moderated by George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump once again downplayed the benefits of wearing protective face masks. But when Dr. Robert…</font></p></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">an 920</font></div><div><div class="header-list-style" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 class="entry-title grid-title" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/herd-developed-trumps-cult-would-rather-get-19-than-admit-they-were-wrong/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Herd developed’: Trump’s death cult would rather get COVID-19 than admit they were wrong</font></a></h2><div class="grid-post-box-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/amanda-marcotte/" title="Posts by Amanda Marcotte" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Amanda Marcotte</a>&nbsp;/&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/salon/" title="Posts by Salon " class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Salon&nbsp;</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 16, 2020</span></font></div></div><div class="item-content entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump was doing spectacularly bad science again, this time during a town hall in Philadelphia&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/09/16/with-no-end-in-sight-trumps-lies-just-keep-making-the-pandemic-worse/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">hosted by ABC’s George&nbsp;Stephanopoulos on Tuesday night</a>. The event went about as well for the president&nbsp;as&nbsp;anyone who has been awake during&nbsp;the past four years could have predicted, which raises the important question:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/16/trump-dumps-brad-parscale--but-the-campaigns-failures-are-all-about-him/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Wasn’t his new campaign manager supposed to be&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">competent</em>?</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When asked about an audio clip&nbsp;captured by journalist Bob Woodward in which Trump&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/09/09/homicidal-negligence-trump-admits-on-tape-that-he-hid-deadly-threat-of-coronavirus-from-public/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">talks&nbsp;about the coronavirus pandemic</a>&nbsp;and how much he “wanted to always play it down,”&nbsp;Trump slid right into his don’t-believe-your-lying-ears mode,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1306039042266595328" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">claiming that he, in fact, “up-played it.”</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Whatever that means. Then the “</span><a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/07/12/im-a-very-stable-genius-trump-continues-to-threaten-nato-treaty_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">very stable genius</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” currently squatting in the Oval Office rolled out his brilliant plan to lick the&nbsp;coronavirus problem&nbsp;(</span><a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1306040312872214536" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">as transcribed by the invaluable Aaron Rupar of Vox</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">):</span></font></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; border: none !important;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TRUMP: It is going away.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">STEPHANOPOULOS: Without a vaccine?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TRUMP: Sure. Over a period of time.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">STEPHANOPOULOS: And many deaths.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TRUMP: It’s gonna be herd developed.</font></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He also used the phrase&nbsp;“herd mentality.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump’s English comprehension is garbled by decades of being unable to listen to anyone speaking about&nbsp;any topic that doesn’t directly concern his greatness or his personal finances.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;But he appeared to be talking about the concept of “herd immunity,”&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/articles/achieving-herd-immunity-with-covid19.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">which is generally understood to</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">&nbsp;require&nbsp;70 to 90% of the population</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">&nbsp;to be immune&nbsp;to a given infectious agent.&nbsp;</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This “let everyone get it” plan has&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/06/live-and-let-die-was-this-trumps-mission-accomplished-moment/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">been a favorite of Trump’s from the beginning</a></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>&nbsp;of the pandemic</b>.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Recently,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/09/02/how-the-anti-choice-movement-trained-republicans-to-accept-trumps-coronavirus-denialism/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">he has&nbsp;hired a borderline quack named Dr. Scott Atlas</a>&nbsp;— a radiologist with no expertise in virology or epidemiology — to keep telling him it’s a good idea.&nbsp;But even Atlas knows this is a crackpot plan, and has so far refused to&nbsp;admit to reporters that he’s the source of Trump’s incoherent muttering about&nbsp;“herd impunity” or “herd magnanimity” or “herd it on the grapevine</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.” (To be clear: Kidding! He hasn’t said any of those things. At least not yet.)</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">right now, somewhere around&nbsp;2% of Americans have tested positive for the coronavirus&nbsp;—&nbsp;</span><a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/" target="blank" rel="noopener" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer">which is still a whopping 6.6 million people</a></b><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b>, more than any other nation on Eart</b>h&nbsp;— and of that group, just over&nbsp;196,000 have died as of Wednesday afternoon. I leave it to readers — who, unlike Trump,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/07/trumps-niece-claims-that-he-got-into-wharton-after-he-paid-someone-to-take-the-sat-on-his-behalf_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer">didn’t pay someone to take their SATs for them</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">&nbsp;— to figure out how many more people are likely&nbsp;to die if we go with Trump’s brilliant plan of infecting perhaps&nbsp;35 times as many people with the virus as have now tested positive.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Or, skip the algebra and read this article from the Washington Post, which&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/health/coronavirus-herd-immunity-simulation-vaccine/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">estimates that</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">&nbsp;Trump’s “good brain” plan would kill nearly 3 million people</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">.)</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here I thought that&nbsp;<b>Trump had crammed thousands of his followers, without masks, into&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/09/15/trump-accused-of-negligent-homicide-for-gathering-maskless-supporters-at-indoor-campaign-rally_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">an indoor rally in Henderson, Nevada,</a></b>&nbsp;just because he’s a terminal narcissist who prioritizes his insatiable need for applause over the lives of the very swing-state voters he would need&nbsp;to win the election. But hey, it might also be that&nbsp;he’s using the bodies of his own supporters — who tend, on average, to be older and likelier to die of COVID-19 — for his grand experiment in “herd development.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Move over,&nbsp;Burning Man:&nbsp;It’s time for a&nbsp;new desert festival! Donald Trump’s Coronafest 2020: The drugs aren’t as good, and you’re way likelier to end up dead.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The wild thing is how many people turned up for the dubious pleasures of risking their lives to hear&nbsp;Dr. Bleach-Injector’s whiny, singsong cadence for more than&nbsp;an hour.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/13/politics/trump-indoor-rally-coronavirus-2020/index.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Thousands</em>&nbsp;of people showed up at the Henderson rally</a>, putting it all on the line to show the world that they’re willing to&nbsp;get sick or even die rather than admit it was&nbsp;a bad idea to elect a racist reality-TV host with the moral compass of a serial killer to the highest office in the land.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.salon.com/2017/06/21/no-regrets-for-trump-voters-the-media-needs-to-stop-looking-for-buyers-remorse/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">In&nbsp;the first year of Trump’s presidency</a>, I wrote a piece warning about the powers of rationalization, and suggesting how far Trump supporters would likely go rather than admit they made a mistake in voting for the man in 2016.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“[T]he answer to the&nbsp;question of when Trump voters will come around&nbsp;is somewhere between ‘a long, long time from now’&nbsp;and more likely ‘never,'” I wrote in June 2017.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I quote myself only to say that, holy yikes, did I understate the case. No matter how confident I was that Trump supporters would contort themselves into ridiculous pretzels or sign onto outrageous beliefs to justify their 2016 vote, even I had no idea how wacky things could get. Here we are, three&nbsp;years and change later, and this is the lengths Trump voters will go to avoid having to say, “Oops!"[twt/pix/vid?]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">or check out this rally in&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/14/st-george-utah-anti-mask-protest-social-media/5799567002/" target="blank" rel="noopener" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer">the town of&nbsp;St. George, Utah,&nbsp;</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">which happened a few weeks ago but has now gone viral, due to the I-can’t-believe-this-isn’t-satire aspect of it all. That&nbsp;report doesn’t come from a progressive media outlet of any kind,&nbsp;just the local news station.&nbsp;<b>It features a bunch of angry white people comparing having to wear a face mask to George Floyd being killed by police in Minneapolis, or claiming that&nbsp;“most child molesters love” masks.</b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No doubt it’s tempting to dismiss these examples as</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;nut-picking,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;no different than when right-wingers grab the occasional anarchist-flavored vandal&nbsp;at a Black Lives Matter protest and use him&nbsp;to demonize the whole movement. But the difference is these loons don’t actually sound much&nbsp;different than their beloved president.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/06/18/trump-suggests-some-people-wear-face-masks-as-part-of-an-effort-to-damage-him-politically-partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Trump has also suggested that people only wear masks to spite him</a>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;He&nbsp;was clearly coached by his campaign staff to sound vaguely pro-mask during the Tuesday town hall,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/15/parsing-trumps-baffling-head-slapping-comments-mask-wearing/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">his true feelings</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;came out when&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">he kept repeating variations of “a lot of people think the masks are not good.”