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Right-wing media have been arguing for decades that fewer Americans should have the right to vote

Repealing the 19th Amendment, disenfranchising welfare recipients, and requiring a civics test — right-wing media are full of ideas about how to restrict voting

Written by Jack Winstanley

Research contributions from Jack Wheatley & Zachary Pleat

Published 08/10/26

With the midterms approaching, the Trump administration and its allies seem desperate to suppress the vote. The president has pressed Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, a package of legislation that experts say would create new barriers for voters and potentially disenfranchise millions. He has signed executive orders restricting mail voting and pushing for proof of citizenship in voter registration, and there has been significant chatter about sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to polling locations, which analysts say would be illegal.

The executive orders have been struck down, and the SAVE America Act faces an uphill battle in Congress.

President Donald Trump’s efforts to suppress the vote have a significant ideological precedent. For decades, right-wing media have advocated restrictions on voter eligibility, laying the groundwork for Trump and his allies to undermine the upcoming midterms and push for policies that would make it harder for some Americans to vote. In a review of our archives, Media Matters found that primetime hosts, podcasters, columnists, and the like have attacked women’s right to vote, encouraged limiting the vote to property owners or heads of household, and advocated civics tests as a voting eligibility requirement. Some have outright stated that they only want people who share their political beliefs to be eligible to vote, or suggested kicking recipients of government assistance off the voter rolls.

More recently, right-wing media figures and online influencers have claimed that opponents of the SAVE America Act “want to steal elections” and “want the illegals to be able to vote,” continuing a years-long campaign of misinformation about mass election interference and widespread fraud. In light of this supposed fraud and interference, some commentators and election deniers have advocated more policies that could suppress voter turnout: restrictions on mail-in voting, getting “rid of” voting machines, or sending ICE agents to “surround” polling places. Others have called on Trump to sign an executive order declaring a “national emergency” to give himself “king-like powers” over the midterms.

Below we’ve compiled a survey of right-wing media arguing that fewer Americans should vote, going back to 2004.

Right-wing media figures have criticized individual voting, called for a single household vote, or argued that only property owners should be allowed to vote

Right-wing media figures have called for a repeal of the 19th Amendment or otherwise attacked women's right to vote

Right-wing media figures have argued that voters should have a “minimum level of knowledge” of civics or political issues, with some suggesting a test requirement or barring people they disagree with from voting

Right-wing media claim Americans receiving government assistance shouldn’t have the right to vote

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According to the latest reports, Ken Griffin — a prominent Republican donor who spent upwards of $100 million on the last election — has decided who to back in the 2028 presidential race.

Ken Griffiin is famously anti-MAGA, and this latest news represents a growing tide of Republicans who are backing Marco Rubio rather than Vance, the latter of whom was once considered the heir apparent to President Donald Trump but whose star has fallen in recent months.

Griffin’s intentions were revealed during the annual Allen & Company conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, where the billionaire hedge fund manager told financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin he was “predisposed” to support Rubio, whom he backed previously during the 2016 GOP primary. Notably, Griffin donated neither to President Donald Trump’s campaign nor his MAGA Inc. super PAC during the 2024 election, instead throwing his money and platform behind former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.

Neither of the current White House officials has officially thrown their hat into the ring, and according to the Hill, “Vance and Rubio have repeatedly deflected regarding whether they will run to succeed the term-limited Trump in 2028 — with the latter telling Vanity Fair last year he will defer to Vance if the vice president seeks the nomination…Trump has not explicitly endorsed a candidate, with roughly 18 months to go before the Iowa Republican caucuses. But he said last month a Vance-Rubio ticket would be formidable for their Democratic opponents.”

While most polls show Vance firmly in the lead on the question of who will take the GOP nomination in 2028, Republican insiders have spoken of a “shadow” effort to get Rubio elected since early this year. At the same time, Vance experienced a string of high-profile embarrassments, arguably the most looming being the troubled negotiations for peace with Iran that he helmed and fumbled initially. And while he was getting hammered by bad headlines, Rubio was enjoying favorable press and assignments as he accompanied Trump to UFC fights and flew off to make nice with the Pope. As a result, there has been growing buzz around his candidacy.

Some in the Republican Party, however, say that Rubio’s 2028 chances have been overstated.

W. James Antle III of the American Conservative, for example, wrote, of Rubio “being feted as a throwback to pre-Trump Republicanism, which is also why he is currently being overrated for 2028. That’s not to say that a Rubio nomination can’t happen. There are, however, some roadblocks that are being widely ignored in favor of viral clips that make people misty-eyed for the return of Ronald Reagan.” He thinks Rubio will be unable to walk the “tightrope” between MAGA and those who want to see a “major departure” from Trump. Rubio has also been linked to the disastrous war with Iran, and he’s never fared well in a national election.

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter was more unvarnished in her assessment of Rubio, saying he was a “half-wit” whose presidency would be an “unmitigated disaster.”

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On Friday, as news circulated that Iran was reopening the Strait of Hormuz amidst other signals that President Donald Trump’s war against the country may be coming to an end after nearly two months, conservative commentator Ann Coulter had a sarcastic take on the situation.

“Yay. The Strait that was open before we began bombing Iran open, is open again,” she posted to X. “Everybody pretend this is a huge victory for Trump so he'll end this catastrophe.”

Coulter’s tongue-in-cheek remark refers to the fact that the Strait of Hormuz was not an issue until the U.S. and Israel began strikes against Iran at the end of February. Iran closed the Strait in response, wreaking havoc on the global economy. While the Trump Administration famously offered inconsistent justifications for the war at its onset, the asserted goal quickly became the reopening of the economically vital waterway. So as Coulter suggests, Trump is now certain to claim credit for solving a crisis of his own creation.

She is far from the only person to argue that this outcome isn’t the success that the White House claims it is.

“We need to be honest about what we are seeing here,” wrote respected international security expert Phillips P. O’Brien. “The Iranian government is still the same theocratic dictatorship and the Iranian people are in desperate straits after the US promised them liberation. The Iranians still control the Strait of Hormuz, still maintain their right to collect tolls, still have their nuclear program, and have Trump promising to return them $20 billion in frozen assets… Trump has thrown in the towel. A massive strategic failure by the USA.”

Or as former Department of Defense official Ilan Goldenberg put it, “A reasonable deal is better than a return to war and I’ll support it. But let’s remember that this is a colossal failure for Trump and for US interests.” He notes that if Trump hadn’t left the previous Iran nuclear deal, Iran would have faced much harsher restrictions on its nuclear program. And that even having left the deal, the U.S. could likely have negotiated something similar to what has resulted from the war, without “the death and destruction across the Middle East,” the “massive damage to US allies and partners and global relationships,” the “huge use of military resources that will take years to rebuild,” “and significant damage to the global economy.”

Coulter — who has criticized the war on Iran since day one — voted for Trump in 2024, though begrudgingly, saying that he was an “awful, awful person” and that she “can’t trust Trump as far as I can throw him.” At the time, she said she made an “exception” because she wanted “a wall on the border.”

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Over the years, right-wing firebrand author Ann Coulter argued, on various occasions, that the United States needs to "reconsider women's suffrage." And during Trump's second presidency, however, an increasing number of Christian nationalists and MAGA influencers are flat-out calling for the repeal of the 19th Amendment, which, in 1920, gave women nationwide the right to vote.

Dale Patridge, a far-right evangelical Christian nationalist pastor, said, "I think we should repeal the 19th Amendment because I love America." Manosphere influencer Andrew Tate called for the U.S. to "stop letting women vote," and anti-feminist Hanna Pearl Davis repeatedly calls for women to lose their voting rights. Another opponent of women's suffrage is Idaho-based pastor Doug Wilson, an ally of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

In a column published on December 4, The Guardian's Moira Donegan warns that the movement to repeal the 19th Amendment is quite real among Christian nationalists and MAGA Republicans.

"More and more," the progressive observes, "influential voices in the MAGA movement and the far-right Republican Party are calling to strip women of the franchise. It's not that this is strictly a new development. Opposition to women's voting rights has long been a fringe, but persistent, feature of the American right. It's been a favorite hobby horse of extremist preachers; it trended among Trump supporters on social media in the lead-up to the 2016 election, when polls showed that Trump would win if only men voted."

Since 1920, Donegan notes, "opposition to women's right to vote" has "simmered at the extreme edges of political opinion." But increasingly, she emphasizes, MAGA figures are saying the quiet part out loud in 2025.

"Joel Webbon, a pastor and YouTube personality, has been at the forefront of this brand of misogynist Christian reaction….. The opponents of women's suffrage have, for now, no way of enacting their ambition: there is no path to repealing the 19th Amendment," Donegan warns. "But they are part of a growing movement to blame women's advancement — and their increased access, participation and visibility in education, the workforce, politics and public life — for a slew of social problems, from political polarization to economic stagnation to a vague sense of spiritual anomie…. This range of sexisms that have attained mainstream credibility in politics and the press rest on one assumption: that women's citizenship is partial and conditional compared with men's, that we have less of a claim on rights, dignity and public participation than our brothers do."

Donegan adds, "That this assumption is even held is an insult to women's dignity; that it is now so blithely accepted is a sign of how far women’s status has already sunk."

*Moira Donegan's full column for The Guardian is available at this link.

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an 10 25

'It's a conspiracy': Ann Coulter​ slams Trump’s 'Swamp'-like Epstein cover-up

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Opinion. Between 1492 and 1900, millions of Indigenous people across Turtle Island—a term many Native peoples use to refer to North America—died as a result of disease, violence, and forced displacement following European colonization. Scholars estimate between 4 million and 18 million Indigenous people perished during this period. By 1900, the Native American population in what is now the United States had fallen to approximately 237,000.

In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt wrote in the foreword of Edmund S. Curtis’s book, The North American Indian: “The Indian as he has hitherto been is on the point of passing away.” This served as both encouragement and endorsement for Curtis to photograph Native Americans, based on the belief that they were a “vanishing race.”

Apparently, the millions of Indians killed were not enough for right-wing conservative pundit Ann Coulter. Earlier this week, Coulter responded to a video clip of Diné professor Melanie Yazzie advocating for tribal sovereignty by posting on X (formerly Twitter): “We didn't kill enough Indians.”

This wasn’t random hate speech. Coulter was specifically attacking tribal sovereignty and our continued existence.

Her racist post was reportedly viewed over 10 million times.

In the clip, Yazzie, who spoke at a December 3, 2023 "teach in" in Minneapolis encouraged attendees to “lean into the fact that colonizers are scared” and argued that decolonization of the United States could address environmental and other concerns. Rather than engage with the substance of Yazzie’s tribal sovereignty comments, Coulter chose genocidal rhetoric.

Coulter’s since-deleted post drew immediate backlash from Native American tribal leaders and organizations, who denounced it as a dangerous incitement to violence against Native communities.

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. called Coulter’s post “beyond abhorrent” and dangerous hate speech designed to inflict damage on a marginalized community.

“The country frequently seems on the verge of political violence,” Hoskin said. “Coulter’s post implicitly encourages it.”

The National Indian Health Board issued a statement calling Coulter's language “violence—violence that echoes through generations, reopens wounds, and contributes to the devastating rates of depression, suicide, and trauma that too many of our Native youth are forced to carry.”

This language isn’t just hateful rhetoric. It echoes the genocidal violence Native Americans have endured for centuries since European contact. Her post brought me back to the images of frozen bodies at the Wounded Knee massacre in 1890.

A public figure casually suggesting that more Indigenous people should have been killed isn’t protected free speech — it’s incitement cloaked in historical erasure.

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When Pope Francis passed away on Easter Monday this week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) postedon the social platform X, “Evil is being defeated by the hand of God."

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter said, “Good job, JD,” jokingly suggesting that Vice President JD Vance, the last foreign leader to meet the pope before his death, bore some responsibility for it.

In an article published in PoliticoFriday, journalist Jamie Dettmer wrote that this "venom" from MAGA after the Pope's death is not surprising.

ALSO READ:A progressive Pope? Here are Francis' greatest reforms and controversies

"MAGA stalwarts never hesitate to use personal invective and hyperbole to smear and intimidate — it’s their way of grabbing attention while seeking to break opponents and discipline institutions that won’t bend the knee, whether church, university or media outlet," he wrote. "And Francis, who was no friend to populist nationalism, certainly infuriated them."

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The article notes that Benjamin Harnwell — a close associate of former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, who has been working to create a right-wing “gladiator school” at a monastery in Lazio near Rome — wasted no time likening Francis to King Herod, the ancient Roman ruler in Judea who, as recounted in the Bible, ordered the massacre of all male infants in Bethlehem, fearing that Jesus was among them.

In an interview with Politico regarding the aggressive tone of his statements, Harnwell acknowledged that he would be a hypocrite for adhering to “your norms of compassion." He went on to say, “I’m very glad he’s dead.”

"The irony is that MAGA leaders are now marching in lockstep with a deep state — in this case, the Vatican’s cloistered and rigidly doctrinaire insiders, who would like to turn the clock back not just to before Francis but preferably to before John XXIII’s liberalizing reforms of the 1960s," wrote Dettmer, who is the opinion editor of Politico Europe.

ALSO READ:Megyn Kelly unleashes on Pope Francis just one day after his death

"Francis began skirmishing with MAGA during U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term in 2016, criticizing Trump’s plans to build a 'big beautiful wall' along the southern U.S. border. At a Mass in Ciudad Juárez, he said that a 'a person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,'" Dettmer wrote.

The writer further said, "Then, in 2017, Francis warned against rising populist movements, cautioning that they could lead to a new Hitler. Noting that Germany in 1933 was the most obvious example of populism in Europe, 'in times of crisis, we lack judgement,' he told Spain’s El Pais newspaper. 'Hitler didn’t steal the power, his people voted for him, and then he destroyed his people.'"

