Chuck DarwinRepublican leaders are now adopting increasingly #autocratic measures, using the #police #powers of government to impose #moralized #regulations, turning #private #citizens into #enforcement #officers and #expelling defiant elected #Democrats just as county Republican parties, particularly in Western states, are electing #militia #members, #Christian #nationalists and #QAnon #believers to key posts.
Here’s one example. Last November, the Republican Party of Clackamas County in Oregon chose a new vice chairman, Daniel Tooze, a #Proud #Boy from Oregon City, and Rick Riley, the head of the county chapter of #Take #Back #America, which denies the results of the 2020 presidential election, as chairman.
Oregon Public Broadcasting reported that in central Oregon’s Deschutes County, the local Republican Party chose Scott Stuart, “a member of the county chapter of #People’s #Rights, a nationwide network of #militia groups and #anti-#government activists founded by conservative firebrand #Ammon #Bundy.”