&nbsp;(When Trump says “some people” or “a lot of people” are saying something,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-lot-of-people-are-saying-how-trump-spreads-conspiracies-and-innuendo/2016/06/13/b21e59de-317e-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">he is just stating his own opinion</a>&nbsp;and, like the incorrigible coward he is, refusing to own it</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.) And&nbsp;like that “child molester” lady,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/08/13/is-qanon-the-new-christian-right-with-evangelicals-fading-a-new-insanity-rises/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">who is obviously a QAnon&nbsp;follower</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">, Trump loves pushing Q-friendly&nbsp;conspiracy theories, even retweeting&nbsp; a QAnon adherent who recently accused&nbsp;former Vice President Joe Biden&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/15/politics/donald-trump-biden-retweet/index.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">of being a pedophile</a>.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite all this,&nbsp;<a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/?cid=rrpromo" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Trump’s approval rating sits right around&nbsp;42 to 44%, and is apparently immovable</a>. The phrase “in for a penny, in for a pound” has never been more relevant. Apparently,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">anything</em>&nbsp;is better than admitting that the liberals were right that voting for Trump was a bad idea — even getting COVID-19 is preferable to that. That’s why the&nbsp;conspiracy theories must get more baroque all the time, because trying to tell a story in which&nbsp;Trump voters are the good guys is harder than trying to explain to the cops why you have a freezer full of human body parts.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hell, maybe it was a smart idea for the campaign to throw Trump on TV, thereby guaranteeing that liberals would mock him and the fools who vote for him without mercy. As the past four years have demonstrated, it just makes Trump’s supporters more&nbsp;defensive, and more determined than ever to stick it to the libs one more time. Because heaven forbid that Trump’s 2016&nbsp;voters should demonstrate a conscience by acting like&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">real&nbsp;</em>good guys would: Sucking it up, admitting they were wrong and making better choices this November.</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">odd mirroring pattern? i am the true victim</font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 920</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">w<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/watch-fact-free-utah-rally-goes-viral-after-attendees-spout-conspiracies-and-compare-wearing-masks-to-george-floyd-telling-police-i-cant-breathe/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4; display: inline !important;">atch: Fact-free Utah rally goes viral after attendees spout conspiracies and compare wearing masks to George Floyd telling police ‘I can’t breathe’</a></font></p><div class="mag-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/ayshaqamar/" title="Posts by Aysha Qamar" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Aysha Qamar</a>&nbsp;/&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/daily-kos/" title="Posts by Daily Kos" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Daily Kos</a></font></span></div></div><div class="mag-excerpt entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As health experts continue to encourage mask-wearing across the country, some anti-maskers just won’t give up.</font></p></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p></div><div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/facebook-allowing-campaign-ditch-face-masks-en-masse-spread</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A campaign urging people to burn and get rid of face masks en masse on September 15 has been spreading on Facebook and Instagram, despite multiple state laws and health experts’ guidance to wear them.</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the novel coronavirus pandemic has spread throughout the United States, both public officials and health experts have urged people to wear masks to decrease the spread of the coronavirus. Numerous states have also instituted mandates for people to wear masks when in public.</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nevertheless, since at least the beginning of September, posts have spread on Facebook and Instagram calling for a mass rejection of masks on September 15, getting at least tens of thousands of engagements combined. The posts have often used a handful of memes that encourage people to “throw that filthy thing away” or “burn your masks” on September 15 because “we the people have decided that the masks are no longer mandatory.” One such meme was shared by a congressional candidate who supports the QAnon conspiracy theory.</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Instagram mask meme1</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Facebook mask meme1</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Facebook mask meme2</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In particular, the campaign and these memes have spread throughout public Facebook groups that have tens of thousands of members combined.</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Facebook mask meme groups1</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Facebook mask meme groups2</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Facebook mask meme groups3</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There are also indications that the campaign has spread in private “reopen” Facebook groups and anti-mask groups as well.</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Facebook mask meme private groups</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Additionally, multiple Facebook events promoting the campaign have popped up and been shared on the platform.</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Facebook mask campaign events</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The campaign has also appeared on some other platforms, such as TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, and Twitter, with some content using the same Facebook memes and a YouTube video that pushes it even carrying revenue-generating ads.</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Facebook has repeatedly served as a vector for coronavirus misinformation, particularly through the groups feature.</font></div></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">an 920</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">given that Fox News, as well as some conservative radio stations, have&nbsp;<a title="" href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/18/1928649/-Watch-the-sharply-shifting-coronavirus-rhetoric-from-Fox-News-over-the-last-two-weeks" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">downplayed</a>&nbsp;the severity of the novel coronavirus pandemic, it’s not too surprising that people who rely on such sources for their news may not take all advised precautions seriously at this point in the public health crisis.&nbsp;What sort of precautions? Oh, one of the most essential, basic ones:&nbsp;<a title="" href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/02/us/covid-conservative-masks-nh-poll-trnd/index.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">wearing a face mask</a>&nbsp;in public.<b> A new&nbsp;<a href="https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/conservative-media-consumers-views-COVID-19" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">poll</a>&nbsp;from the University of New Hampshire found that where we get our news can have a seriously big impact on our mask-wearing, and from what we know about this public health crisis, that’s far from&nbsp;good.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to this research, which was conducted in July 2020 and involved 995 New Hampshire residents, 77% of people living in New Hampshire do, indeed, always wear a face mask in public,&nbsp;unless they are outside and&nbsp;properly socially distanced. Only&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">half</em>&nbsp;of the respondents who said they regularly watch Fox News, however, report the same. For conservative radio listeners in the state, that drops to one-third.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>80% of surveyed residents who never tuned in to Fox News or similar conservative outlets wanted the government to make prioritizing containing the virus a bigger priority over the economy. Just over 10% of regular Fox News viewers felt the same</b>. Similarly, three-quarters of people who never consumed these conservative media sources believed that the worst of the virus is still yet to come; less than one-quarter of conservative viewers, however, believe that to be the case.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is certainly not the first poll to show such variation; for example, in the&nbsp;Daily Kos/Civiqs&nbsp;<a href="https://civiqs.com/documents/Civiqs_DailyKos_monthly_banner_book_2020_07_d7fhn9.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">poll</a>&nbsp;from July, only 20% of frequent Fox News viewers believed that wearing a face mask helps prevent the spread of the virus. A majority of Fox News viewers also felt comfortable with schools reopening; as we’ve already covered, campuses are seeing fresh clusters of cases seemingly by the day.</font></p><div class="alt_ad_block true_ad_free story-page-in-content-graph-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="alt_ad_msg" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 10px; background: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><div class="header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">AD REMOVED FOR SUBSCRIBED USER</div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interestingly, according to the New Hampshire polling, some people who regularly watch Fox News&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">are</em>&nbsp;concerned about the virus. 25% of respondents said they were worried about either their own health or someone else’s. The majority of respondents, coming in at two-thirds, who did not watch conservative media, however, were worried about health amid the global pandemic.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New Hampshire is an interesting place to conduct this poll&nbsp;as it actually&nbsp;doesn’t have a statewide mask mandate, though Republican Gov. Chris&nbsp;Sununu has ordered that masks must be worn in gatherings of more than 100 people. Some cities do have mask mandates, and businesses are allowed to enforce them as well.&nbsp;That 100 people guideline garnered quite a bit of attention when Trump held a rally in New Hampshire last week; masks were supposed to be worn, but many attendees&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wcax.com/2020/09/01/sununu-says-hes-not-concerned-by-lack-of-masks-at-trump-rally/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">reportedly</a>&nbsp;did not wear them.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Looking at some viral images from Trump arriving in North Carolina this afternoon, we&nbsp;see many people greeting him without masks or social distancing.