Dettmer notes that while President Donald Trump didn't directly attack him, MAGA figures targeted the pope because they viewed Francis as a major proponent of global progressivism and an adversary to their movement. Among them, Bannon notably sought support from affluent allies in the U.S. and Europe, particularly traditionalist church members unhappy with Francis' reforms and limitations on the Latin Mass. He aimed to purchase the aforementioned Lazio monastery, Certosa di Trisulti, as part of this effort, per the article.

Meanwhile, Catholics globally are getting ready for Pope Francis' funeral this Saturday in Rome. Some conservative Catholics in the United States are sharing their hopes for a new pope and voicing their criticisms of the former pontiff.

ALSO READ:Pope's Easter address denounces 'contempt' for migrants following meeting with Vance

Despite the criticisms, Francis continued to enjoy popularity among conservatives in the U.S A February poll by the Pew Research Center indicated that 70 percent of Republican-leaning Catholics viewed Francis favorably.

ALSO READ:'Bizarre in many ways': Libertarian reveals what’s behind far right’s 'war on empathy'

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1st to jump ship in order to look smart? influential

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as Donald Trump's defense secretary pick, Fox News host Pete Hegseth, faces sexual assault allegations, longtime right-wing commentator Ann Coulter is blasting the MAGA pick on allegations of adultery, Mediaite reports.

"In all of this talk about whether Pete Hegseth is an abuser of women, no one even mentioned that he is a serial adulterer! Are we a society that doesn’t care about adultery anymore?"

Per NJ.com, "Documents surfaced after his nomination that accused Hegseth of sexual assault in 2017. A woman told police that she was sexually assaulted after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave, according to a detailed investigative report made public late."

READ MORE:**'Going to come after you': Inside a Cabinet pick's lawsuit against a former Trump official**

But that's not Coulter's main concern.

"Adultery hasn’t even been mentioned," she said on a recent episode of Unsafe with Ann Coulter podcast.

According to Mediate, the conservative host continued:

*And Pete Hegseth is well known to have now been married on his third marriage. Gets married, gets his wife pregnant, little kids at home or kid at home — I don’t know the details. Starts having sex with his producer, dumps his first wife, married his producer, gets her pregnant. Again, she’s either pregnant or she’s home with kid or kids, and then commits adultery on her. Dumps the second wife, and now, I guess is, let’s hope happily married to his third wife. The fact that it was three times, and this sleazy, and everyone at Fox News knew about it is one thing. But seriously, does no one-, no one is even mentioning the adultery! I’m sorry, this is liberals winning. This is liberals changing our culture in this subtle and insidious way where the only rules that matter are the feminist rules, not the rules that have protected women for millennia, like don’t cheat on your wife.

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off my radar a while?

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The Rome News-Tribune

Ann Coulter: The Enemy of My Enemy Is RFK

Columnist Ann Coulter criticizes public health leaders like Fauci for missteps during COVID, including mask mandates, vaccine policies,...

.2 days ago

C-SPAN

Washington Journal: Ann Coulter Discusses Campaign 2024

Author & columnist Ann Coulter discussed Campaign 2024, her views on Former President Donald Trump, the evolution of Republican politics and her writing career.

.Aug 11, 2024

MSN

Vivek Ramaswamy Says Ann Coulter’s Belief He Can’t Be President Because He’s Indian is ‘Widespread’ in America

Vivek Ramaswamy told Patrick Bet-David that a lot more voters than he expected agree with Ann Coulter not voting for him because of his Indian heritage.

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AOL.com

Ann Coulter Calls Trump An 'Awful, Awful Person'... But Says She'll Still Vote For Him

While Coulter said she was all for Trump's vice presidential pick, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), she called the man at the top of the ticket totally...

.4 days ago

Politico

Ann Coulter posted about Tim Walz's son . The backlash was swift.

Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter posted an article on X about Gus' emotional reaction, with a lead photo of the teenager in tears. She...

.Aug 23, 2024

The Vacaville Reporter

Ann Coulter: The DEI magic hire falls to male competence

In retrospect, maybe running the DEI hire for president was not a good idea. On the other hand, President Joe Biden's revenge plan worked perfectly.

.2 weeks ago

South China Morning Post

Who is Ann Coulter, the woman dubbed ‘fascist Barbie’ by the left?

Opinionated media commentator Ann Coulter is no stranger to controversy, having criticised everyone from Kamala Harris and Donald Trump to Tim Walz's son and 9...

.2 weeks ago

The Hill

Ann Coulter calls Trump an ‘awful, awful person’ but says she’ll vote for him

Ann Coulter said she will vote for former President Trump in November, despite thinking he is an “awful, awful person,” because of his pick...

.Aug 11, 2024

Variety

Rosie O’Donnell and Ana Navarro Slam Ann Coulter for Mocking Tim Walz’s Son: ‘A Heartless Woman’ Who ‘Needs to Leave Gus Walz the F— Alone’

Ann Coulter is being called a "heartless" and "cruel" woman for mocking Tim Walz's 17-year-old son Gus, who has a non-verbal learning...

.Aug 22, 2024

NewsNation

Ann Coulter, Cenk Uygur disagree on election fraud frequency

But is voter fraud really a concern? Conservative commentator Ann Coulter and Cenk Uygur, co-creator of left-leaning program "The Young...

.2 weeks ago

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'Die': Ann Coulter delivers brutal assessment on how Trump can help 'take America back' - Alternet.org

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Ann Coulter fears Trump will doom GOP in both Houses of Congress - Alternet.org

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unable to learn 4 23

https://www.alternet.org/ann-coulter-republicans-defend-trump/

abortion bad bet

https://www.alternet.org/even-ann-coulter-thinks-strict-gop-abortion-bans-are-going-too-far/

2x? https://www.alternet.org/2022/11/donald-trump-is-so-done

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spoke at goProud but anti gay marriage so all phobes?

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https://www.alternet.org/ann-couter-donald-trump-stupid/

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For months, far-right author Ann Coulter has been saying that the Republican Party needs to abandon former President Donald Trump and look to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for the 2024 election. And with Trump having officially announced that he is seeking the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Coulter is doubling down on her assertion that Trump has become a major liability for the GOP.

Coulter isn’t the only well-known Republican who is hoping that Trump won’t be the GOP’s next presidential nominee. Others include Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah and media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

During a late November discussion on SubStack, Coulter argued, “No, don’t tell me, ‘Oh, you’re voting for Mitch McConnell or Romney if you’re for DeSantis.’ No, DeSantis is the true right-winger. Trump is the j*****s RINO.”

READ MORE: Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are already duking it out in Pennsylvania

Coulter, during the conversation, pushed back against the view that Trump maintains a firm grip on the Republican Party even after its many disappointments in the 2022 midterms — which found a long list of Trump-backed MAGA candidates losing to Democrats.

“He is so done,” Coulter remarked. “He is on his last legs…. There are so few Trump diehards…. Trump won’t be the nominee.”

One anti-Trump conservative who clearly doesn’t share that view is Lincoln Project co-founder and former GOP strategist Rick Wilson. The Never Trumper, during a late November interview with The Guardian, predicted that Trump will be the Republican Party’s 2024 nominee and crush DeSantis in the primary.

Wilson told The Guardian, “Has Ron DeSantis been to the rodeo? Has he been out there in the fight? Has he actually faced up against a full campaign of the brutality and the cruelty that Donald Trump will level against him? He has not. It’s like he’s walked onto the field onto third base and thought he hit a grand slam home run…. Even Trump in a weakened state still has an innate feral sense of cruelty and cunning that Ron DeSantis does not have.”

READ MORE:'Been to this party too many times': Rick Wilson predicts GOP will nominate Donald Trump in 2024

Wilson commented that whenever a pundit claims that the GOP is ready to move on from Trump, it doesn’t happen. “I’ve just been to this f*****g party too many times now,” Wilson told The Guardian.

Interviewed by Newsweek, Coulter compared Trump’s 2024 campaign to his activities in 2012.

Coulter told Newsweek, “They've been saying, 'It's 2016, again' through three losing election cycles. No, it's 2012, again. That's when Trump tried to run for president by activating the crazies, crashed and burned. 2016 was the exception, when — instead of birtherism or a stolen election — he ran on my book, ‘Adios, America!’ Then, he blew off his promises on immigration, and went right back to his losing streak."

Watch Coulter’s SubStack discussion below or at this link:

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wants to be 1st in/out?

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Ann Coulter has a message for former President Donald Trump's supporters and allies. According to the conservative media pundit, it's time to move on from the former president because his political reign appears to be over.

According to Mediaite, Coulter's remarks came during a recent podcast segment. In an episode titled, "Trump's Done," Coulter shared her remarks via her SubStack account as she noted that she believes Trump's influence over the Republican Party is dwindling.

Coulter offered a comparison of Trump's rise to fame to that of former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who, according to Mediaite, "saw her star fade significantly after John McCain’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign. Coulter cited poll numbers, a Roger Stone backpedal email, and dwindling rally crowds as some of the proof Trump has become irrelevant to most Republicans."

READ MORE: Ann Coulter buried in ridicule after tweeting out contradictory coronavirus 'facts'

She also weighed in with a critical assessment of the Trump supporters still attending his Make America Great Again (MAGA) rallies. “They’re like Deadheads,” Coulter said. “They’re following him from place to place. He sings the same songs.”

Although it still appears as if the former president is highly influential, Coulter argues that "loyalty among Trump 'fanatics,' is not 'indicative of a movement sweeping the nation.'”

She went on to shed light on another example of why she believes Trump's influence is waning.

Per Mediaite: "Coulter mentioned a pair of Stone emails she received from the Trump team. The first was an email “slamming” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), considered by many to be Trump’s biggest 2024 competition, should both men run for the Republican Party nomination. A second email, Coulter said, was Stone ' backpedalling' on his criticism of DeSantis after he heard complaints from conservatives supportive of the governor."

READ MORE: Watergate reporter slams the GOP as the ‘party of sedition’

“This suggests to me Trump is not the huge hit [he was],” she said.

As for the midterm elections, Coulter believes Trump has given an illusion of influence because he made last-minute endorsements of political candidates who were already projected to win even without his support.

“Republicans, it’s not the party of Trump. It’s safe to come back, and it’s safe for Republicans to stand up and run without Donald Trump,” she said.

Coulter also predicted that Republicans may far well for the midterm elections even without Trump. “People are angry. Republicans are really angry. We are on a smooth glide path to really, really good midterm elections, and the only thing that can blow it is what probably will blow it: the Republican Party,” she said.

She concluded with a central message to Republicans, collectively. "You don’t need to suck up to Trump anymore, conservative talk radio hosts, talk TV hosts, Republicans running for office,” she announced. “He’s done. He’s over.”

READ MORE:Ann Coulter pans Dinesh D'Souza's '2,000 Mules' voter fraud film as 'stupid' in searing blog post

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gotta wonder re timing, just dunking/piling on?

https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/ann-coulter-2000-mules-stupid/

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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/eco-fascism-rise-and-its-anti-immigrant-beliefs-have-bullhorn-fox-news

the far right is increasingly embracing an extremist ideology known as “eco-fascism,” which seeks to co-opt legitimate environmental concerns and repurpose them to support white nationalism. The alleged shooters who carried out racist, xenophobic attacks in Buffalo, New York; El Paso, Texas; and Christchurch, New Zealand, all either identified as eco-fascists or espoused eco-fascist views, but these beliefs are also being spread by mainstream conservative media figures. Fox News and other right-wing outlets regularly put forward eco-fascistic arguments that either implicitly or explicitly adopt the racist “great replacement” theory, which holds that a cabal of elites is seeking to displace white people through increased immigration.

Eco-fascism holds that immigrants are to blame for a scarcity of resources and, therefore, must be prevented from entering the United States, Europe, or other countries coded as “the West.” “If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can become more sustainable,” the El Paso shooter allegedly wrote. That statement echoed the nativist and proto-eco-fascist Garrett Hardin’s argument that rich countries are like a “lifeboat” with limited social, economic, and natural resources – including food and housing stock – that needed to turn away immigrants, or else the “boat swamps, everyone drowns.”

In addition to this supposed competition for resources, eco-fascists hold racist beliefs about immigrants’ hygiene, respect for nature, and perceived higher birthrates. Historically, eco-fascism has held that the “purity” of a land’s natural resources should be reflected in racist ideas of a nation’s racial “purity,” most explicitly in the Nazi “emphasis on ‘blood and soil’” and “the need for a living space purified of alien and undesirable elements.” Just as the great replacement theory says that white people are being politically marginalized and subjugated, eco-fascists say they are being denied their rightful resources.[vid

November 11, 2019, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight]

The ideas that immigrants are a “drain” on resources or present an environmental risk to the United States are not limited to explicit eco-fascists though. Both of those narratives are common on Fox News, including from the network’s top star Tucker Carlson. On April 25, after Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) blamed migrants for causing “environmental degradation” at the southern border, Carlson thanked him for mentioning the “effect on the physical landscape, on the land.” The host added, “Where is the Sierra Club, you know, as our country is being trampled?”

Carlson has discussed this theme repeatedly over the years. The Potomac River “has gotten dirtier and dirtier and dirtier and dirtier,” he said in a 2019 interview in The Atlantic. “I go down there and that litter is left almost exclusively by immigrants.” (The Potomac Conservancy condemned Carlson’s remarks, calling them “racist plain and simple.”)

“I actually hate litter which is one of the reasons I'm so against illegal immigration. It produces a huge amount of litter,” he said in August 2018.

