b҉this guy Ben West, on top of doing bog standard corruption, is also a far-right dumbass who’s very tight with #ProudBoys and other PNW fascist orgs
btw the vice chair of the Clackamas County Republicans (where Ben West is commissioner) is also the leader of the local #ProudBoys chapter. All these chuds operate the Oregon City / Gladstone areas like a little Klavern.
Despite setbacks, far-right extremists are winning positions in mainstream Northwest politics
Militia groups, Christian nationalists, anti-vaccine activists and other conspiracy theorists in the Pacific Northwest have all started working together and are forging new connections with the formal political class.