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-lawyer-jenna-ellis-backs-california-church-defying-public-health-restrictions-from-tyrant-gov-newsom" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-lawyer-jenna-ellis-backs-california-church-defying-public-health-restrictions-from-tyrant-gov-newsom</a>/</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/trump-and-his-west-wing-allies-privately-trash-deputy-national-security-adviser-for-wearing-face-masks-inside-the-white-house-report/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/trump-and-his-west-wing-allies-privately-trash-deputy-national-security-adviser-for-wearing-face-masks-inside-the-white-house-report/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">pottinger</font></div><div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 820</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">flor<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/florida-sheriff-announces-ban-on-protective-face-masks-for-deputies-and-visitors-as-19-ravages-his-state-not-up-for-discussion/" rel="bookmark" title="Florida sheriff announces ban on protective face masks for deputies and visitors as COVID-19 ravages his state: ‘Not up for discussion’" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.4;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px" font-weight="font-weight" display="display" inline="inline" important="important" color="color" rgb="rgb">da sheriff announces ban on protective face masks for deputies and visitors as COVID-19 ravages his state: ‘Not up for discussion’</a></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">mma 820</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">fox News contributor&nbsp;</span><b style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Rachel Campos-Duffy</b><span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=ef24d128bf6555c27fa478a2517e22005cc423201290bd78c8bc0bbb1b11e1388b5d5e233acc9a3887ac3a60597128f140fc77c825f34edd" title="falsely claimed" style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">falsely claimed</a><span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;that there is "some debate" about wearing masks. Even her co-panelists immediately corrected her</span></font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/report-facebook-employees-have-evidence-showing-pattern-preferential-treatment-right-wing" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/report-facebook-employees-have-evidence-showing-pattern-preferential-treatment-right-wing</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A&nbsp;new BuzzFeed report reveals that Facebook employees have evidence that shows the platform gives preferential treatment to right-wing Facebook pages, which is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/black-lives-matter/facebook-has-repeatedly-caved-bogus-right-wing-pressure" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">at stark odds</a>&nbsp;with conservatives’ frequent and unsubstantiated claims that social media platforms are censoring right-wing accounts.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An August 6&nbsp;<a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">article</a>&nbsp;from Craig Silverman and Ryan Mac reports that there are growing internal concerns about how Facebook handles misinformation, particularly misinformation related to voting and the upcoming 2020 presidential election.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In internal message boards, employees questioned “the apparent special treatment of right-wing pages” including the&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">far-right outlet Breitbart, which Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/black-lives-matter/facebook-has-repeatedly-caved-bogus-right-wing-pressure#paragraph--narrative-item--3322281" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">considers</a>&nbsp;a “trusted new source</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.”&nbsp;<b><u>Reportedly, employees have evidence that shows “a pattern of preferential treatment for right-wing publishers and pages,”</u></b>&nbsp;<b>including interference in Facebook’s fact-checking process from company leaders&nbsp;such as Facebook</b></span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Vice President for Global Public Policy&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Joel Kaplan</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Kaplan, a former deputy White House chief of staff for the George W. Bush administration,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/mark-zuckerberg-hypocrite-and-trumpist" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reportedly</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;<b>pushed for Facebook to partner with right-wing groups and was&nbsp;</b></span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/bombshell-report-facebook-has-known-it-fomenting-extremism-years-and-refuses-stop" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">involved</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;in nixing proposed solutions to stop political polarization on the platform</span>.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This reporting comes as right-wing politicians and figures continue to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/timeline-how-baseless-right-wing-claims-about-tech-bias-led-trump-drafting-executive" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">baselessly</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/conservatives-cried-endlessly-about-censorship-2019" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">accuse</a>&nbsp;Facebook and other social media platforms of censorship and anti-conservative bias. During the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/antitrust-hearing-tech-ceos/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">hearing</a>&nbsp;last month, conservative lawmakers&nbsp;<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/07/29/republicans-use-tech-antitrust-hearing-to-rail-against-anti-conservative-bias/#624f0da955aa" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">repeatedly</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/b_fung/status/1288562452377014273" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">alleged</a>&nbsp;that Facebook is biased against right-leaning content. Additionally, Fox News&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-friends-defends-trumps-false-statements-about-coronavirus-and-children" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">attacked</a>&nbsp;Facebook and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/top-right-wing-media-figures-rally-around-demon-sperm-doc" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">accused</a>&nbsp;the platform&nbsp;of censorship after Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/trumps-fox-friends-interview-demonstrates-fox-news-systemic-covid-19-misinformation" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">enforced its policy</a>&nbsp;against COVID-19 misinformation.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Media Matters has repeatedly found that claims of anti-conservative bias on social media platforms are false</b>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/study-analysis-top-facebook-pages-covering-american-political-news" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">In</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/study-facebook-still-not-censoring-conservatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">multiple</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/despite-bias-claims-facebook-not-censoring-conservatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">studies</a>&nbsp;over the course of several years, Media Matters has shown that right-leaning and left-leaning content thrives on Facebook, with right-leaning Facebook pages earning more interactions -- reactions, comments, shares -- on posts about&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/right-wing-talking-points-get-most-engagement-facebook-posts-about" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">voting</a>&nbsp;and posts about&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/black-lives-matter/study-right-wing-fearmongering-leads-facebook-engagement-about-peaceful-protests" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">protests</a>&nbsp;against police brutality&nbsp;than do posts from left-leaning or ideologically nonaligned pages. In recent weeks, this trend has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/right-leaning-content-dominates-facebook-week-prior-judiciary-hearing-despite-conservative" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">continued to hold</a>.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BuzzFeed’s latest report about Facebook employees claiming there is a pattern of preferential treatment toward&nbsp;right-leaning Facebook pages and figures further underscores how Facebook has caved to pressure from conservatives, despite evidence repeatedly debunking conservatives’ baseless accusations. From BuzzFeed’s August 6 article:</font></p></div></div><blockquote class="block-quote block-quote--collapsable" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="block-quotequote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>With heightened internal tensions and morale at a low point, concerns about how the company handles fact-checked content have exploded in an internal Workplace group dedicated to misinformation policy.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last Friday, at another all-hands meeting, employees asked Zuckerberg how right-wing publication</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;Breitbart News could remain a Facebook News partner after sharing a video that promoted unproven treatments and said <b>masks were unnecessary to combat the novel coronavirus</b>.&nbsp;</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The video racked up 14 million views in six hours before it was removed from Breitbart’s page, though other accounts continued to share it.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Zuckerberg danced around the question</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">, but did note that Breitbart could be removed from the company's news tab if it were to receive two strikes for publishing misinformation within 90 days of each other. (<b>Facebook News partners, which include dozens of publications such as BuzzFeed News and the Washington Post, receive compensation and placement in a special news tab on the social network</b>.)</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This was certainly one strike against them for misinformation, but they don't have others in the last 90 days,” Zuckerberg said. “So by the policies that we have, which by the way I think are generally pretty reasonable on this, it doesn't make sense to remove them.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But some of Facebook’s own employees gathered evidence they say shows Breitbart — along with other right-wing outlets and figures including Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, Trump supporters Diamond and Silk, and conservative video production nonprofit Prager University — has received special treatment that helped it avoid running afoul of company policy</b>. They see it as part of a pattern of preferential treatment for right-wing publishers and pages, many of which have alleged that the social network is biased against conservatives.</font></p></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Charlie Kirk</b><span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=ed5afe79ac06b626991e26005fed23ea9000f042b4f7ff19dd2cc94c23710157606940b0329d1bbf677d62ca23f491e9c2a10053f4c72922" title="declared that" style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">declared that</a><span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;he won't wear masks because he doesn't believe in the science.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">gohmert kept off AF1 b/c of fever, tested pos, said he got it FROM mask; next day Cain dies.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/reporter-inundated-with-flood-of-e-mails-from-gop-staffers-who-were-forced-to-work-without-face-masks/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/reporter-inundated-with-flood-of-e-mails-from-gop-staffers-who-were-forced-to-work-without-face-masks/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">here is something to learn from Texas — but it’s not what Fox News wants you to believe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Laura Ingraham speaking with attendees at the&nbsp;<b>2018 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Palm Beach</b>&nbsp;County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. // Gage Skidmore [she is wearing a cross]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Mark Sumner / Daily Kos July 30, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Wednesday evening, Fox News person<b>&nbsp;Laura Ingraham issued a tweet bragging that Texas was “looking pretty good” and sneering that this is “Bad news for the ‘Shut it all Down’ Democrats.”