That December, Carlson said that immigrants make “our own country poorer, and dirtier, and more divided.” He faced a significant backlash following those remarks, including from 26 companies which pulled advertisements from his show. But he doubled down on the comments just days later in a monologue that explicitly called increased immigration levels – not just the act of migrating – a threat to U.S. natural resources.

“Thanks to illegal immigration, huge swaths of the region are covered with garbage and waste that degrade the soil and kill wildlife,” he said. “Illegal immigration comes at a huge cost to our environment.”

“The left used to care about the environment – the land, the water, the animals,” he continued. “They understood that America is beautiful because it is open and uncrowded. Not so long ago, environmentalists opposed mass immigration. They knew what the costs were.”

Far-right website The Federalist wrote up that segment under the headline: “Tucker Carlson Is Absolutely Right: Illegal Immigration Is Destroying The Environment.”

One year earlier, far-right pundit Ann Coulter wrote an opinion piece for the Daily Caller titled “Choose Between A Green America And A Brown America,” criticizing the Sierra Club for adopting progressive immigration policies. In the piece, she made a racist reference to a “Mexican cultural trait of littering” and promoted “taking white Western European immigrants” over “Mass Third World immigration.”

The eco-fascistic right often couches its anti-immigrant conservationism in Malthusian anxieties about overpopulation. “A sensible environmentalism” would have to ask “is it good for us or the environment that the population grows artificially through the mass introduction of foreigners?” Christopher Roach wrote in a piece for American Greatness, a hotbed of far-right Trumpist nationalism. Roach also referenced “an immigration regime that transports billions from the fertile—though impoverished—Third World,” highlighting again the overlap between great replacement panic and eco-fascist narratives.

The far right’s demonization of immigrants as “dirty” or bad stewards of the environment goes hand-in-hand with the lie that they steal wealth from the United States, or otherwise don’t contribute their fair share.

“Our national wealth is up for grabs by whomever gets here first, and they are coming,” Carlsonsaid on May 21, 2019. “The United States is being plundered.”

That segment was based on a report from an immigration restrictionist group that has deep ties to the far-right ecology movement, called the Federation for American Immigration Reform. The group seeks to drastically reduce the level of authorized immigration and stop all unauthorized border crossing, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has designated FAIR as an extremist group.

In a recent blog post, FAIR government relations manager Preston Huennekens argued that “any increase in our population is going to our tax natural resources” and that migration had negative environmental impacts “through the physical act of migrating itself,” including “border trash, smuggling trails destroying fauna, etc.”

The idea of scarcity is crucial to the racist appeal of eco-fascism, and Fox News regularly suggests that municipal and federal resources can’t accommodate increased migration.

“At a time when there were more than half a million Americans homeless living on the streets – a crushing number that our leaders ignore but that rises every single year – at that moment, Joe Biden is giving hotel rooms to illegal aliens,” Carlson declared. “It's hard to believe that's real. Oh, but it is real.”

Anchor Harris Faulkner played that clip on her March 23, 2021, show, to which Fox News’ Will Cain responded: “Welcoming in migrants from Central America, that's all fine and good but not if it’s coming at the expense of a limited amount of resources that we're depriving of Americans.” As Media Matters noted at the time, immigrants contribute more to governmental resources than they use[vid]

March 23, 2021, edition of Fox News' The Faulkner Focus ]

In fact, Cain’s entire premise is wrong. The world has enough wealth and productive capacity to feed every human being. The United States could house every person living here, and the choice not to is due to a lack of political will, not limited environmental resources.

Nevertheless, over a 12-week period in 2021, Fox News repeated some version of Cain’s lie, fearmongering about immigrants taking resources from American citizens in at least 46 segments, according to a Media Matters study. The same research found that Fox News hosts demonized migrant children in 32 segments, accusing them of being a burden on the educational system, such as when Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade said on March 1, 2021, that migrant children who “don't speak English” were “taking time and energy away from your kids.”

Environmentalists have worked for decades to successfully expel any strains of eco-fascism from their movement. Now, right-wing media have openly adopted eco-fascistic rhetoric to conflate an ideology grounded in white supremacy with genuine environmental concerns, all in their crusade against immigration.

To paraphrase the Potomac Conservancy: These attacks are racist, plain and simple.

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Every revolutionary movement needs a martyr and it appears that the MAGA revolution has finally found one for itself.

Ashli Babbit, the Jan. 6th insurrectionist who was shot by a security guard as she climbed through a broken window just a few feet away from members of Congress, is Donald Trump's Horst Wessel, the German brownshirt who was murdered in 1930 and turned into a martyr by the Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels. Trump himself is making the case for Babbit, having mentioned her in every appearance he's made in the last week.

At his recent Florida rally, Trump wondered: "Who shot Ashli Babbit? We all saw the hand... Now they don't want to give the name." At his press conference on Wednesday in which he announced his laughable "class action" lawsuit against the Big Tech companies, he went a little bit farther saying, "there were no guns in the Capitol except for the gun that shot Ashli Babbitt. And nobody knows who that man were...the person that shot Ashli Babbitt right through the head, just boom. There was no reason for that."Then this past weekend he went all the way, describing the insurrection as a love fest and Babbit as an innocent victim in an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo:

Bartiromo took the ball and ran with it, saying that Babbitt climbed out of a broken window (as if she was trying to escape the vicious gunman) after which both she and Trump speculated that the officer who shot Babbitt was part of a Democratic official's security detail, casually mentioning Chuck Schumer in the process. The implication was obvious: the Democrats shot Ashli Babbitt for no good reason. The fact that we have all seen the footage of the shooting is irrelevant: We can believe them or we can believe our lying eyes.

Over the weekend, Trump appeared at his second CPAC conference in five months — this time in Texas. (Salon's Zachary Petrizzo delivered these dispatches from the event.) Trump gave his usual speech, to a notably more excited crowd than the last one in February in Florida. He's barely able to keep from announcing to his adoring fans that he's running again and they are all clamoring for him to do it. And it's clear that he will be running to avenge his bogus claims that he actually won the election. The Big Lie will never die.

It all sounds bizarre but when you talk about this stuff in the context of CPAC, it is really not all that crazy. Sure the violent insurrection gives their standard reckless rhetoric a feeling of urgency that wasn't there before, but if you look back you can see that's been there for decades.

Back in 1973 when the American Conservative Union (founded in 1964) first started holding these get-togethers, the GOP was in terrible disarray in the wake of Watergate and far-right organizers saw an opportunity to reshape the party in their conservative image. They invited Ronald Reagan to give the first keynote and the "New Right" never looked back.

CPAC has always been used as a way to take the temperature of the party activists and in that way, it's very instructive. The straw poll that's taken every year (or now, every few months, apparently) has not always been predictive of the party's nominee, but it shows what ideas and issues most excite the base. It's almost certain that the feedback loop between this group and the right-wing media guides the party as much as party officials and pollsters do.

 For the first quarter-century, the conference was an ideological gathering designed to promote the conservative movement agenda of anti-communism, small government, strong military, Christian Right values, low taxes, etc. But with the rise of the right-wing media — first talk radio, then Fox News — by the turn of the century, it became much more of a right-wing celebrity spectacle that sought to shock the political media, which loved to cover it since it was always held in DC. (This is the first year they've ever held the event outside of DC.) 

In fact, for the past 20 years, CPAC was basically the same circus that Trump took on the road for his beloved rallies. During the Bush years, politicians showed up and there were panel discussions of issues but the stars of the show were people like Ann Coulter, who pretty much made her name at these events.And they said things which, looking back, make January 6th seem inevitable.

At the 2002 meeting, Coulter said, "we need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too, otherwise, they will turn out to be outrighttraitors."A few years later she made news again with another notorious speech:

On Democrats: "Someday they will find a way to abort all future Boy Scouts."

College professors: "sissified, pussified." Harvard: "the Soviet Union." John Kerry: the other "dominant woman in Democratic politics."

Her post-9/11 motto: "Rag head talks tough, rag head faces consequences." For good measure, she threw in a joke about having Muslims burn down the Supreme Court — with the liberal justices inside.

Then came questions. A young woman asked Coulter to describe themost difficult ethical decision she ever made. "There was one time I had a shot at Bill Clinton," Coulter said.

She meant that literally. Meanwhile, down in the bowels of the hotel hosting CPAC, they sold merchandise with adorable sayings such as "Happiness is Hillary Clinton's face on a milk carton" and "Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required."At the next year's event, Coulter said, "I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'fa**ot,'" and when she was rebuked for saying it, she called it "speech totalitarianism."

There is nothing new under the right-wing sun.

In recent years, some of the acts were scrapped.Coulter was not invited in 2015, and in 2017 the right-wing provocateur Milo Yianopoulos was canceled when it was revealed that he had made positive statements about pedophilia. They were no longer needed anyway. The show was by then dominated by Donald Trump who had made his first big political splash there in 2013 spreading the "birther" lie, which the attendees ate up with a spoon. And while Coulter climbed her way back to CPAC this weekend, participating on an obscure panel going on about immigration and making grotesque racist statements, as usual, her act doesn't shock anymore and nobody cares. Who needs Coulter anyway when you have Trump?

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Heather Digby Parton, also known as "Digby," is a contributing writer to Salon. She was the winner of the 2014 Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism.

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pudgey white suburban so gets invite/summons on facebook to  man up and go help the good guy cops who are besiged by black thugs [dylann r radicalized by blk on wht crime]

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omfg parasite = cockroaches = exterminate  vermin carry disease dirty

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Rittenhouse verdict championed on right-wing social media as green light for killing protesters

[Charlottesville "Unite the Right" Rally. Far-right Oath Keepers patrol Emancipation Park. Credit: Anthony Crider]

David Neiwertand Daily Kos November 21, 2021

The exultation on right-wing social media following Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal has been sickeningly predictable: Mainstream conservatives loudly valorize Rittenhouse as a "hero," while more extremist voices, applying the same logic, demand that more Americans follow his footsteps—urging the likeminded to take to the street now to begin using guns to "be like Kyle." They have even appropriated his name for their future plans, voiced in numerous celebratory threads: Any leftist protester shot by a right-wing "patriot" henceforth will have been "Rittenhoused."

As we forecasted, the acquittal is now a beacon-like green light granting permission to violent right-wing extremists to openly wage the kind of "civil war" against "the left"—which ranges from liberal Democrats like Joe Biden to the "antifa" bogeyman they have concocted—that they have been fantasizing about for the past decade. In the words of Charlie Kirk's interlocutor, it's the signal that now they "get to use the guns."

The bloodlust has been palpable. Online trolls celebrated that "it's Open Season on pedo-commies" and boasted that the verdict means "there's nothing you can do about it." A neo-Nazi channel on Twitter urged readers to "let this win fuel your rage." A fan of pseudo-journalist Andy Ngo commented in a retweet: "Every one of these anarchist criminal thugs should be shot in the street like the worthless dogs they are."

Far-right maven Ann Coulterposted a meme showing a gantlet of [marvel nazi nerd wet dr]  comic-book superheroes bowing to Rittenhouse. On Facebook, Ben Shapiro framed any future violence as being left-wing: "The Left accepting the verdict in a peaceable manner remains the sizable elephant in the room."

The white-nationalist site VDare also extolled Rittenhouse's heroism:

This much is true: Kyle Rittenhouse is the hero we've been waiting for throughout the turbulent summer of 2020, where a Black Lives Matter/Antifa/Bolshevik revolution has our country on the brink of total chaos.

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Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire blamed the media for there even having been a trial:

The verdict is right and just but Kyle Rittenhouse never should have been on trial at all. Now themedia will go to work, like the demonsthey are, to ensure that Kenosha burns because they did not get their blood sacrifice.

Walsh then added:

I hope Rittenhouse bankrupts all of you dirtbags in media who smeared him as a white supremacist. [sue for libel based on verdict? // charlottesville ~ KKK case finished ] I hope he ruins your life. I want you to suffer. It's what you deserve. It's justice.

Idaho legislator Tammy Nichols, a Republican, posted a meme featuring the Gadsden-flag "Don't Tread On Me" design, but with a graphic of Rittenhouse firing from a seated position as he did in Kenosha.

The Gun Owners of America (GOA)—a gun-rights extremist group headed by far-right militia figure Larry Pratt—joined in the celebration by announcing it was giving Rittenhouse a new gun.

Alert: GOA will be awarding Kyle Rittenhouse with an AR-15 for his defense of gun rights in America. Join us in saying THANK YOU to Kyle Rittenhouse for being awarrior for gun rights and self defense rights across the country!

Other "Patriot" Movement extremists saw the verdict as vindication for vigilantism and militia organizing. The "Washougal Moms," a militia-friendly group from eastern Washington state, opined:

Today the jury and legal system has reaffirmed our rights as citizens. The second amendmentin all aspects, to form a well regulated militia, the right to bear arms in self defense, and against enemiesboth foreign and domestic!

Kurt Schlichter, the right-wing troll with over 380,000 followers, taunted MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan, who had expressed concern about the double racial standard that the verdict reflects, on Twitter.

Your pain delights me. Kyle Rittenhouse killed two leftistcatspawsand bisected the bicep of another and there's nothing you can do about it.

A white-nationalist Twitter account called "Based Teutonic" celebrated the verdict by posting a fantasy that Rittenhouse would now embark on an action-hero-like mission—with the help of Judge Bruce Schroeder, who oversaw the trial in markedly biased fashion.

About to exit court room

Judge yells from behind:

Rittenhouse turns around

You forgot this

Tosses him his AR15

Credits roll, Eye of the Tiger plays

"Based Teutonic" wasn't alone in celebrating Schroeder's role in the verdict. On Telegram, a commenter in a Proud Boys channel observed:

Kyle's case shows how important is to have your guys in power on a local level. One vaguely conservative boomer judge made all of the difference in a monumental trial.

