I recognize that the very online term "derp" may not track for everyone. But how could I NOT put that pun/joke in the title once it came to me?
And also, I think I've found the ex-Communist turned Christian Patriot who provided the one piece of evidence "proving" that fluoride was a Commie bioweapon. He produced an affidavit in 1957 that went viral...but it was all an attention seeking lie. His name was Kenneth Goff, a real sweetie.
A lot of people a weird about money and sometimes for very good reasons...but Christian Nationalist weirdness about money almost always goes back to some strange things they believe about the Jews and the Federal Reserve. Walter Huss's weirdness led him to squirrel away $7500 in cash that vanished until I found it buried in his archive, 15 years after he'd passed away.
Till the one day when the kraken met this fellow
And they knew that they barely had a hunch,
But they'd meet at Four Seasons landscaping,
That's the way they all became the Rudy Bunch.
The chair of the Marion County GOP is a woodworker and he has made (and sells) a literal graven image of his pastor, which that pastor uses as his FB profile pic. I don't even know where to start unpacking that.
FWIW, that former Nazi attends the local far right/Christian Nationalist church here in Salem that has ties to a wide range of far right preachers like Sean Feucht and Artur Pawlowski, as well as Bundy-linked lawyer KrisAnne Hall.
Once this person got connected up with the world of far right paramilitary organizations in Arizona, he began rubbing shoulders with all sorts of like-minded people in Arizona--ad execs, insurance salesmen, used car dealers, gun shop owners, physics majors making A-bombs etc.
I believe this was the person who ultimately was the source for this story. Note how he was recruited by the head of the College Republicans to join a right wing paramilitary organization that was training to overthrow the US Gov't which had become Communist (according to them)
This is the passage that most stood out to me. Can you imagine a conservative Republican media outlet today publishing an 8-part series on the anti-democratic threat posed by far right extremists?
In 1968, the Arizona Republic ran an incredible, 8-part series on the danger of far right extremism in Arizona. This was notable because that newspaper was a VERY CONSERVATIVE paper. The first Democrat it ever endorsed was Hillary in 2016.