</b>&nbsp;</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">And then, with perfect timing, Texas announced another 9,200 new cases of COVID-19 and a record-shattering 313 deaths.&nbsp;</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Which isn’t exactly evidence that it’s time to throw a party in Texas.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Still … there’s actually a kernel of truth behind Ingraham’s post. It’s not that Texas is doing “good,” and the still-rising numbers of recorded deaths is a gut-punch. However, the rate of growth has slowed in Texas. It’s just that it’s slowed for a reason that Ingraham, Fox, or Trump are not going to mention—for a name that Democrats fully support.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here’s Ingraham’s original tweet, which shows just how ridiculous the “looking good” comment really is.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But here’s the same data with something else in the picture.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">What can be seen in this image is something that happened on&nbsp;</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">July 2. That’s when Governor Greg Abbott, facing a rising tide of cases, abruptly reversed himself and issued a&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">mask mandate for the majority of Texas counties</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That action didn’t have immediate effect, because the virus takes some time to be transmitted from person to person, and days more for symptoms to appear.&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">However, just ten days after that order went into effect, the 7-day trend line of cases in Texas leveled off. Two weeks after that order went into effect, the number of new cases began to drop.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There are definitely problems with enforcement in some counties, and Abbott’s order could be simpler and less easily waved away with “exceptions,” but Texas appears to demonstrate, once again, that masks work.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What’s the evidence that masks have something to do with what’s happening in Texas and not some mystical effect of hitting a magic percentage of the population? Florida. That’s the evidence. Until the mask order went into place, the trends in the two southern states was remarkably similar.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the day that Abbott issued the mask mandate, the difference in the total number of cases in Florida and Texas was less than 7000. For the next week, the two states went up in tandem. Then … Florida began to edge ahead. From a 4,000 case gap on July 11, Florida moved ahead by over 47,000 cases on July 28. Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis has stubbornly refused to take any definitive action, is paying a price in tens of thousands of cases. Those cases will turn into hundreds of deaths.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If Abbott continues the mask mandate, and counties step up enforcement, it’s likely that in another month things in Texas will look better. Not “good” as Ingraham would have it, but better. Better as in a sharp reduction in new cases, an ease in overcrowded hospitals, and a drop in the indicator that always lags behind the others — deaths.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the meantime, Florida’s numbers are about to start looking a whole lot better without a mask mandate. Because the state testing authority has announced that, with the tropical storm about to strike the state, testing is going to be suspended for at least five days.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Just enough time for DeSantis to run a quick victory lap.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thursday, Jul 30, 2020 · 9:08:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time · Mark Sumner</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One addition note: It’s now clear that Texas, like Florida, has been under reporting COVID-19 deaths. The scheme in both states appears to involve overlooking the rulings made by county officials and failing to incorporate deaths into the state-wide reporting. How Texas will handle these previously unreported deaths is not yet clear.</font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/for-the-american-right-masks-are-tyranny-but-secret-police-arent/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/for-the-american-right-masks-are-tyranny-but-secret-police-arent/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Not long ago, heavily armed white men (and a handful of white women)&nbsp;stood on the steps of Michigan’s Capitol. They were protesting the governor’s lock down amid the spread of the new coronavirus. Gretchen Whitmer, they said, was infringing on their constitutional rights and liberties. They were showing they would not stand for it.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">It was a nice bit of political theater that has since grown nationally into a battle over wearing masks. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Refuse to wear one, and you support the president. Wear one, and you don’t. But beneath the protests was something members of the press corps believed they should take seriously: a conservative ideology ever watchful of corrupt power.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It should be clear to the press corps, and to a citizenry informed by the press corps, that those protests had nothing to do with the tyranny of government. It should be clear that when they said, “Don’t tread on me,” that didn’t include you. It should be clear, to everyone, that such protests weren’t principled. I’m not going to argue what they were&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">really</em>&nbsp;about. Maybe small men with small minds need to act up. What I do know: if there’s anything worthy of armed resistance, it’s the emergence of Donald Trump’s secret police force. Yet here we are. As far as I can tell, nothing but crickets.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The secret police are real.</b> Groups of heavily armed and unidentified federal agents in military dress have been gassing peaceful protesters in Portland, Oregon, under the guise of protecting “federal facilities,” meaning monuments. We now know they are with Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, among other agencies under the US Department of Homeland Security. These are the same agencies that gassed peaceful protesters out of Washington’s Lafayette Square so the president could do a photo shoot with a Bible in front of a church. Videos online have shown officers in Portland taking protesters into custody without reading their rights, loading them into unmarked vans, and threatening to shoot anyone attempting to follow them.</font></p><div class="alt_ad_block true_ad_free story-page-in-content-graph-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="alt_ad_msg" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 10px; background: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><div class="header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">AD REMOVED FOR SUBSCRIBED USER</div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Its activity goes beyond&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">disappearing</em>&nbsp;citizens amid social upheaval. The&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Oregonian</em>, the state’s paper of record, reported Monday that “protecting” monuments from protesters seeking justice for the murder of George Floyd, in addition to greater racial equality over all, now includes spying on them as well as infiltrating their ranks. It reported: “The court records provide a window into the tactics of federal agencies based at the courthouse in downtown Portland at a time when local, state and congressional officials from Oregon have roundly criticized the national law enforcement presence.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Its authority is broadly drawn. According to a classified document obtained by&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lawfare</em>’s Steve Vladeck and Benjamin Wittes, DHS is not only “protecting” federal monuments but those not under its purview, and it has authorized domestic spying as a means of pursuing that end. “The memo makes clear that the authorized intelligence activity covers significantly&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">more&nbsp;</em>than just planned attacks on federal personnel or facilities. It appears to also include planned vandalism of Confederate (and other historical) monuments and statues,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">whether federally owned or not</em>” (my italics).&nbsp;Such an expansive view of federal police power is ripe for corruption, leading some of us (me!) to worry that a president in desperate need of winning a second term might use a secret police force to harass and intimidate Americans of color as they wait in line to vote, or even detain them under suspicion of attempting to commit voter fraud.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The question should’t be whether to protect federal monuments (that’s for another time), but instead who’s doing the protecting? A conservative of a mind to protest a governor’s lock down should also be of a mind to tell the federal government to butt out of state and local affairs, whether the monuments are federally owned or not. The sovereignty of the states of the United States is the load-bearing wall of American conservatism. It is to be protected even if outcomes are harmful, as was the case when GOP attorneys general sued to overturn the Affordable Care Act. We don’t need the federal government to care for us, the thinking went. We can take care of ourselves.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the time, that seemed principled, but the same people, as far as I can tell, now have little or nothing to say about expansive and potentially corrupt police power that blurs the line between state and national governments, undermining a principle that they used to say was central to the American idea of freedom. When people walk all over values they once said were nonnegotiable, it’s time to stop taking them seriously.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Without principle, white man with long guns cannot protest legitimately, because without principle, they’re nothing but dangerous white men with long guns.</font></p></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7/19/20</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/fox-news-peddled-misinformation-about-the-coronavirus-253-times-in-five-days-study/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/fox-news-peddled-misinformation-about-the-coronavirus-253-times-in-five-days-study/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A new&nbsp;study finds that Fox News&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/12/unproven-drug-treatment-for-coronavirus-championed-by-trump-and-fox-news-shows-no-benefit-study/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">peddled&nbsp;misinformation</a>&nbsp;about the coronavirus pandemic 253 times in only five days. The documented instances included&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/29/tucker-carlson-exposed-as-coronavirus-truther-how-the-fox-news-host-masks-conspiracies-in-populism/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">claims which undermined science</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/27/study-fox-news-viewership-linked-to-higher-non-compliance-with-stay-at-home-orders/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">faith in experts</a>,&nbsp;as well as demands&nbsp;that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/16/bless-you-fox-news-stars-shower-blessings-upon-protesters-for-violating-coronavirus-restrictions/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">schools and businesses reopen at the risk of public health</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/06/17/hydroxychloroquine-truther-laura-ingraham-urges-trump-campaign-to-ignore-alarmist-covid-drivel/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Primetime host Laura Ingraham</a>, who has no medical or scientific background whatsoever, led the pack with about a quarter of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/05/fox-news-laura-ingraham-falsely-claims-there-was-no-real-scientific-basis-for-social-distancing/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the claims</a>&nbsp;— 63 total, or just more than 12 per show.