Other Proud Boys were more focused on their long-anticipated civil war. "There's still a chance for this country," wrote one. Another wrote: "The left wont stop until their bodies get stacked up like cord wood."

The Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights monitored a number of far-right chat forums (particularly Telegram) following the verdict, and found an outpouring of extremist bile, much of it anticipating the ability to inflict lethal violence on "leftists," as well as Black "parasites" and, of course, Jewish people. A user called The Western Chauvinist commented: "The parasites are planning multiple 'protests' across the United States."

One user calling himself "Proud Boy To Fascist Pipeline" replied to one of these comments mocking Black leaders protesting the verdict as "parasites": "Your 17 year olds are already armed and terrorizing our neighborhoods, n----er."

Fittingly, Charlie Kirk fans—following the example of his Idaho audience member—were focused on the violence: "Arm up and tell them f**cking bring it!" one replied to predictions of leftist protests after the verdict. "Shoot these phukers," commented another.

Nick Fuentes' "Groypers" were also unbridled in their anticipation of gunning down their opponents. "The most American thing you can do is Killing Commies," opined one on the white-nationalist forum Gab.

Another Gab user exulted with a meme showing Joaquin Phoenix as The Joker, dancing: "When you find out it's officially Open Season on pedo-commies." Mocking "wannabe street thugs upset with the verdict," another Gab user replied, "you're gonna get Rittenhouse'd. Bitch."

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"Getting Rittenhoused" became a popular way of threatening leftists. After Ngo posted a handful of tweets from leftists angry about the verdict, hundreds of his fans piled on, making threats of violence against them. "Someone will Rittenhouse them too," one responded. Another replied: "I came here to say that!"

Antisemitism also was a common theme. Right-wing troll Keith Woods, who has 23,500 followers on Twitter, declared after the verdict: "Huge L for the Jews." His followers piled on; one responded with a GIF meme of Gollum and the text, "Curse you goyim." Another replied, "hopefully they take an L in Charlottsville trial too. WHITE BOY WINTER!"

White nationalist Eric Striker was more explicitly antisemitic, as well as strategic, in his commentary:

Beating the Jews to the narrative as incidents unfold is more important than anything that happens in court.

Once you frame a story with the facts (and the facts have to be 100% accurate) and disseminate it with an effective propaganda network, Jews will struggle to challenge it once it's cemented.

Notorious white nationalist and antisemite Mike "Enoch" Peinovich put out a statement through his National Justice Party: "This victory for Kyle Rittenhouse over the cosmopolitan elite forces that plague the nation isn't only a victory for the young man himself, it's a victory for justice and for all White people who take a stand," Peinovich said.

On Telegram, a white nationalist commented: "The victory of Kyle Rittenhouse over thejewish forces that plague the nation isn't just a victory for the man himself, it's a victory for justice, and for the masses of disenfranchised White people which populate the globe.

The neo-Nazi group White Lives Matter had this advice for its white-supremacist followers:

Don't let this one victory lull you back to sleep. That's what they want. They know small "victories" can placate the angry masses more than anything else. Instead let this win fuel your rage.Never forget the simple fact that this clear-cut self-defense should never have gone to trial in the first place. Muslim, Hispanic, and African invaders have raped millions of our women, WHITE women.Their time ofterrorizing our People with 0 consequences is coming to an end. The Rittenhouse verdict is a single tick in the scoreboard on our side. Our enemy doesn't have a scoreboard big enough for their victories. Fight harder, stronger, fiercer, and with the same remorse they have shown us. None. Get going, White man.

"This might be interpreted across the far right as a type of permission slip to do this kind of thing or to seek out altercations in this way, believing that there is a potential that they won't face serious consequences for it," Jared Holt of the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council told NPR. "I worry that that might end up being interpreted by some people as a proof of concept of this idea that you can actually go out and seek a 'self-defense situation,' and you'll be cheered as a hero for it."

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almost a year after Joe Biden was sworn in as president of the United States, former President Donald Trump continues to receive an abundance of media coverage — from negative reporting in liberal and progressive outlets to nonstop adulation and praise from Trump’s sycophants at Fox News, Newsmax TV and One America News. But one right-wing media figure who has no kind words for Trump in 2022 is author Ann Coulter, who believes that his dominance of the Republican Party has come to an end and has been bashing the ex-president on Twitter.

Interviewed by the New York Times, Coulter said, “Trump is done. You guys should stop obsessing over him.”

The right-wing firebrand was interviewed for an article by Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin, who addressed growing tensions between Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

In a January 12 tweet, Coulter used the phrase “booster status” as a double entendre. Trump, in a recent interview, was obviously referring to DeSantis when he slammed Republicans who are too “gutless” to say whether or not they have received a COVID-19 booster shot.

Trump has been aggressively promoting COVID-19 vaccines lately, saying that he got a booster shot and urging others to do the same. DeSantis, however, has been evasive when asked about COVID-19 booster shots, obviously fearful of saying anything that might offend anti-vaxxers.

Coulter tweeted:...

biden’s unlikely defender on Afghanistan: He 'had the balls to do it'

Alex Henderson

September 01, 2021

Republicans who are willing to publicly defend President Joe Biden on the crisis in Afghanistan have been few and far between. But Biden has found an unlikely defender on the right: firebrand author/pundit

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Far-right a​nti-immigra​tion​ hardliner ​Kris Kobach lost the Kansas Republican Senate primary to ​Rep. Roger Marshall by more than 50,000 votes, marking the latest defeat for far-right “America First” candidates at the ballot box.

In 2020, several high-profile Republican candidates championed by far-right and white nationalist political activists have been rejected by their constituencies. Right Wing Watch reported in January that white nationalists were excited by the prospect of Kobach​, the former secretary of state of Kansas, serving in the Senate. White nationalist podcaster James Allsup told listeners at the time that “having somebody like Kobach in the upper house, in a position of power, as an anti-immigration, as an immigration restrictionist leader, that would be immensely powerful going forward​.”

On Tuesday night the race was called, and the far-right activists who had supported Kobach’s bid mourned his electoral loss online. Many “America First” white nationalist movement figures blamed the GOP for Kobach’s defeat.

“Back to the hills. Of course, we’ve been there before,” Peter Brimelow, editor of the anti-immigrant​, ​white nationalist publication VDARE, said. He added that it was “annoying” that far-right commentator Ann Coulter was right about President Donald Trump. Coulter, once an avid supporter of Trump, has attacked the president in recent years and called Trump the “most disloyal actual retard” after he endorsed former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Republican primary opponent Tommy Tuberville ​in Alabama.

“Fuck the weak Kansas Republicans who are looking at this primary as a ‘victory.’  No matter what you’reelecting a member of the monoparty in November who hates you and will continue to sell you out to our globalist elites,” far-right Kansas State student Jaden McNeil said. “Enjoy your state’s continued degradation.”

Scott Greer, a former editor at The Daily Caller who was revealed to be writing alt-right columns under a pseudonym, only offered one comment on Kobach’s loss: “Damn.”

White nationalist and alt-right poster boy **Richard Spencer** theorized that Kobach’s loss reflected the unpopularity of “conservative nationalism.” Spencer has been vocal in his disdain for the elements of the far-right that overtook him in popularity and the flaws he sees in those ranks.

“Steve King . . . Jeff Sessions . . . Kris Kobach . . . then Donald Trump in November . . . The’America First’ conservatives and supposed ‘immigration hawks’ are falling like dominos,” Spencer tweeted. He later added, “You can blame Trump’s tactical failures—and there are many—you can blame Jared and Ivanka, etc. At some point you must conclude that conservative nationalism isn’t going anywhere, and it’s simply not very popular.” ​

Joshua Foxworth, a Republican “America First” candidate in Texas who was trumped by incumbent Rep. Randy Weber in  a blow-out loss in March, blamed Kobach’s loss on the media.

“The loss of Kobach in Kansas is upsetting but not surprising,” Foxworth said. “Almost no one can overcome a media that constantly promotes or opposes a candidate. Deplatforming of supporters doesn’t help. The GOP is in danger of becoming a party without core issues and without a base.”

But Kobach’s loss does not exist in a vacuum. Other far-right supported candidates, like Sessions, Iowa Rep. Steve King, and Arizona former sheriff Joe Arpaio have seen their hopes for high office dashed.

Sessions’ campaign attempted to earn the support of far-right and anti-immigration​ voters, going so far as to tap far-right columnist Michelle Malkin to author a fundraising letter in May. Malkin made the play obvious, opening the letter by calling Sessions “an old friend of the America First movement.” But President Donald Trump, nursing a grudge against Sessions for recusing himself from the probe of Russian influence in the 2016 election, urged Republican voters to reject Sessions. Last month, Sessions lost Alabama’s Republican runoff election to Tuberville by more than 100,000 votes.

King, who has a sordid history of racist remarks during his nine terms serving in the U.S. House, lost the Iowa Republican primary to Randy Feenstra by nearly 10 percentage points.

An​d in Arizona, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is facing a close contest against challenger Jerry Sheridan in a race to get his old job back after receiving a pardon from Trump in 2017​. (Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt in going after undocumented immigrants.) With 90 of 99 vote centers counted at the time of publication, Sheridan is shown slightly ahead. Arpaio has not yet conceded the race.

William Gheen, president of the anti-immigrant Americans for Legal Immigration PAC mourned the loss of Sessions, Arpaio, Kobach, and King.

“All four of America’s top illegal immigration fighters have fallen.  Farewell Joe Arpaio, Kris Kobach, Jeff Sessions, and Rep. Steve King,” Gheen said. “ Who would have ever guessed after four years of Trump our top voices against illegal immigration would [be] gone.”

“America First is inevitable,” white nationalist and anti-Semitic podcaster Nick Fuentes declared on July 7.

​It would seem that it’s actually anything but.

​However, these far-right losses at the ballot box are not indicators that extremism in the Republican Party is retreating, rather the opposite appears to be true. For certain far-right causes​—like the “America First” movement—the defeats may prompt an exploration of options beyond electoral politics. ​And while extremists gaining legislative power can have disastrous consequences for a democracy, history has​ shown that extremists seeking solutions outside of the political system can also prove to be dangerous.​

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Tech billionaire Peter Thiel is searching for new political allies. He’s found one in Kansas.

A Silicon Valley outsider has spent almost $1 million to reshape a US Senate race in America’s heartland.

By Theodore Schleifer@teddyschleifer  Jul 27, 2020,

Kris Kobach on the left and Peter Thiel on the right.

Kris Kobach and Peter Thiel have struck an unlikely alliance. Drew Angerer/Getty Images; Adam Jeffery/NBC/Getty Images]

At his Park Avenue penthouse — 62 floors high and with a sparkling nighttime view of the Manhattan skyline — billionaire Peter Thiel last fall introduced to his friends an immigration hardliner who he would back with over $1 million to try and transform the Republican Party.

The guest of honor was not President Donald Trump. It was Kris Kobach.

Thiel, a California venture capitalist, and Kobach, who is running in Kansas for the Republican nomination for the US Senate, were quite far from Kansas that evening. But the alliance between the two iconoclasts has reshaped the race in that state, giving Kobach a puncher’s chance to beat the GOP establishment — possibly upsetting Republicans’ hopes to hold their Senate majority.

In the months since that fundraiser, Thiel has pumped $850,000 into a super PAC behind Kobach — and that could be just the start if he wins. The investment in Kobach is Thiel’s most significant political bet since he risked his standing in Silicon Valley to support Donald Trump in 2016. And the wisdom of that bet will be tested just next week, when Kobach faces the voters of Kansas in a race that polls show to be tight.

If Kobach is elected, it could give Thiel a loyal ally in the Senate because of how powerful he is proving to be in the race. That alliance becomes all the more key if Trump loses this fall, which would weaken the Washington influence of Thiel, a board member at Facebook and a founder of Palantir, which has deep ties to the government.

Patrick Miller, a political scientist at the University of Kansas who is closely following the primary, told Recode Thiel’s money was “absolutely critical to Kobach being a viable candidate.”

“I don’t want to overstate it and say that Kobach wouldn’t have a campaign without him. But I think the money that that super PAC is putting into the race — primarily through this one rich guy — is absolutely the lifeblood of the pro-Kobach campaign at this moment,” Miller said. “You take that money away and Kobach doesn’t have a lot of campaign left.”

Thiel and Kobach, neither of whom returned requests for comment, are not personally close. Friends of Thiel’s say his support of Kobach hasn’t come up in recent conversations. But Thiel likes to “collect” politicians who he finds well-credentialed and intellectual, particularly those who fight with the elites or the media.

“He has a really strong preference for people who stick their middle finger up to the status quo and conventional wisdom,” said a person familiar with Thiel’s political thinking. “There is nobody who I think was more obviously sticking his middle finger up at conventional wisdom quite like Kris Kobach.”

Both with a zest for the controversial, the litigious, and the troll, Kobach and Thiel have also each collected enemies in their political crusades. They both inveigh against identity politics, the Washington establishment, and a globalism that doesn’t put America first.

Kobach has said Thiel first reached out to him in 2005, which is when Kobach, then a lawyer, began challenging a California state law that gave in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants. A self-professed libertarian, Thiel, who was born overseas and is himself an immigrant, has long had sharply restrictionist views on immigration; back in 2008, he reportedly donated $1 million to NumbersUSA, a hardline immigration group which today is a prominent backer of Kobach’s.

Kobach, as Kansas’s secretary of state from 2011 to 2019, emerged during the ensuing decade as one of the most polarizing figures in national politics, urging the GOP to more seriously investigate voter fraud (of which there is limited evidence) and to crack down on illegal immigration. He had, however, always been seen as a fringe player. That was until Trump arrived.

Kobach has since advised Trump’s administration on implementing a “Muslim registry” that would have specifically tracked immigrants to the US from Muslim-majority countries. He’s also weighed in for the administration on voting issues, wasconsidered for Cabinet posts by a transition committee on which Thiel served, and earned Trump’s endorsement during his unsuccessful bid for governor of Kansas in 2018.

That race was when the Thiel-Kobach bond was tied. Thiel secretly put somewhere between $250,000 and $500,000, delivered in two tranches, into an outside group backing Kobach’s gubernatorial bid, according to a person familiar with the gifts. Some details of Thiel’s stealth donations in that race were previously reported by the Kansas City Star.

For Thiel, the Harvard graduate in Kansas fits in with a new crop of Ivy League-bred, pugilistic Republicans Thiel has cultivated as friends. Despite his proud support for Trump in 2016, Thiel’s influence in Trump’s orbit has faded and he has reportedly soured on the president, not even yet making a donation to his campaign in the 2020 cycle, compared to the over $1 million he spent to back Trump four years ago. Nowadays, Thiel has instead grown closer to rising stars such as Josh Hawley, the Missouri senator who has made a name for himself by fiercely going after Google, which the tech billionaire wants to investigate.

Thiel’s only checks to candidates this cycle have gone to Tom Cotton, another ambitious, Harvard-educated GOP senator, and Kobach. Unlike Hawley, though, Kobach has barely, if ever, weighed in on tech issues.

But part of their alliance can be explained by more personal reasons. A key lubricant binding Thiel to his new candidate is Ann Coulter, the conservative provocateur who last week called Democrats the “antifa party.” She is close with Thiel, and is a Kobach super-fan.

Asked by Recode why she thought Thiel and Kobach felt such a kinship, Coulter took a dig at the GOP establishment and offered that “it might have something to do with Kobach having twice the I.Q. of Mitch McConnell.”

Coulter and Thiel have been fellow rabble-rousers in the conservative movement since at least 2010, when Thiel introduced her to speak to “Homocon,” a conference for gay conservatives held at his apartment. Coulter would even dedicate one of her books to him the following year. The two remain close, attending Hollywood parties together.

It was Coulter who co-hosted that Kobach fundraiser at Thiel’s apartment last fall, an event that brought Kobach before wealthy people like GOP power broker Rebekah Mercer and Erik Prince, the founder of the military contracting firm Blackwater.

“You couldn’t turn around last night without stepping on a billionaire,” Coulter said of the Thiel event in one radio interview.

All that billionaire money has drawbacks, though. While there is a history of rich out-of-staters spending big money to influence Kansas politics, Thiel’s involvement poses a vulnerability.

“Kris’s support comes from those who don’t care about the people of Kansas. He is relying solely on help from Democrats, Hollywood, and New York City,” said Eric Pahls, the campaign manager for Rep. Roger Marshall. Marshall, currently a US representative for Kansas, is the main Republican rival Kobach faces in the primary for the Senate seat.

Thiel made the decision to donate to the super PAC, called Free Forever, after meeting with its leadership in New York last year and hearing a pitch on Kobach’s chances and why the Senate race wouldn’t turn out like the governor’s race, according to a source familiar with the matter. The tech billionaire has no direct decision-making power at the super PAC — he is merely briefed on the ads and other content it produces after it’s made. But Thiel is pleased enough that he’s cut at least three successive checks to the group, the most recent for a half-million dollars last month.

The expectation that Thiel will sink in even more money — rumors swirl in Kansas politics about the precise size of Thiel’s budget — has kept rival campaigns on their toes.

The super PAC Thiel is backing has spent more than four times what Kobach’s campaign itself has spent on television and radio ads,according to data shared with Recode by the media tracking firm Medium Buying. The heavy amount of mailers sent by the PAC have run the gamut of attacking Marshall as “anti-American” for being insufficiently tough on immigration, alleging that he voted to fund “Rosie O’Donnell summer camp,” “global warming musicals,” and “transgender plays,” and promising that Kobach will “stop the next Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” Thiel may not be making decisions, but the messaging feels Thiel-esque.

If Kobach wins next week, he’ll have a tough general election on his hands, too. Even more Thiel money would almost certainly be needed.

And if Thiel does donate more in the fall, he will likely end up spending more money on Kobach’s behalf than he had on behalf of his previous bet: Trump.

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/ann-coulter-buried-in-ridicule-after-tweeting-out-contradictory-coronavirus-facts/

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Ann Coulter buried in ridicule after tweeting out contradictory coronavirus ‘facts’

Written by Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos March 25, 2020

Ann Coulter’s heyday of being considered worth listening to has long since passed. In recent years, her big play has been to take a far right, extremist view of the world and then attempt an even more incendiary verbal vomit to the public. The conservative angle on COVID-19 is that things are being overblown and that, even though the mortality rate for people older than 65 is frightening, we should probably be ready to sacrifice our older citizens in order to keep billionaires in billions. Well, Ann Coulter has news to own the libs! It turns out that according to Ann and this very nifty graph she has provided, “for people under 60, coronavirus is LESS dangerous than the seasonal flu.” So there. Let’s take a look at that graph, Ann.

Ann Coulter

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For people under 60, coronavirus is LESS dangerous than the seasonal flu:

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Oh. On top of being a racist idiot, it turns out that Ann Coulter might not be able to read and definitely cannot understand how numbers work. As the graph very clearly shows—at least based on the numbers coming out of South Korea, one of the best test areas for this virus—with the exception of people under 30, the mortality rate is considerably higher for those suffering from COVID-19 versus people with the “seasonal flu.”

Here’s a quick math lesson for Coulter:

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@AnnCoulter

For people under 60, coronavirus is LESS dangerous than the seasonal flu:

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0.4 is more than 0.06 - a little less than 10x more.

But maybe Coulter just needs a little more focus?

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For people under 60, coronavirus is LESS dangerous than the seasonal flu:

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Read the fucking chart

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And a more involved math lesson with red ink for Ms. Coulter:

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For people under 60, coronavirus is LESS dangerous than the seasonal flu:

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Teapot Dome was Amateur Hour!

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Here @AnnCoulter I fixed it for you:

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And because Ann Coulter is a shitty racist:

Ann Coulter

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For people under 60, coronavirus is LESS dangerous than the seasonal flu:

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As a representative of the master race, one would think you’d be smarter than this.

And something a little bit more funny in these trying times:

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For people under 60, coronavirus is LESS dangerous than the seasonal flu:

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Teapot Dome was Amateur Hour!

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MATH IS FREAKIN' HARD (and your chart shows EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what you claim).

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This chart would seem to disagree with you, Ann

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And finally, the terrible terrible truth of it all:

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For people under 60, coronavirus is LESS dangerous than the seasonal flu:

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Flatten The Curve! WashYourHands!

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Seven Arrested at UC Berkeley Protest of Ann Coulter Speech

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ann-coulter-protestors-helicopter-berkeley-bcr-14851008.php

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hundreds of protesters encircled Wheeler Hall on the UC Berkeley campus Wednesday night to rally against the appearance of conservative personality Ann Coulter.

Barricades were erected in front of Wheeler Hall, and police in riot gear guarded the main entrances to the building all evening. Beyond the barricades, hundreds of protestors gathered throughout the night, their ranks swelling by Coulter's scheduled 9 p.m. start time. The words "Berkeley stands united against hate" were projected up onto Wheeler, as well as, "Why do the Berkeley College Republicans keep inviting Nazis on campus?"

The right-wing pundit was hosted by the Berkeley College Republicans for a talk called "Adios, America!" The event description said Coulter would be "speaking about the current United States immigration system and the dangers of mass immigration."

Doors technically opened for ticket-holders at 8 p.m., but attendees struggled to get inside with so many demonstrators outside the hall. Some of those protestors chanted, "Don't let them in." One attendee could be seen jumping the barricade, while another group was escorted by police into Wheeler Hall. Several were seen leaving after attempts to get in were thwarted by large crowds.

Attendees are escorted by police into Wheeler Hall. T-minus 20 minutes until the event officially starts! #CoulterProtest pic.twitter.com/iLhc99Ptwm

— Anjali Shrivastava (@anjalii_shrivas) November 21, 2019

“Join the picket, join the fight” protesters chant as students and community members join the picket line, which had grown to hundreds in the past half hour #Coulterprotest pic.twitter.com/Qs61d6YOTr

— Amber Tang (@ambertang_dc) November 21, 2019

Coulter herself was escorted in through the main doors by police. She began speaking shortly before 9:30 p.m., and was almost immediately interrupted by a protester. The protester was handcuffed and removed, according to a KPIX reporter inside Wheeler Hall Auditorium. Coulter gave a brief speech before opening the floor to a Q&A. The entire talk lasted about an hour.

Ann Coulter entering Wheeler Hall with escorts

Also: two helicopters above Berkeley pic.twitter.com/aYcBJjP7TP

— ???? (@not_mapk) November 21, 2019

After the event was over, attendees were escorted out of a side door by police. Hundreds of demonstrators were still assembled outside as they exited.

Seven individuals were arrested throughout the evening, although university spokesman Dan Mogulof could not confirm if or what they were charged with.

This was Coulter's second attempt in three years to speak at Cal.

In 2017, Coulter was scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley, but the conservative group partially funding the talk pulled its support due to concerns there would be inadequate security to handle protestors. Coulter called the school "a radical thuggish institution" and accused the administration of suppressing "the cherished American right to free speech."

At the time, campus spokesman Dan Mogulof said the school had already paid for event security and was prepared to staff Coulter's talk, despite her insinuations that the school had canceled on her.

Coulter regularly speaks out against non-white immigration to the United States, and in 2018 called immigrant children separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border "child actors weeping and crying."

"One may assume the new majority will not be such compassionate overlords as the white majority has been," she wrote in 2007. "If this sort of drastic change were legally imposed on any group other than white Americans, it would be called genocide. Yet whites are called racists merely for mentioning the fact that current immigration law is intentionally designed to reduce their percentage in the population."

Katie Dowd is an SFGATE Senior Digital Editor. Contact: katie.dowd@sfgate.com | Twitter: @katiedowd

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trove of leaked chat messages reportedly from members of white supremacist group**Identity Evropa**shows the group’s appreciation for Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Members praised segments from Tucker Carlson Tonight and fantasized about the idea of him running for president someday.

The nonprofit media organization Unicorn Riot released chat logs used by members of Identity Evropa, a group attempting to sanitize white supremacy by rebranding its racist beliefs as pro-white “identitarianism.” We reviewed hundreds of these messages mentioning Carlson.

The chats show many users praising Carlson for his subtlety in delivering extremist talking points as a strategic way of remaining on the airwaves, explicitly crediting Carlson with “normalizing 80% of [Identity Evropa’s] talking points,” and pointing out that figures like Carlson andNazi sympathizer Ann Coulter“know exactly what they’re doing” to “nudge people further to the right.” Members praise Carlson for “doing divine work” that has “done more for” white supremacists than they “could ever hope to” do.

Carlson has also been praised by white supremacist and neo-Nazi podcasts. We've also put together a full timeline of Carlson's white supremacy.

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/02/we-put-this-lunatic-in-the-white-house-ann-coulter-unleashes-on-trump-in-a-new-interview/

Ann Coulter was among those are the far right who pushed President Donald Trump to force a government shutdown over funding for a border wall at the end of December that extended for five weeks and concluded in humiliating defeat for the entire GOP.

And now, with nothing to show for the reckless and futile gambit, Coulter is angry — and threatening to back a right-wing challenger to man for whom she once wrote a book titled, “In Trump We Trust.”

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“We put this lunatic in the White House for one reason,” she told Yahoo News’ podcast “Skullduggery.” She suggested Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), a far-right member of Congress. He recently claimed that Trump already has the authority to direct U.S. military personnel to build a wall on the Mexican border.

Coulter backed this idea on the podcast, saying, “He doesn’t need to declare an emergency” to get the wall built, as Trump has threatened to do.

But as Yahoo News notes, legal scholar Laurence Tribe vehemently disagreed.

“No!” he said on Twitter. “Inherent presidential power as C-in-Chief dsn’t give Trump the power of the purse. We fought a revolution to end such royal power. And SCOTUS settled the issue in the Steel Seizure decision in 1952: Not even a war entitles POTUS to spend money w/out Congress’ authorization.”

In addition to the threat to bolster an even more right-wing alternative to Trump in 2020, Coulter’s suggestion that she believes Trump is a lunatic is particularly telling and galling. The usual story the media tells about Trump supporters is that they’re so enamored of his style and priorities in politics that they don’t see his obvious flaws. But to admit that you see Trump as a “lunatic” but still fought passionately for his election, solely because of his views on immigration, is stupefying. No reasonable and non-bigoted assessment of immigration should see it as anything like the threat Coulter imagines it to be, but even if you thought immigration was very bad, how could it possibly be worse than putting a “lunatic” in charge of the American nuclear arsenal and military?

Ann Coulter unloaded on Trump in a podcast with The Daily Caller,accusing him of being “a joke presidency who scammed the American people.” Coulter said that she will not vote for Trump in 2020 without a border wall, adding, “nor will, I think, most of his supporters.” (Coulter had also vowed earlier in the week to not support Trump in 2020 if the wall was not built.) Within hours of these comments, the president unfollowed Coulter on Twitter.

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Coulter has repeatedly said that women shouldn't be allowed to vote, and if they'd never been able to vote, we would never have had a Democratic president. She doubled down on these comments in 2015 on Gavin McInnes' Free Speech radio show. Coulter told McInnes, "Women should not have the right to vote" because they are allegedly fueling the liberal agenda. She added, "We can still write books! We can run for office." She continued to rant about women not voting in her book, In Trump We Trust, writing: "It would be a much better country if women did not vote, that is simply a fact."