&nbsp;Additionally,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/02/as-covid-deaths-mounted-lindsey-graham-kept-moving-the-goalposts-for-trump/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the network’s “straight news” programs contributed</a>&nbsp;about 35% of the misinformation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-pushed-coronavirus-misinformation-253-times-just-five-days" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">study</a>, published Thursday by media watchdog Media Matters for America, was conducted from July 6 to 10&nbsp;—&nbsp;the week after a Yahoo News&nbsp;<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/as-coronavirus-surges-fox-news-shifts-its-message-on-masks-200834996.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">report</a>&nbsp;proclaimed that Fox’s coronavirus coverage had taken a “remarkable turn” for the better:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border: none !important;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However haltingly and incompletely, the president’s favorite news outlet has started to acknowledge, across various programs and its news site, that the coronavirus is a far graver threat than even [President Donald] Trump himself will acknowledge.</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>That report cited two articles on the network’s website and two instances of Fox News personalities&nbsp;Sean Hannity and Steve Doocy making remarks about masks that, while stopping short of endorsements, did not mock them outright.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The article also pointed out that Fox News requires its employees to wear masks at work&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jeremymbarr/status/1273692843161325571" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">most of the time</a>.&nbsp;Additionally, the network appears to have canceled a Fox Nation show about the pandemic hosted by coronavirus conspiracy theorist Alex Berenson, though extant episodes remain available.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">new&nbsp;study finds that Fox News&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/12/unproven-drug-treatment-for-coronavirus-championed-by-trump-and-fox-news-shows-no-benefit-study/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">peddled&nbsp;misinformation</a>&nbsp;about the coronavirus pandemic 253 times in only five days. The documented instances included&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/29/tucker-carlson-exposed-as-coronavirus-truther-how-the-fox-news-host-masks-conspiracies-in-populism/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">claims which undermined science</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/27/study-fox-news-viewership-linked-to-higher-non-compliance-with-stay-at-home-orders/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">faith in experts</a>,&nbsp;as well as demands&nbsp;that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/16/bless-you-fox-news-stars-shower-blessings-upon-protesters-for-violating-coronavirus-restrictions/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">schools and businesses reopen at the risk of public health</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/06/17/hydroxychloroquine-truther-laura-ingraham-urges-trump-campaign-to-ignore-alarmist-covid-drivel/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Primetime host Laura Ingraham</a>, who has no medical or scientific background whatsoever, led the pack with about a quarter of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/05/fox-news-laura-ingraham-falsely-claims-there-was-no-real-scientific-basis-for-social-distancing/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the claims</a>&nbsp;— 63 total, or just more than 12 per show.&nbsp;Additionally,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/02/as-covid-deaths-mounted-lindsey-graham-kept-moving-the-goalposts-for-trump/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the network’s “straight news” programs contributed</a>&nbsp;about 35% of the misinformation.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The data in the Media Matters study&nbsp;flatly contradicts the isolated examples from the Yahoo report. Here is a quick breakdown:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 50px; list-style: none;"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">About half the incidents — 115 claims — challenged scientific consensus and undermined official government recommendations, such as social distancing and masking guidelines.</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The&nbsp;<b>Ingraham Angle”&nbsp;was the clear leader of the pack, pushing misinformation 63 times, more than half of which came&nbsp;from Ingraham herself, who undermined science a staggering 21 times in five days</b>.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox & Friends”&nbsp;took second place with 45 instances; “Hannity” and “Tucker Carlson Tonight” finished in a dead heat for third, clocking 21 and 20 instances, respectively.</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Straight news programs delivered more than a third of the misinformation, led by Martha MacCallum’s “The Story” with 20 claims.</b></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Eight claims defended or endorsed unproven remedies such as hydroxychloroquine,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;days after the FDA told people&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-cautions-against-use-hydroxychloroquine-or-chloroquine-covid-19-outside-hospital-setting-or" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">not to take it</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;outside of hospitals or clinical trials.</span></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The&nbsp;<b>network politicized the pandemic 63 times, including 51 claims that regulations requiring masks and closing businesses were rooted in politics&nbsp;and 10 false claims linking recent racial justice protests to a surge in new infections.</b></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Hosts advocated 34 times to disregard public health concerns in favor of reopening the country’s more than 100,000&nbsp;K-12 schools.</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The misinformation and the seeming&nbsp;coordination with official White House talking points has raised alarm among experts.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For instance, in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-says-fauci-made-lot-mistakes-n1233402" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a “Hannity” interview July 10</a>, the last day covered in the study, Trump responded to a question about the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, by saying “he’s made a lot of mistakes.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That interview fed an ongoing&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/13/white-house-sends-oppo-dump-im-attempt-to-discredit-fauci-after-he-disputes-trump-on-coronavirus/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">White House effort to discredit Fauci</a>, who&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/trump-fauci-coronavirus-pandemic-oppo/614224/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">pushed back</a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;calling such efforts “bizarre.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Ultimately, it hurts the president,” he said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then there is the matter of schools. The network and the administration, including Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, for weeks trumpeted an American Academy of Pediatrics statement advising&nbsp;a measured reopening of schools.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The misinformation’s momentum eventually compelled the academy — together with with the two largest educators’ unions in the country and the School Superintendents Association —&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href="https://services.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2020/pediatricians-educators-and-superintendents-urge-a-safe-return-to-school-this-fall/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">clarify</a>&nbsp;its statement. It now says&nbsp;that reopening “will clearly require substantial new investments in our schools and campuses,” and calls on Congress and the administration “to provide the federal resources needed” to safely educate and care for students.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an earlier&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/20/fox-news-coronavirus-coverage-decreased-more-than-40-over-the-past-month-study-reveals/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Media Matters audit</a>&nbsp;of the cable network, Fox News posted a 20% decline in its coronavirus coverage between March and May.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But this unrelenting misinformation campaign comes amid a massive surge in COVID-19 infections, which has ravaged healthcare resources in Sun Belt states such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/14/texas-and-arizona-request-refrigerated-trucks-as-morgues-run-out-of-space-to-store-coronavirus-dead/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Arizona</a>, California, Florida&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/11/austin-mayor-steve-adler-on-battling-the-pandemic-when-this-virus-comes-it-comes-fast/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">and Texas</a>. In recent weeks, the U.S.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/world/coronavirus-updates.html#link-7ee57c33" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">has set</a>&nbsp;seven records for daily new cases, topping 68,000 on July 10, the same day which&nbsp;Trump, who said on numerous occasions that the virus would “miraculously” disappear in April, told Hannity that Fauci had “made a lot of mistakes.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, many states&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/more-states-reverse-or-slow-reopening-plans-as-coronavirus-cases-climb.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">are walking back</a>&nbsp;reopening measures. California closed restaurants, movie theaters and bars. Arizona&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/30/arizona-rolls-back-reopening-as-coronavirus-cases-grow-in-majority-of-us-states.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">also shuttered</a>&nbsp;movie theaters and bars, plus gyms and water parks.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On July 13, Fox Business host Lou Dobbs wondered “what in hell is going on” as closures increased. Dr. Marc Siegel, a Fox medical expert,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-business/fox-medical-contributor-marc-siegel-criticizes-states-covid-surges-rolling-back" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">criticized</a>&nbsp;the policies as “not consistent,” “punitive” and “draconian.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>However, there are some fractures within the network. A study from April showed that viewers of Hannity were more likely to die of COVID-19 than Carlson’s viewers. Now, the two seem neck-and-neck in misinformation.