...oulter has always taken a hard anti-immigration stance, apparently because she views other cultures as "deficient" compared to the United States. "We are bringing in cultures where child rape is the norm," she told news anchor Jorge Ramos in 2015, "where honor killings are the norm, where there's no concept of litter. Our national parks are being overrun. If you don't want to be killed by ISIS, don't go to Syria. If you don't want to be killed by a Mexican, I don't know what to tell you."

Taking it a step further, Coulter said she believes U.S. media intentionally covers up or hides the involvement of immigrants in murder and rape stories. "It's 'spot the immigrant' in this or that heinous crime story," she told Fox's Megyn Kelly. In addition, Coulter blames the Immigration Act of 1965 for changing the demographics of the United States, bringing in more people dependent on the government as a means to bolster support for the Democratic party.

hile Coulter has been anti-immigration across the board, she especially doesn't support immigrants who are disabled. In 2015, Coulter said she doesn't support granting citizenship to immigrants who have disabilities, such as the blind. "We're not running an international charity here," she said on a conservative talk show. "It's insane for any country not to be using its immigration policy to bring in people who are better than us, not people who are instantly going to need taxpayer assistance. We have our own poor people." She went on to show her disrespect for disabled people in her book In Trump We Trust by repeatedly using the word "retard."

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Love Affair With Evil: Is the Border Crisis All About Donald Trump Trying to Win Back Ann Coulter?

Trump keeps ramping up the hate and cruelty, and Coulter loves it. But she won’t be happy until she gets that wall!

By Heather Digby Parton / Salon June 20, 2018, 4:00 AM GMT

Everyone likes to say that the people who go on Fox News really only have an audience of one --- the president. But when President Trump speaks about immigration, he only has an audience of one as well. A couple of months ago I wrote a column about the growing rift between Trump and his most ardent admirer, Ann Coulter. She has been very upset that he hasn't yet built the border wall he promised during the campaign. To her, and Trump supporters like her, that is the most important issue beyond all others.

In that column I noted that Trump, his immigration adviser Stephen Miller also whispering in his ear, was starting to sweat. Two days later, he called for state governors to send National Guard troops to "protect the border."

Meanwhile, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been absorbing insult after insult from the president for his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation back in 2017, all so that he could fulfill their shared goal of closing the borders and deporting as many people as possible. Two days after Trump called out the Guard, Sessions distributed a new border policy requiring that anyone crossing the border illegally must be prosecuted:

Essentially, he said that because Congress had failed to "fully fund" the wall, immigration had become a crisis. That was nonsense. The only crisis was that Ann Coulter was having a fit because Trump hadn't built it yet. And because she is not afraid of Trump, she was calling him out on a daily basis.

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Homeland Security must have dragged its feet, because on April 26 ICE Director Thomas Homan, Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna and Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan sent a memo to DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen telling her she needed to immediately detain and prosecute all parents with children resulting in the separation of families in order to send a message:

In a memorandum that outlines the proposal and was obtained by The Washington Post, officials say that threatening adults with criminal charges and prison time would be the “most effective” way to reverse the steadily rising number of attempted crossings.

Sessions himself gave a couple of speeches on May 7 saying essentially the same thing:

If you’re smuggling a child, then we’re going to prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you, probably, as required by law. If you don’t want your child separated, then don’t bring them across the border illegally. It’s not our fault that somebody does that. ...

We’re not going to stand for this. We are not going to let this country be invaded. We will not be stampeded. We will not capitulate to lawlessness.

That's the kind of language that makes Ann Coulter swoon. But it's not enough. She still wants that wall.

Over the past few weeks this "zero-tolerance" policy and all it implies has resulted in thousands of kids being separated from their parents. It's considered a humanitarian disaster everywhere on the planet -- except on Fox News, where they speak to that audience of one in the White House.

Tucker Carlson has been using blatant white nationalist rhetoric on his show for some time, making the claim this week that people who are critical of this policy are "elites" who want immigrants “to change your country forever and they are succeeding." Brian Kilmeade on "Fox & Friends," Trump's favorite program, went off on a furious rant on Monday morning culminating in this odious comment:

These kids get fanned out to working-class neighborhoods, into our society, and then they have to be paid for English as a Second Language and then they have got to be schooled and a lot of them — sadly, in my neighborhood — turn into MS-13.

Laura Ingraham agrees with Kilmeade that the children being incarcerated at the border are "fresh recruits" for MS-13. As a measure of just how far gone they are, Ingraham's interview with Sessions on Monday night cleared up the difference between the Trump administration and the Nazi persecution of Jews when Sessions pointed out that the Nazis wouldn't let the Jews leave the country.

But the person who really takes it to the next level is the president himself. He's been using increasingly eliminationist language to talk about immigrants in public. Lately Trump's vocabulary has included such words and phrases as "infest," "thugs," "infiltrate," "killers," "criminals," "under siege," "massive crime," "crime-infested," "breeding," "pour into our country" and "animals." We know that in private he has said he doesn't want people coming in from "shithole countries" and worries that those who come in won't "go back to their huts."

Coulter loves that too, but she remains unsatisfied.

Trump was supposed to deliver a speech about the economy on Tuesday to the National Federation of Independent Businesses and instead turned it into a Trump rally where he demagogued American allies and immigrants alike. It was a typically ugly display but what was startling was the audience lustily cheering.

Chuck Todd of "Meet the Press" had the same reaction I did:

The NFIB, a small business association, I've never associated with that kind of nativism. I just -- it shocked me a little bit. Maybe it's just individual members, maybe it's a handful of people. I am shocked by that kind of reception.

It wasn't just a handful of people.

Trump's unctuous factotum Stephen Miller thinks being cruel to children is a winning electoral issue and Trump agrees. (He's comparing it to what he believes was a fantastically successful NFL-kneeling achievement.) It looks like we're going to find out if they're right.

But Coulter still wants her wall. And that's really what this is about, at least for Trump.

He is holding all those kids at the border for ransom. According to Politico, Trump is beside himself over the fact that Congress won't consider his request for $25 billion up front to build his wall and is instead planning to appropriate the mere $1.6 billion his budget director, Mick Mulvaney, requested. Trump is not only holding those kids hostage, he's also threatening to shut down the government in September if he doesn't get his $25 billion.

If Congress capitulates to his demands there will be no end to it. Ann Coulter's wish list is as long as it is awful and Trump will do anything to keep her happy. She and her fellow extremists have him wrapped around their little finger

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CPAC, seems to have gotten more attention than usual. That's saying something, since for the last 15 years or so it's gotten much more attention than it deserves. CPAC is like a 10-car pile-up — frightening and horrible, but you can't look away.

Salon's Jeremy Binckes and Matthew Sheffield have each weighed in on this year's event -- with Binckes making the case that it shows that the GOP is now thoroughly Trumpified while Sheffield argues that it's now Trump who's been absorbed by the Republican Party. I think CPAC shows that the Trump strain has always been slithering around under the rock of conservative movement politics, and 2016 just turned it over and let it run amok.

The first CPAC was organized to bring young conservatives and political activists together for a conference to map out movement and electoral strategy. It took place in 1974 in the midst of the Watergate scandal, which divided the conference between those who thought Richard Nixon was toast and those who wanted him to fight on. It was, by all accounts, a very lively disagreement. They turned to the man they all agreed was the Great Conservative Hope, Gov. Ronald Reagan of California, who was the keynote speaker and gave one of his most important speeches, heralding his strong primary run against Gerald Ford in 1976 and his winning campaign in 1980.

Reagan introduced three former U.S. military prisoners of war in that speech, one of whom was John McCain, to reverent, thunderous applause. This year the longtime Arizona senator, who has a brain tumor and may well be near the end of his life, was insulted by the president of the United States from the CPAC podium. That shouldn't have come as any surprise. The CPAC podium, for at least the last couple of decades, is where decency and humanity go to die.

I won't go into the horrors of the 1990s. The party under former House speaker Newt Gingrich was as aggressively obnoxious as it is today: That was the height of the "vast right wing conspiracy's" power. Let's just say that in 1994 CPAC was where Paula Jones made her debut and leave it at that.

It was during the glory years of the George W. Bush administration that the media started paying close attention to what was really going on there. Michelle Goldberg wrote for Salon in 2003 that there were "t-shirts with the words 'Islam: Religion of Peace' surrounding a photo of a bomb with the word 'Allah' on its timer," among dozens of other hideous anti-Muslim items for sale that were flying off the shelves. Remember, this was during the time Bush was telling his followers that Islam was a religion of peace.

But it didn't matter. CPAC attendees may have hated Muslims but they loved Bush. In fact, they loved him almost as much as the sainted Ronald Reagan, whom they continued to worship like a god. The Iraq war got their blood pumping wildly and this was how they wanted to see their president:

One of the biggest attractions at the conference for many years was the odious Ann Coulter, who packed the room with rapturous fans screaming with delight at her indecent commentary. Back in 2003, she made one of her most famous shocking statements, which has since been taken up by none other than her hero Donald Trump: "Why shouldn't we go to war for oil. We need oil." In 2006 she got into her groove with, “I think our motto should be, post-9/11, ‘raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences.’” In response to a question about her biggest ethical dilemma, Coulter said, “There was one time I had a shot at [Bill] Clinton. I thought ‘Ann, that’s not going to help your career.’”

She really hit her comedic stride in 2007, however, when she dropped this bomb:

I was going to talk about the other Democratic candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word “faggot.”

She got a huge ovation for that one, but it seemed to upset some of the old guard and Coulter was disinvited the next year. Organizers replaced her with an even bigger draw in 2009, Rush Limbaugh, who gave a memorable, rambling speech bucking up the crowd to oppose anything the new President Barack Obama wanted to do. Down in the bowels of the conference where the merchandise was being flogged they were selling racist pictures of Obama dressed as a witch doctor.

In 2011, when Donald Trump made his first appearance and started the original buzz about his potential candidacy, he said in his speech, "Our current president came out of nowhere. Came out of nowhere. In fact, I'll go a step further. The people that went to school with him never saw him; they don't know who he is. Crazy." He went on Bill O'Reilly's show that night and said he had investigators in Hawaii looking for Obama's birth certificate. The rest is history.

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Next up on the big screen was another Republican woman. There she was, talking to students at a campus meeting about Iraq. "Suppose, for the sake of argument, this was a war just for oil," she told them. "We need oil. Why not go to war for oil?"

This was Ann Coulter,the mind of Rush Limbaugh in the body of Lisa Kudrow, a witty and blazingly right-wing columnist and chat-show guest who cannot quite make up her mind whether she is a comedian or a serious political analyst - a combination that may be easier to get away with over there. As the star of the documentary Is It True What They Say About Ann? she had American Renaissance festival-goers rolling over and purring. They already knew her greatest moments off by heart: the time she called Joe McCarthy a great American patriot, those liberal media types she bested head to head on TV (in these clips, at least), and her most notorious opinion, expressed shortly after 9/11. She wrote: "It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

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In one of her more unhinged rants, professional conservative banshee Ann Coulter claimed that Kwanzaa is a “made-up racist holiday” peddled by the FBI to sow division among African-Americans.

Coulter’s column, which has been republished by the likes of Breitbart, World Net Daily and Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire, audaciously posited an alternative history of the pan-African holiday and its creator, Dr. Ron Karenga. This isn’t her first year writing it, either — she wrote a remarkably similar column in 2013, whose main difference is that it references “Duck Dynasty.”

According to Coulter, Karenga is a “black radical/FBI stooge,” and his group United Slaves were rivals to the Black Panthers. Her analysis appears to stem from declassified documents proving that Karenga and United Slaves were targets of the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), and division between the pro-black groups was intentionally sowed by the bureau. As an extension of those efforts, Coulter’s column appeared to infer, Karenga went on to create the holiday meant to be celebrated by black people around the world to … continue to drive a wedge between black people, somehow.

Now a professor of Africana studies at California State University at Long Beach, Karenga was imprisoned for kidnapping and torturing women in 1971. Coulter curiously doesn’t mention this in her column, opting instead to muse about “whether Karenga was a willing FBI dupe, or just a dupe.”

At the end of her the alternative history she provided, Coulter even created a Kwanzaa-themed carol, set to “Jingle Bells.”

“Kwanzaa bells, dashikis sell

Whitey has to pay;

Burning, shooting, oh what fun

On this made-up holiday!”

“Only white liberals take Kwanzaa seriously,” she wrote at her conclusion. “American Blacks celebrate Christmas.”

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Ann Coulter has fallen from grace — and the reason why is terrifying

The right-wing hate-monger has fallen on hard times. This should be a cause for celebration -- but it's far from it

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Ann Coulter has fallen from grace — and the reason why is terrifying

Ten years ago, Ann Coulter was featured on the cover of Time magazine with an article entitled “Ms. Right.” At the time she was a very big presence in the political media but the article pushed her into the realm of popular culture; thus, she became more than just a political bomb thrower. She’d always had the looks and the confidence, and now she had the imprimatur of the mainstream media. Coulter became a full-fledged star.

The article caused a tremendous stir. After all, Coulter was among the most flamboyant of the newer, edgier breed of right-wing provocateurs. In 2000, she had won the Media Research Center-presented “Conservative Journalist of the Year” award, and the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute gave her its annual conservative leadership award “for her unfailing dedication to truth, freedom and conservative values and for being an exemplar, in word and deed, of what a true leader is.” It seemed as if she and her incendiary polemics were everywhere, from daily personal appearances on television, her weekly newspaper columns and a series of books that were extremely popular among right-wingers.