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Carlson, who in June&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/02/what-tucker-carlson-is-doing-with-his-newfound-clout-attacking-republicans/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">broke Hannity’s all-time ratings record</a>, recently claimed there was&nbsp;“no evidence” that</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> masks</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> help constrain the pandemic,&nbsp;in contradiction of&nbsp;guidance from the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Hannity, meanwhile, took the opposite view.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">“I went to my grocery store every week. Guess what?” the host recently asked. “They wore masks. Nobody at my grocery store, thank God, got coronavirus.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">“I think they work,” he added.</font></p></div><div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/anti-mask-facebook-groups-are-rife-dangerous-misinformation-about-spread-and-prevention"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/anti-mask-facebook-groups-are-rife-dangerous-misinformation-about-spread-and-prevention</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Media Matters identified at least 55 Facebook groups, most of which are private, dedicated to protesting the use of masks</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WRITTEN BY KAYLA GOGARTY & COURTNEY HAGLE</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PUBLISHED 07/09/20&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As the number of new coronavirus cases surges across the country and mitigation strategies such as wearing masks are recommended or required in some areas for public health, Facebook groups with thousands of members are dedicated to promoting harmful misinformation about wearing masks.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that “people wear cloth face coverings in public settings” and while interacting with people not living in the same household -- especially in instances where social distance is difficult to maintain -- to reduce coronavirus transmission via respiratory droplets. That recommendation is based on what is currently known about the virus and emerging evidence of the effectiveness of these coverings in reducing the spread. Public health experts agree with the CDC recommendation.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As the spread of misinformation online continues to hamstring efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic, Facebook claimed it would “remove COVID-19 related misinformation that could contribute to imminent physical harm.” Facebook has previously removed videos that falsely suggest that wearing a mask can make people sick, acknowledging that such claims violate its policies -- but only after the misleading videos had already received millions of engagements on the platform. Facebook has struggled to contain the spread of coronavirus misinformation, particularly videos, and the platform remains a hotbed for coronavirus misinformation, from viral anti-mask Facebook posts to scammers promoting bogus coronavirus cures.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Media Matters found at least 55 Facebook groups dedicated to opposing the use of masks to reduce the spread of COVID-19. These groups have a total of over 57,000 members, with more than 10 groups that have over 1,000 members and one group with over 20,000 members. </b>Although some groups were created as far back as April, the majority of them have been created since June 17, with eight such groups created in the first week of July. One Georgia-based anti-mask group, which was created on July 3, already has over 600 members.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">With more Facebook groups against masks being created and membership in these groups growing, misinformation about masks can quickly spread on the social media platform. And as nearly 70% of the groups identified by Media Matters are private, it will likely be more difficult for Facebook to review harmful content. For example, one viral post filled with misinformation about masks has been posted in at least seven Facebook groups.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of posts on group pages</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Facebook posts with identical text that contain misinformation and were posted in seven groups&nbsp;</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Media Matters reviewed posts in some of the Facebook groups and found that many of these groups are filled with harmful medical misinformation about masks. In addition to this harmful misinformation, there are also members sharing conspiracy theories about masks being a form of government control, repeating misinformation from President Donald Trump, promoting in-person rallies, encouraging others not to wear masks, and organizing lawsuits against mask mandates.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of event pages</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Three event pages on Facebook for protests against the use of masks</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Here are some examples of harmful misinformation about masks from 10 anti-mask Facebook groups, each with over 1,000 members:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bare Face is Legal (private group with over 20,000 members)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On July 1, a member of the group shared a meme claiming that “forcing people to wear masks has nothing to do with safety” and calling it “an experiment to see who’s a follower and who isn’t.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a post from July 7, a member suggested that wearing masks could cause the “death of children.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In another post on July 7, a member asked for “studies on why the mask is unnecessary.” Other members shared links to anti-vaccine websites and an op-ed written in Townhall by Ted Noel, who has previously fueled right-wing conspiracy theories.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Million Unmasked March (private group with over 6,800 members)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On June 30, a member shared a video from Del Bigtree, who is a leading figure in the anti-vaccine movement. In the video, which has earned nearly 30,000 interactions (reactions, comments, shares) on Facebook, Bigtree claimed to perform a test that proves masks are “toxic for children.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a post on June 29, a member said that the media knows masks are “ineffective” and claimed, without evidence, that the “reality of the masks” includes “deprivation of oxygen and the inhalation of CO2... and the psychologically damaging aspects of this,” and will even “exacerbate” seasonal illnesses in children. The member went on to write they are “starting to wonder if the actual plan is to sicken our children so they can sicken us and drive us to get a vaccination.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On July 3, a member posted a meme that inaccurately claimed, “There is no scientific evidence that wearing a cloth mask will reduce the spread of COVID-19.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Call to action against Washington mask requirements (private group with over 6,000 members)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On July 7, a member posted a link to commentary from Denis Rancourt, a controversial former physics professor. In the commentary, which has not been published in a scientific journal, Rancourt said that “masks and respirators do not prevent transmission of viruses” and claimed that it “illustrates the degree to which governments, the mainstream media, and institutional propagandists can decide to operate in a science vacuum, or select only incomplete science that serves their interests.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In response to a post on July 6 questioning the efficacy of masks, several group members claimed that masks are “useless,” saying that “healthy people shouldn’t wear masks,” and called people wearing masks “sheeple.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On June 19, one member shared a website claiming “MASKS DON’T WORK” and promoted debunked misinformation that masks can lead to “carbon dioxide toxicity.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Unmasked CT (private group with over 3,000 members)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In response to a member of the group asking for links showing masks are harmful that they can send to their child’s school speech therapist, other group members provided commentary and sent videos from discredited figures in the anti-vaccine movement.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In response to a post on July 6 criticizing people who wear masks, one member claimed that “this entire virus is nonsense” but said even if it was true that asymptomatic people can spread COVID-19, not wearing masks “helps towards [herd] immunity.” Another member made the unsubstantiated claim that “83% of people who LIVED with a covid patient were NOT infected.”&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On July 7, one member posted a video of a physician in Texas who claimed to have anecdotal evidence of success treating COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquine, which has not been proven to be an effective treatment, and said that wearing masks “prevents us from developing passive immunity, so if you’re out in the public and you contract some disease and you develop antibodies to this, you could passively, potentially give your antibodies to someone else and their own immune system might develop immunity to the same disease.” The video posted in Unmasked CT appears to have been removed by Facebook, but had already been viewed over 850,000 times.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ohioans Against Mandatory Masks (private group with over 1,900 members)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a post on July 7, a member called masks a “pseudo-medical device” and made unsubstantiated claims that they are ineffective and prevent people’s “ability to breathe oxygen unobstructed.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In response to a member asking for an article about “how masks are dangerous to health” on July 5, other group members posted a link to Rancourt’s commentary and a flyer that said masks decrease oxygen intake, increase toxin inhalation, and shut down the immune system.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On July 7, one member shared a video with Kelly Victory, a Colorado doctor who has been spreading conspiracy theories about the virus. In the video, which has more than 1 million views, Victory said, “There is no scientific justification for normal, healthy people to be wearing masks. In fact, prolonged mask wearing actually increases the risk of disease to the wearer.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mask Free PA (private group with over 1,600 members)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In response to a post on July 5 from a group administrator, members made unsubstantiated claims about masks lowering oxygen levels, raising blood pressure, and causing excess carbon dioxide levels. One member also shared a video from an anti-vaccine figure claiming the “levels of carbon dioxide inside a mask” would “shock any parent.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On July 5, an administrator of the group posted a meme with a logo mimicking the Pennsylvania Department of Health, which said: “By making such a half-hearted effort, your mask only says you want people to THINK you care about others. Drop the pretense. Drop the mask.” Other members responded to the post with claims that masks are toxic for children and that doctors agree “masks do nothing outside of medical facilities.