From 1998 to 2005, when the magazine cover appeared, she had published a series of books — “High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton,” “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right,” “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism,” and a collection of her columns, called “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter” — all of which were very successful. The theme of these books is obvious from the titles. She was famous for her cleverness in hating and baiting liberals. And in those heady days of conservative apotheosis, with sex scandals, stolen elections, terrorist attacks, unnecessary wars and liberalism on the run as never before, Coulter was the most deliciously vicious of all the haters. Among her famous quotes of the era were:

The “backbone of the Democratic Party” is a “typical fat, implacable welfare recipient.”

“My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that’s because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism.”

“If you don’t hate Clinton and the people who labored to keep him in office, you don’t love your country.”

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity”

“Congress could pass a law tomorrow requiring that all aliens from Arabic countries leave… We should require passports to fly domestically. Passports can be forged, but they can also be checked with the home country in case of any suspicious-looking swarthy males.”

And one of her most memorable (to me at least) was this one:

“We need to execute people like John Walker [Lindh] in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors,”

“When I said we should ‘execute’ John Walker Lindh, I mis-spoke. What I meant to say was ‘We should burn John Walker Lindh alive and televise it on prime-time network TV’. My apologies for any misunderstanding that might have occurred.”

If that reminds you of certain fundamentalists operating today in the Middle East, you wouldn’t be alone.

“Slander” and “Treason” were filled with such vitriol. And they were also cited by numerous critics for their many inaccuracies. Coulter, like her talk radio funhouse mirror image, Rush Limbaugh, always slithered away from any such controversies simply by claiming that she’s a comedian of sorts. Here’s how that Time Magazine article illustrated her comedic talent:

People say that Jon Stewart has blurred the line between news and humor, but his Daily Show airs on a comedy channel. Coulter goes on actual news programs and deploys so much sarcasm and hyperbole that she sounds more like comedian Dennis Miller on one of his rants than Limbaugh. Consider an exchange on Fox News in June 2001 with Peter Fenn, a Democratic strategist. At the time, Barbra Streisand had suggested that Californians practice more conservation, to which Coulter responded:

COULTER: God gave us the earth.

FENN: Oh, O.K.

COULTER: We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the seas.

FENN: Oh, this is a great idea.

COULTER: God said, ‘Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.’

Coulter and Fenn were both laughing. But her rape-the-planet bit would later be wrenched from context and repeatedly quoted as Coulter nuttiness. “What p_ me off,” Coulter says, “is when they don’t get the punch line.”

There was a lot of controversy over Coulter’s words in that exchange, but the author of the Time puff piece, John Cloud, helpfully explained that it was only because they didn’t understand the context. A lot of people believed him after reading that article, people like MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell who said in 2006:

Do not make the mistake of taking Ann Coulter seriously. She does fancy herself something of a comedian, a political comedian, and when you press her on a lot of these things, you find out that what’s really underneath it is the intent to make a joke. Now, it’s a joke that generally works only with the extreme right wing of the Republican Party. But she doesn’t mean a great deal of what she says.

While the Time story gave Coulter cover for her noxious commentary, it caused John Cloud a world of hurt from critics who weren’t as impressed with his light treatment of his subject. Media critic Brendan Nyhan wrote:

After working on Spinsanity for more than three years, I’ve seen a lot of bad political journalism. But John Cloud’s article about Ann Coulter in Time still shocked me (note: it’s not online yet for non-subscribers, unfortunately). It manages to bring together everything that’s wrong with contemporary political coverage: the obsession with being counter-intuitive; the pervasive unwillingness to check facts; and the focus on “fairness” and “balance” rather than critical reporting. A non-journalist might ask an obvious question: Why write a cover article about Ann Coulter in the first place? It’s widely understood that she’s a shrill, destructive demagogue. But to Cloud the distaste that both liberals and conservatives show for her is “suspicious”:

“Ann Coulter burns too fiercely for both the temples of the secular left–the New York Times–and of the religious right–[Jerry] Falwell’s Thomas Road Baptist Church. But it’s suspicious when conventional wisdom ossifies around someone so thoroughly. Why does she make so many people itch?”

Maybe because she’s said an astonishing number of things that no reasonable person could possibly defend? Or because she’s pathologically dishonest? Call me crazy, but the answer seems pretty obvious. I doubt Cloud is running around asking why both the left and right distance themselves from out-and-out racists — is that “suspicious”?

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College Republicans, YAF Demand Ann Coulter Berkeley Event Follow

The UC Berkeley College Republicans and Young America’s Foundation have demanded in a legal letter to college administrators that Ann Coulter’s upcoming event follows its original schedule.

After begrudgingly allowing the event to move forward, the university, which has previously derailed events by conservative author David Horowitz and former Breitbart senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos, attempted to change the date, time, and location of the speech so that a limited amount of students would be able to attend, prompting the Berkeley College Republicans and the Young America’s Foundation to take legal action.

It was previously reported that UC Berkeley had reversed their decision to cancel Coulter’s speech; however, the popular conservative author and commentator took to Twitter on Thursday to dispute these claims.

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In addition to facts: We've already spent $ for 4/27 Berkeley spc & I can't do May 2...THERE ARE NO CLASSES AT BERKELEY THE WEEK OF MAY 2!!!

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Do not fall for b.s Berkeley press release claiming they “rescinded” cancelation. They added NEW, more burdensome condition on my const rts.https://twitter.com/REALStaceyDash/status/855190582817325061 …

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In the letter sent to UC Berkeley’s Vice Chancellor Sutton, the law firm claimed that the university was violating the First Amendment. “The University’s actions violate fundamental principles of free speech, equal protection, and due process guaranteed by the United States Constitution, and will not be tolerated,” wrote Harmeet K. Dhillon from Dhillon Law Group Inc., which is representing Young America’s Foundation (YAF) and the Berkeley College Republicans (BCR).

“Our clients meticulously followed University protocol in arranging for Ms. Coulter’s planned, on-campus speaking event,” he continued, noting YAF, BCR, and Coulter also “conceded to the University’s arbitrary, pretextual and discriminatory time-and place-restrictions which, on their face, violate the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.”

Dhillon stated Dean of Students Joseph Greenwell had told BCR that he “was securing a room on campus for the Coulter event” on April 18, but the next day Interim Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Stephen C. Sutton “abruptly informed our clients that the Coulter event was cancelled due to the University’s alleged inability to ‘find a safe and suitable venue’ for the event on the scheduled April 27th date.”

Dhillon says Sutton initially suggested rescheduling Coulter’s speaking event in September and that Berkeley “would ‘need at least four weeks [sic] notice’ to re-schedule the event.” He criticized Berkeley for suddenly rescheduling Coulter’s appearance for May 2 following intense backlash to the news of her event being banned: “UC Berkeley’s newfound flexibility strains credulity, and its four-week arbitrary notice rule imposed on conservative invitees appears to be an utter sham.”

“The University’s transparently insincere offer to permit Ms. Coulter to speak during a two-hour window of time on May 2 when the students who invited here will not be in class and will instead by studying for finals, and when Ms. Coulter will no longer be in the area, is not a suitable alternative (indeed – it does not even pass the proverbial ‘smell test’ of credibility), and we hereby reject it,” he declared.

“It is ironic that UC Berkeley, known to many Americans as the birthplace of the free speech movement, is now leading the vanguard to silence conservative speech on campus,” he concluded. “We demand that UC Berkeley honor its obligation to respect the First Amendment rights of its students, without regard to their political preference or affiliation, by ensuring that Ms. Coulter be allowed to speak on campus on April 27… during late afternoon or evening hours, and in a central location.”

Coulter has repeatedly claimed that she plans to speak anyway, despite restrictions placed on the event by the university, though she has not yet elaborated as to what exactly this means.

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I'm speaking at Berkeley on April 27th, as I was invited to do and have a contract to do. https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/855208405694271488 …

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GOOD NEWS FOR CA TAXPAYER! You won't be required to pay to compensate me & my crew for rebooked airfare & hotels. I'm speaking on 4/27. https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/855208689443065856 …

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The letter can be read in full below:

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On March 28, Young America’s Foundation announced it had booked conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter to speak at the University of California–Berkeley on April 27.

Since 1998, Young America’s Foundation and Ann Coulter have worked together to bring a conservative viewpoint to America’s notoriously liberal college campuses. Ann is also an alumnus of the Foundation’s National Journalism Center, and is a mainstay of YAF’s campus lecture circuit.

Coulter is a twelve-time New York Times bestselling author and syndicated columnist who previously worked in the Senate Judiciary Committee and as a successful litigator defending First Amendment rights.

Ann’s qualifications would normally lead to campuses honoring her accomplishments and rolling out the red carpet for a lecture appearance. But for one reason alone–the fact that she is a bold conservative who openly shares her conservative principles–the leftists that monopolize campuses and classrooms revile her.

Young America’s Foundation and Coulter remain committed to bringing conservatism to Berkeley’s embattled campus despite past opposition to conservatives and the actions by radical leftists to lay siege to their own school and community.

In addition to providing a large portion of the funding to bring Coulter to Berkeley, Young America’s Foundation provides logistical support before the event as well as on-the-ground support from experienced staff.

We challenge UC Berkeley’s administration, staff, and students to act in accordance with their “Principles of Community” which include:

“affirm[ing] the dignity of all individuals”

not tolerating “discrimination and hate”

“ensuring freedom of expression and dialogue that elicits the full spectrum of views”

“civility and respect in [our] personal interactions.”

The only members of the Berkeley community who regularly breach these “principles” are intolerant leftists who burn trash, shatter windows, and shout down speakers they disagree with. It is the Foundation’s hope that Berkeley will hold liberals accountable if their previously exhibited childish behavior is repeated.

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Coulter is the author of eight New York Times bestsellers —Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America(June 2011);Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault on America(January 2009);If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans (October, 2007); Godless: The Church of Liberalism(June 2006); How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) (October, 2004); Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (June 2003); Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right(June 2002); and High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton(August 1998).

Coulter is the legal correspondent for Human Events and writes a popular syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate.

She is a frequent guest on many TV shows, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Early Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Hannity, The O’Reilly Factor, The Glenn Beck Show, HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, and has been profiled in numerous publications, including TV Guide, the Guardian (UK), the New York Observer, National Journal, Harper’s Bazaar, and Elle magazine. She was the April 25, 2005 cover story of Time magazine.

In 2001, Coulter was named one of the top 100 Public Intellectuals by federal judge Richard Posner.

A Connecticut native, Coulter graduated with honors from Cornell University School of Arts & Sciences, and received her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of The Michigan Law Review.

Coulter clerked for the Honorable Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and was an attorney in the Department of Justice Honors Program for outstanding law school graduates.

After practicing law in private practice in New York City, Coulter worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan. From there, she became a litigator with the Center For Individual Rights in Washington, DC, a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights, and the free exercise of religion.

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Feb 1, 2008

CPAC Organizers Dump Ann Coulter From This Year’s Speaking List

By Ben Armbruster

On February 7–9, conservatives from around the country will gather in Washington, D.C. for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). This year, one of the darlings of the far right’s oft-distasteful and unpleasant punditry will not be invited:

She’s always been outrageous, but when conservative Ann Coulter talked of 9/11 “rag heads” at the 2006 Conservative Political Action Conference and linked the slur “faggot” to Sen. John Edwards in a 2007 speech, CPAC’s organizers decided to cut her from the list of speakers at the February 7–9 conference expected to draw 6,000.

At CPAC 2006, Coulter referred to Muslims as “raghead[s].” At CPAC 2007, she said she couldn’t “really talk about” then-Democratic presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards because “you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot.’” Watch it:

Coulter may not be a part of the formal CPAC program, but rest assured that the presence of this “great American” will still be felt.

A few of Coulter’s supporters found a way for her to appear at the conference. Five of this year’s CPAC sponsors?—?the Young America’s Foundation (YAF), Human Events, Townhall.com, Citizens United, and Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute?—?have decided to hold a “Q & A session” with Coulter that “is not part of the general sessions.”

YAF president Ron Robinson said “it’s unfortunate that Ann Coulter is not speaking at CPAC” because she is “a powerhouse for young people” and “one major reason that CPAC is so successful.”

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...Pessimistic Interpretation: Why Trump Will Probably be That Bad

Trump is a national populist with a zero-sum worldview.  His long opposition to trade with Japan and now China and Mexico shows that he doesn’t understand how voluntary exchanges are mutually beneficial.  Opinions on trade and immigration are tightly correlated.  His 2013 statements on immigration reform could mean that he thought the Senate’s 2013 bill would destroy the Republican Party.

Trump’s immigration position paper is detailed, specific, and terrible.  It supports drastic cuts in legal immigration and refugees as well as harsh new enforcement measures like a border wall, mandatory E-Verify, and a greatly expanded deportation force.  Many think this plan was inspired by Ann Coulter’s recent book on the subject and some of his statementssupport that theory.  In return, Coulter called Trump’s immigration position paper, “the greatest political document since the Magna Carta.”

When Trump looked like he was wavering from his immigration position in the final week of August 2016, Coulter mocked him.  In her recent book In Trump We Trust, she wrote, “There’s nothing Trump can do that won’t be forgiven … Except change his immigration policies.”   Trump’s response was a blistering speech in Phoenix on August 31, 2016, where he doubled-down on his immigration stance and even read out portions of his position paper.  Coulter gave the speech her seal of approval, declaring it “better than Lincoln’s Gettysburg address.”  

Virtually every time Trump looked like he was wavering in his opposition to legal immigration or stepped up enforcement, he quickly reversed course.  When he has spoken off the cuff about immigration, it has almost always been negative and supportive of deportations, cutting legal immigration, and linking immigrants to crime.  If speaking off the cuff reveals Trump’s real opinions then they are largely consistent with his policy positions.