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>In a post on July 7, a member of the group posted a meme listing reasons why they don’t wear a mask, which included “I like breathing oxygen,” “99.9% survival rate,” and “I don’t believe in hoaxes</b>.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Keep Florida Open and End Mandatory Mask Wearing (public group with over 1,600 members)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On June 18, one member posted a graphic pushing misinformation about the impact and effectiveness of people wearing a mask.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Keep Florida Open and End Mandatory Mask Wearing Facebook post screenshot 1</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A July 7 post displayed a warning on a box of masks in order to discredit the use of masks more broadly.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Keep Florida Open and End Mandatory Mask Wearing Facebook post screenshot 2</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Another post from July 2 shared a meme arguing that Muslims who have “worn face coverings their entire life” are “still reported to have COVID-19” as evidence that face masks don’t work.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Keep Florida Open and End Mandatory Mask Wearing Facebook post screenshot 3</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No Mask High Five Challenge (public group with over 1,100 members)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On July 7, a member posted a graphic detailing the “science” against wearing masks with the caption “Face masks are pure BS.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No Mask High Five Challenge Facebook post screenshot 1</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A July 6 post featured a link to a YouTube video by Rashid Buttar titled “What face masks actually do to your health,” which was labeled “false information” by independent fact-checkers (YouTube has previously removed Buttar’s videos for pushing coronavirus misinformation).</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No Mask High Five Challenge Facebook post screenshot 2</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On June 25, a member shared a “face mask exempt card” that was also labeled “false information” by independent fact-checkers.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No Mask High Five Challenge Facebook post screenshot 3</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mohave County AZ Against Mandatory Face Masks (public group with over 1,100 members)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On July 5, one member posted a graphic arguing that if masks really worked, businesses shouldn’t need to be closed.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mohave County AZ Against Mandatory Face Masks Facebook post screenshot 1</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Another July 4 post argued that masks are “a mind control device.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mohave County AZ Against Mandatory Face Masks Facebook post screenshot 2</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On July 7, one user posted a graphic detailing supposed “facts” about “face mask safety,” including claims that wearing a mask could shut down your immune system or increase risk of contracting the virus.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mohave County AZ Against Mandatory Face Masks Facebook post screenshot 3</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ANTI-MASK 2020 (private group with over 1,000 members)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On July 7, one member shared an article about mitigation of flu transmission as justification to claim that masks are ineffective against coronavirus transmission. In response to the flawed argument, another member claimed that Chinese people had contracted coronavirus even though they “wear masks even without a pandemic.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a post on July 6, a member posted a meme, which has also been shared in other anti-mask Facebook groups, that listed supposed reasons why they don’t wear a mask.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On July 7, a group moderator shared a video of anti-vaccine figure Michael Gaeta, who claims to provide “wholistic health education,” including a course “dispelling vaccine myths.” In the video, Gaeta said, “What’s become super clear is that there is no scientific evidence to support the use of the masks. It is based on assumptions, and it’s based on basically propaganda, is what it amounts to, and we’re making this sweeping public health requirement for massive parts of the country and the world without any actual basis in science, evidence, or data.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Image of post on group page</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">THE LATEST</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fox hosts shout down colleague for saying Trump called Mexicans “rapists</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">07/10/20 6:02 PM EDT</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Facebook may ban political ads in the days leading up to the election. 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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>How Fox News helped turn masks into another culture war flashpoint</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WRITTEN BY MATT GERTZ</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PUBLISHED 07/01/20 8:17 AM EDT</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Novel coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are once again soaring in the United States, with new epicenters in Republican-led states like Arizona, Texas, and Florida. In response, numerous Republican leaders have finally started urging Americans to wear masks in public spaces to slow the spread of the virus. But those GOP officials are fighting against figures with at least as strong a hold on their supporters as they have -- Fox News stars like Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Carlson, Ingraham, and several of their colleagues have denounced masks and those who promote them, even as evidence has accumulated that masks are one of the most effective countermeasures against the coronavirus. </b>The network’s viewers have been told that mask usage is not only ineffective, but part of a conspiracy by Democrats and the media to keep Americans living in fear and under their control.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The explanation for why masks work is simple: The coronavirus largely spreads through expelled respiratory droplets, making an infected person less likely to pass it along if they are blocking their nose and mouth with a covering. But it isn’t enough for only people who suspect they may have the virus to wear masks -- many infected people are asymptomatic or presymptomatic, meaning that they could spread the virus to other people without knowing they have it. And while professional-grade masks are the most effective, supplies of them remain limited and are needed for health care workers. That’s why, in early April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reversed its earlier flawed guidance and recommended that all Americans wear cloth face coverings in public spaces. Research suggests that adopting widespread mask usage in this fashion could prove critical for limiting the spread of the virus.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But that evidence hasn’t convinced everyone, particularly on the right. President Donald Trump is notably reluctant to don a mask, refusing to set the same positive example for the country as his presumptive Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Plandemic conspiracy theory video, which racked up millions of views on social media earlier this year, falsely alleged that masks “activate” the virus. And Fox personalities like Carlson and Ingraham have treated the mask debate as little more than another opportunity to own the libs.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Others at Fox have behaved more responsibly -- and in line with the network’s corporate position, which urges mask use in the public spaces of Fox’s headquarters. On Tuesday morning, <b>Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy pressed for Trump to “be a good role model” and wear a mask. Prime-time host Sean Hannity frequently speaks out on the importance of wearing masks (albeit not to Trump’s face), </b>saying on Monday night that he wears one himself when he goes out because “they work.”&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The split on masks is part of a broader Fox divide about the response to the coronavirus. While the network’s leading personalities have been united in urging a swift end to the business closures and stay-at-home orders governors implemented to slow the spread of the virus, there are two camps as to how to accomplish that aim. Some Fox figures, like Hannity, have called for the adoption of new procedures such as mask usage that they say would allow that reopening process to happen safely. Others, like Carlson and Ingraham, have fixated on trying to debunk all the measures that public health experts say would be effective.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Studies and polls suggest that Fox’s coverage has had a powerful impact on its viewers’ perception of the pandemic -- and the actions they take to keep themselves and others safe. </b>Poll respondents who say they watch Fox frequently or occasionally are much less likely to say they wear masks than those who never watch it, according to a poll from Daily Kos/Civiqs released Wednesday. And because Trump watches the network religiously and takes advice from its programming, Fox has also shaped the federal response to the virus.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A full-fledged effort by Fox to champion masks could have increased their usage and saved lives. Instead, too many of the network’s personalities decided to do what they always do: trying to divide Americans for political gain. And they appear to have succeeded.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">TUCKER CARLSON</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Carlson knows that masks are an effective tool in fighting the coronavirus. “Of course masks work,” he said in late March. “Everyone knows that. Dozens of research papers have proved it.”</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the Fox host has been loath to focus on that central point by urging his prime-time audience of 4 million people to wear face coverings so fewer of them might die. Instead, he’s been lashing out at Democrats, the media, and public health experts for doing so, castigating those culture war villains as tyrants or hypocrites.&nbsp;</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On May 5, for example, Carlson seized on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s comment at a press briefing that “you could literally kill someone because you didn't want to wear a mask.” Rather than amplifying the message that mask usage saves lives, Carlson focused on Cuomo not wearing a mask during the event.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Do they hear themselves when they talk like this? On some level they do. They know they are <b>hypocritical frauds,</b>” Carlson sneered. “And that's exactly why they lecture you so hysterically, it makes them feel better. They probably suspect you know it, too. It's just so obvious.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Later in the program, “COVID contrarian” Alex Berenson, a regular Carlson guest, criticized officials for “spending time haranguing us about masks and destroying the economy with lockdowns.”&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Carlson replied, “It sounds like you're suggesting that some of the people espousing these measures -- which are really warping and destroying, in some cases, our society -- know that they're really not necessary.”&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“If they don't know, they are fools and haven't read the data,” Berenson responded.