Trump’s presumptive picks for positions in his administration are opposed to immigration reform, support more enforcement, and generally favor cutting legal immigration.  Steve Bannon, the former executive chairman of the nativist Breitbart News and chief executive office of Trump’s 2016 campaign, looks to be on the shortlist for Chief of Staff.  Breitbart’s immigration position is well known....

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oward Ann Coulter I had always taken a “suffer little children to come unto me” attitude. Not that she ever came on to me or anything. It’s just that she’s a kid. She was born in 1961. I’ve got skinny Brooks Brothers neckties in the back of my closet older than that.

Ann Coulter grew up during the “I-was-conservative-after-conservatism-was-cool” era, helping found the Cornell Reviewin the early 1980s. She’s noisy and she gives me a headache. But kids are, and kids do. I have several.

She’s from Connecticut and is very upset about immigrants. I am willing to lend a sympathetic ear to people from Connecticut who are very upset about immigrants, if they have a tribal casino.

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And I forgive her for supporting Donald Trump. Kids do that stuff. My 17-year-old daughter has wheedled the car keys and right now is out probably behaving at least as stupidly.

Other than that I’ve been, I suppose, to the extent I’ve paid attention, on the same political page as Ann Coulter. Well, in the same political book, several chapters further on, under the subhead “Grumpy Old Farts and the Libertarian/Neocon Conundrum.”

Then, during the September 16 Republican presidential candidates’ debate, Ann Coulter twittered or tweeted or whatever the verb form of that waste of time may be.

She is young, scatter-brained, and heedless, but she is not an idiot. She graduated cum laude from Cornell and has a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. But no intelligent hike through the Minotaur’s labyrinth of politics can be made in 140-character baby steps. Especially when you’re walking in clown shoes.

What Ann Coulter tweeted was:

What Ann Coulter tweeted wa: Cruz, Huckaee Ruio all mentioned IRAL in their repone to: “What will AMRICA look like after ou are preident.” And How man f—ing Jew do thee people think there are in the United tate? Not anwhere near a man a there would and hould e if FDR hadn’t een a much of a jerk aout immigration a ou are, Ann, ou etiolated ean prout utt trumpet. A to wh Irael i important, to paraphrae John F. Kenned, “Toda, in the world of freedom, the proudet oat i ‘Ikh in a Ihral.’ ” And I mean it, even if, pope-kiing Mick that I am, m Yiddih i mae ketch. Partl thi i peronal, Ann, ou jangle-tongue, ou all-clapper- and-no-carillon, ou crack in the Liert ell. To paraphrae Jerr einfeld, “It’ not me, it’ ou.”

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/09/17/ann-coulter-seizes-on-gop-debate-to-launch-dero/205605

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6/15

Ann Coulter Credits White Nationalist As "Intellectual Influence" On Her Anti-Immigrant Book

Conservative author Ann Coulter credited a 1992 National Review article for her attacks on progressive immigration policy, which have culminated in her latest book, Adios, America. The author of that article, Peter Brimelow, has been labeled a white nationalist by the Southern Poverty Law Center and is the editor of the anti-immigrant website VDARE.com.

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TP: How did you first become interested in immigration?

A: Peter Brimelow's front page article in National Review. [But] then I never wrote about it. I was practicing law then, and you know you live in a bubble in college and law school. I suppose I believed all the Jack Kemp nonsense. I read that cover story in National Reviewand realized I'd been had. I've been lied to. Oh my gosh! It was the only time I remember completely changing my mind about something. Of course there wasn't that much to change because immigration wasn't something I had ever thought about. I was like a lot of Americans to this day, you just go along: We're a nation of immigrants, immigration is a wonderful thing, aren't they hard workers, blah, blah, blah. And since I become a writer, Peter has been haranguing me, demanding to know why I haven't written about immigration. I kept telling him, because you said it all. I've nothing new to say. So I am pleased that with this book--you have to get to chapter 7 and you start hitting things that, I think, surprised even Peter. He wanted me to start the book at chapter 7: Just skip everything before, everybody knows that first stuff, Ann. But I had to stay: If only everybody did know that stuff. *Chronicles*, [6/8/15, via Right Wing Watch]

http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/06/10/ann-coulter-credits-white-nationalist-as-intell/203962

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WT  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/26/ann-coulter-any-growing-interest-soccer-can-only-b/

nn Coulter: ‘Interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation’s moral decay’

It seems conservative pundit Ann Coulter is no fan of the World Cup, or of soccer in general, quipping in her column Thursday that, “Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation’s moral decay.”

She also took “liberal” soccer moms to task, writing that they “like soccer because it’s a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.”

PHOTOS: World Cup's sexiest WAGs

Another flaw of soccer, according to Ms. Coulter? “It’s foreign,” she writes, adding, “I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.”

Some American journalists took issue with Ms. Coulter’s opinions. According to Mediaite, Fox’s Shep Smith, applauding America’s World Cup advancement Thursday, said, “It is a great day in the USA. The U.S. men’s soccer team is heading to the next round of the World Cup, off to the knockout stage, number two in the group, and [then] we’re through [to the next round].”

And then he paused, turned to the camera and said, “I’m told it’s a sign of moral decay,” before shaking his head and adding, “It’s not.”

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/26/ann-coulter-any-growing-interest-soccer-can-only-b/#ixzz35r6m6Ohv 

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Climategate: When Ann Coulter and Jon Stewart agree …

December 4, 2009Posted by William Dembski under Climate change, Global Warming27 Comments

… then you know that the fraud is real:

Ann Coulter at Townhall

Jon Stewart on the Daily Show

new book demonic;

daily caller:  http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/06/top-10-shocking-things-in-ann-coulter%E2%80%99s-book-demonic-that-will-drive-liberals-crazy/

Ann Coulter’s books are never tame.

Her latest book, “Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America,” will start enraging liberals with its very title – which is par for the course for the author of such liberal-bashing classics as “Godless” and “Treason.”

The Daily Caller has put together the top 10 quotes and arguments from her latest tome that are most likely to make Chris Matthews’s head explode – and possibly even disturb some on the right.

10.) Democrats are anti-science

Reversing the Democratic mantra that Republicans are “anti-science,” Coulter says it is really the Democratic mob that abhors science and technological innovation.

“The Left’s abject terror of technological development is yet another mob attribute,” she writes.

Quoting Gustave Le Bon, whose theory on mobs is the main intellectual foundation of her book, Coulter writes, “Thus, according to Le Bon, if ‘democracies possessed the power they wield today at the time of the invention of mechanical looms or of the introduction of steam-power and of railways, the realization of these inventions would have been impossible.”

But, Coulter argues, “Our liberals are even worse than Le Bon imagined. Democrats don’t merely want to block scientific progress, they want to stop scientific progress, they want to roll it back.”

She then cites, as examples, Al Gore’s call in his “global warming fantasy bookEarth in the Balance”for the elimination of the internal combustion engine within 25 years, the Democrat’s 2007 bill to eliminate the incandescent light bulbby 2014, Obamacare, which she says will hamper medical innovation, and the Democrats’ incessant hectoring of theoiland pharmaceutical industries – industries, Coulter writes, that “are two of the most innovative.”

She goes on: “Indeed, the only way to get liberals interested in novel scientific research is to propose going after human embryos,” citing liberals love of embryonic stem cell research over adult stem cell research when the science on the latter is more promising according to her.

9.) Liberals are not a part of the American tradition

“The men behind the American Revolution – the militias, the Minutemen, and the signers of the Declaration of Independence, as well as the framers of the Constitution – were the very opposite of the mob. Today we would call them ‘Republicans,’” she writes at one point in the book

“Liberals’ history is not this country’s history – theirs is the history of the mob,” she writes in another.

8.) Liberal social consciousness manifests itself in the killing of American soldiers

Though a joke, this one will still enrage:

“If the Weatherman had succeeded in transporting their bombs to the Fort Dix dance, instead of blowing themselves up, they would have murdered lots of U.S. serviceman and their dates. For liberals, that’s social consciousness,” she writes.

7.) Republican “Southern Strategy” was not racist

“The entire basis of the liberals’ ‘Southern Strategy’ myth is the sophisticated belief that anyone who votes Republican must be a racist,” Coulter writes.

“If Nixon had planned to appeal to white racists, speeding up desegregation was not an effective strategy. But he turned around and won an even bigger landslide in 1972, running against George McGovern and the party of acid, abortion, and amnesty,” she argues.

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LARAMIE, Wyo. -- Ann Coulter was bringing her edgy brand of conservatism to the University of Wyoming Thursday, a year after the school drew widespread criticism for its handling of an appearance by Bill Ayers, a Vietnam-era radical who is now a professor.

Coulter is known for her biting criticism of liberals through her television appearances. Her speech topic Thursday night: "Why the liberals are wrong about everything!"

An anonymous donor upset with Ayers' April 2010 appearance in Laramie paid for half of Coulter's $20,000 speaking fee. UW's College Republicans and the Young America's Foundation, a Virginia-based group that promotes conservative ideas on college campuses, were paying the remainder and other expenses.

The university's handling of the visit by Ayers, a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, generated criticism from all sides. The university invited him, then canceled his speech because many residents and UW alumni threatened to withhold contributions to the school.

Ayers co-founded the Weather Underground, an anti-war group that claimed responsibility for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol.

He was a fugitive for years but surrendered in 1980. Charges were dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct.

In Casper, U.S. District Chief Judge William Downes ordered the university to let Ayers speak. As a Vietnam veteran, Downes said he could "scarcely swallow the bile" of his contempt for the Weather Underground, but added a free society must guarantee free speech.

Ayers ultimately dealt mostly with education issues in his speech.

His past briefly became an issue during the 2008 presidential race because he once served with Barack Obama on the board of a Chicago charity. Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin accused Obama of "palling around with terrorists."

huffpo

Ann Coulter appeared on Thursday's "O'Reilly Factor" to advance an argument that she made in a column this week: that radiation is "good for you."

There has been a high degree of concern about the levels of radiation being released into the environment due to the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. But, in a column called "A Glowing Report On Radiation," Coulter said that many scientists have been studying the effects of radiation and have found that, as she put it," at some level--much higher than the minimums set by the U.S. government--radiation is good for you," and actually reduced the risk of cancer.

She repeated this assertion to a skeptical Bill O'Reilly, who told her that, even if there was scientific discussion going on about the effects of radiation, it was the media's job to be "responsible" and "err on the side of caution" about radiation. "You have to report the worst-case scenario," he said, adding that there is a clear scientific consensus that "some radiation will kill you."

Coulter said she disagreed, and said that the scientific consensus has changed, but that the media are not reporting it.

"So by your account we should all be heading towards the nuclear reactor," O'Reilly said.

cpac 2011 moe journalists should be in jail) b/c?

fired 2x msnbc now back?

dude; god says earth  is yours, take it rape it, it's yours  june 22  01, hannity and colmes fox p 241

Another example of how collegial networks such as the Federalist Society advance ideas and actions, as well as careers, is the case of author and legal commentator Ann Coulter.^148 Coulter attended Cornell University, where she launched the conservative Cornell Review, part of the conservative Collegiate Network funded by Scaife. She trained at the National Journalism Center, run by conservative columnist M. Stanton Evans, whose lectures are sometimes sponsored by the Young America's Foundation. The Center claims no partisan bias but its lecturers and postings are skewed to the right. The center receives funding from the conservative Olin Foundation. While at the University of Michigan law school, Coulter founded the local chapter of the Federalist Society. After the Republicans Congressional takeover in 1994, Coulter joined the staff of Sen. Spencer Abraham, (R-MI), a Federalist Society activist. She then became a legal commentator for MSNBC.

Coulter's book was published by Regnery. Phillips/Eagle, a major owner of Regnery, also publishes Human Events.^149 Coulter went to work for the Scaife-funded Center for Individual Rights, then as a legal affairs writer for Human Events, which had previously run a favorable review of her book. Coulter also played matchmaker, helping Paula Jones find lawyers and suggesting that attorney Jim Moody help Linda Tripp with her legal problems.^150

http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-20.html

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ann_Coulter

Ann Coulter is "a lawyer and author, famous for despising anyone politically left of Ronald Reagan" [1], and one of the most vitriolic right-wing ideologues currently appearing on national television. [2]

"Political positions Coulter disagrees with are briefly, brusquely, and often inaccurately described, then dismissed, often with an insult. The same steps are repeated several times per column. The technique is enthralling for readers already in agreement with Coulter. For anyone else, it is uninteresting.

"Coulter was fired from MSNBC when she told a disabled Vietnam veteran, 'people like you caused us to lose that war.' She was fired from the conservative National Review when she turned in a column offering a final solution to the Muslim problem: 'We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity'." [3]

In July 2004, USA TODAY "dropped plans" to have Coulter "write a daily column" from the Democratic National Convention "in a dispute over the first column she had written about the Democrats." [4]

In college, she was an editor of the *Cornell Review* - a part of the conservative campus news network supported by Collegiate Network - and a founder of a local chapter of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies at the University of Michigan. She did an internship at the National Journalism Center. After then-Senator Spencer Abraham - who was active in the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies - was elected in 1994, she served a stint as his aide.

Coulter also worked for the Scaife-funded Center for Individual Rights and played a role in helping Paula Jones find lawyers and, according to Chip Berlet, "suggesting that Jim Moody help Linda Tripp with her legal problems".[5]

JC Big Lies

dumped by Nat'l rev iew tho made circuit/networks w/ slander book.  siad we shd invade muslim co's, kill leaders and xianize them p 31

called for assassination of nyt reporter?

also have said on many occasions that I do not like Ann Coulter. For me, the final straw was when she said:

My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.

She is unapologetic about that statement, telling John Hawkins:

Of course I regret it. I should have added, “after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters.”

Ha, ha. Get it? McVeigh shouldn’t have killed everyone in the New York Times building. He should have killed only the editors and reporters.