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The following week, Carlson focused his mask commentary on deceptively criticizing the comments of Dr. Anthony Fauci, </b>the federal government’s top infectious disease expert. Like others in the public health community, Fauci originally recommended against the public wearing masks in the early days of the pandemic, when surgical and N95 masks were in critically short supply and needed for medical workers, but he more recently praised Americans for wearing cloth face coverings.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On May 12, Carlson aired Fauci’s remark that he was happy to see Americans wearing cloth masks in public. “Yes, they're following Fauci's orders, and of course, he is pleased by that,” Carlson commented. “He didn't expect to have this much power at the age of 79.”&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The funny thing is, though, it was just two months ago that Fauci was in the chorus of high officials lecturing the rest of us that actually wearing a mask was pointless -- maybe worse than pointless -- and people shouldn't do it,” Carlson added, before airing Fauci’s comment from months earlier urging the public not to use professional-grade masks urgently needed for doctors and nurses.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Carlson went on to say that Fauci “may be even more off-base than your average epidemiologist” and called him “the chief buffoon.”&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Is this the guy into whom you want to vest all of your trust,” he asked his Fox audience. “Is this the guy you want to chart the future of the country?”&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Carlson returned to the topic the next night, mocking Fauci as “a stone-cold genius who you are not allowed to question” and claiming he “told us that masks do not work, in fact, they may harm you. Now, he is telling us they are completely essential.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Notably, in attacking Fauci for purportedly changing his position on masks, Carlson never got around to explaining which one was correct -- whether his viewers should wear them or not.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On May 15, Carlson lashed out at Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who had implemented a mask order the day before.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The citizens who remain stuck in Los Angeles are effectively hostages of the mayor,” he said. “Garcetti is demanding that anyone who goes outside for any reason as the heat rises in L.A. must wear a mask.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Carlson went on to say, “It goes without saying there is no science to back up this order or any of Garcetti’s so-called health decisions. In fact, it’s possible that requiring masks outside will not prevent a single person from being infected in Los Angeles. But Garcetti doesn’t care. Anyone who disobeys this order will be punished.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Later in the month, Carlson accused CNN host Chris Cuomo of hypocrisy because he “shamed Americans for daring to step outside without a mask” after reportedly not wearing one while infected with COVID-19. As with his criticisms of Fauci and Garcetti, there was no indication from Carlson whether wearing masks is actually a good idea. All that mattered for Carlson is that there were culture war enemies to attack.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But sometimes, Carlson’s show did touch on the actual underlying issue. On June 23, for example, he hosted Berenson again, who argued that “there’s not a lot of evidence that masks would help.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">LAURA INGRAHAM</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Ingraham has been all over the map on masks, largely staking out a position wherever the public health consensus isn’t.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Before public health officials recommended face coverings, Ingraham was a leading promoter of their use for fighting COVID-19. In late March, she used her Twitter feed and Fox program to tout their effectiveness, going so far as to air a YouTube instructional video so viewers could make their own masks at home.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But after the CDC came around to her initial position and recommended the public wear cloth masks, the Fox prime-time host reversed herself. A few days later on April 8, she and Fox contributor Raymond Arroyo mocked Democratic leaders for wearing them improperly. And later that month, after Vice President Mike Pence was criticized for not wearing a face covering during a visit to the Mayo Clinic, she began unleashing unhinged rants painting them as part of a conspiracy.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“They'll say this whole mask thing is ‘settled science’ just like they do with climate change, of course it is not and they know it,” she said on April 29. “Our own experts have gone from masks aren't necessary to masks are essential and you have to wear them when you go jogging in just a few weeks time.”&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She went on to cite talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, who “said the virus itself as it weakens and states start reopening, the media that have been selling panic, panic, panic for weeks and weeks and weeks, they have fewer images to sell their hysteria to justify continued lockdowns.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“But the masks,” she added, “well, they're kind of a constant reminder. You see the mask and you think you are not safe. You are not back to normal. Not even close.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The next night, Ingraham distorted an epidemiologist’s comments to claim that cloth masks are also ineffective.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">She explained that she had worn a mask herself in public spaces early in the pandemic. But after seeing people (presumably liberals) shaming others (presumably conservatives) for not wearing them, she subsequently “started to ask questions” about whether “these masks -- a lot of them are homemade -- really slow the spread of COVID.”&nbsp;</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ingraham said she read an article in Live Science in which May Chu, a clinical professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health, suggested that cloth masks are ineffective because they “only stop about 2% of the airflow coming in.“ But the purpose of cloth masks is to stop droplets going out, not air coming in, and in that interview, Chu said that while cloth masks were less effective than professional-grade ones, she nonetheless recommends them as part of a comprehensive effort to slow the spread of the virus.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Later in the program, Ingraham added that “we did survive many bad flu seasons without everyone wearing masks on planes,” compounding her criticism of masks by minimizing the danger of the coronavirus.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>In late May, as public officials began instituting orders requiring mask use in public and Biden’s appearances wearing a mask began putting more pressure on Trump to do the same, Ingraham unleashed another salvo at face coverings.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“If it's all for safety, then everyone should know this is not a temporary thing,” Ingraham warned on May 26, at the conclusion of an interview with a lawyer who argued that state orders requiring masks might be unconstitutional. “They will -- if they get real power -- pass a rulemaking at the Department of Transportation mandating that masks from here on out on public transportation, whether it's a plane or a bus -- forever, not just now, because, if that's the argument, then you've got to wear it all the time during flu season, forever masked.”&nbsp;</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“It's not just during COVID. It's forever,” she concluded.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">During the same broadcast, she and Arroyo mocked Biden for wearing a mask at a Memorial Day ceremony. Arroyo said Biden had been “virtue-signaling” and looked “grim,” while Trump, who had not donned a mask at his own event that day, “seemed to be aligning himself, visually at least, with that American spirit of defiance in the face of adversity.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Ingraham responded that “blue state governors” were pushing for masks as a “visual to keep people scared” because “they need a visual to keep this narrative going, since the curve has long since been flattened,” though she allowed that she wasn’t “saying it has no use.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Now we're reading stuff about how you can damage yourself by wearing a mask,” she concluded. “We're going to read an article a month from now about how unhygienic masks are now super-spreaders of the virus.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The next night, Ingraham claimed that “some elected officials never liked the free market that much, they’d prefer to keep a lot of you deplorables locked down and afraid. They want you masked -- not just during this virus but until the end of time -- because remember, there will always be another potential virus lurking out there right around the corner.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Don’t you want to protect others?” she added. “What kind of monster are you if you don’t want to wear a mask forever?”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For such a staunch critic of mask-wearing, Ingraham offered an oddly timed semi-endorsement of them earlier this month.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">OTHERS AT FOX</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other Fox personalities to criticize masks on the network include:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Fox contributor Mike Huckabee, who on April 24 described a mask mandate in Houston, Texas, as “trampling the constitutional rights of American citizens.</b>”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fox senior legal analyst Andrew Napolitano, who used a May 21 Fox & Friends appearance to plug his op-ed at FoxNews.com and spitball about whether “the masks that we’re all wearing don’t stop COVID-19” and that thus “we’d be happier if we took care of ourselves rather than the government taking care of us.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fox senior political analyst Brit Hume, who on May 26 defended Trump for not wearing a mask on the grounds that “Biden, like anybody else wearing a mask, looked ridiculous,” and the president “doesn't want to look that way.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade, who slammed Trump’s critics on May 26, saying that “the president's got special things around him like Air Force One, like Secret Service, and he also gets tested every day."</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox regular guest Pam Bondi, who on June 26 compared Biden’s call for a national mask requirement to “Cuba, where Castro makes all school-age children wear the Pioneers’ scarf.” She added, “What's going to be next? Banning guns?”</span></div></div><div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/how-fox-news-helped-turn-masks-another-culture-war-flashpoint" rel="bookmark" class="teaserlink" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; outline: 0px;" /><div class="field field--name-extra-field-mmfa-replacement-primary-image field--type-extra-field field--label-hidden fielditems" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/how-fox-news-helped-turn-masks-another-culture-war-flashpoint" rel="bookmark" class="teaserlink" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; outline: 0px;" /><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/how-fox-news-helped-turn-masks-another-culture-war-flashpoint" rel="bookmark" class="teaserlink" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; 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