White nationalist Vincent James Foxx had a new video for his nearly 70,000 subscribers on BitChute, one of the few tech platforms that hasn’t banned him. On Feb. 16, he appeared wearing a baseball hat emblazoned with the state’s outline tilted on its side so that it resembled a pistol.

“We are going to take over this state,” Foxx declared. “We have a great large group of people and that group is growing. A true, actual right-wing takeover is happening right now in the state of Idaho. And there’s nothing that these people can do about it. So if you’re a legislator here, either get in line, or get out of the way.”

Foxx, 36, isn’t from Idaho. He only recently moved from California to Post Falls. But in the video, he showed off photos of himself posing with a string of prominent Republican politicians in the state as he explained who he’s supporting in the upcoming primaries, slated for May 17.

He was especially excited about a selfie he’d taken a week prior: It showed him and fellow white nationalist Dave Reilly, a recent Pennsylvania transplant also living in Post Falls, standing alongside Idaho’s lieutenant governor, Janice McGeachin. All three were smiling.

“We’re supporting her,” Foxx said, bragging of his movement’s “deep connections” to McGeachin, whom former President Donald Trump endorsed in the GOP primary race for governor. Foxx then explained how his particular brand of Christian white nationalism is poised to conquer Idaho, then the country.

“The solution is local politics: Amassing power in these pockets of the country until it’s time to unify,” he said. “I’ve only been here for a couple of months and I’m tapped in the way that I am. You can do it too.”

Fascists like Foxx are famous fabulists, experts at exaggerating their influence and success. But Foxx wasn’t just talking shit.

He is one of many far-right activists who have flocked to Idaho in recent years, where a large and growing radical MAGA faction in the state’s Republican Party has openly allied itself with extremists to a shocking extent, even for the Trump era. This faction is accruing more and more power in Boise, the state capitol: Imagine a statehouse full of Marjorie Taylor Greenes and Steve Kings. At the local level, they have seized seats on school boards and county commissions at a fast clip.

They’ve accomplished this, in part, by targeting their opponents with frightening cruelty and harassment, embracing a strategy called “confrontational politics,” which has helped drive more moderate officials across the state to resign or retire.

It is not a secret that many on the hard right want to seize public and democratic institutions in order to dismantle them. Some of the movement’s shining stars are very clear on this point.

A recent Vanity Fair piece, for example, profiled members of the national neoreactionary movement, acolytes of a philosopher named Curtis Yarvin, who is a close ally of billionaire Peter Thiel. This movement, which has buy-in from powerful GOP figures, is explicit about wanting to usher in the end of democracy by purging the current government of its enemies and establishing one-party control — or, put another way, authoritarianism.

J.D. Vance — the venture capitalist and “Hillbilly Elegy” author who recently won the Ohio Republican primary for U.S. Senate — is a follower of Yarvin’s. He positively likened this prospective purge to the deadly “de-Baathification of Iraq.”

“I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,” Vance told Vanity Fair. “I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”

Vance and Trump might look to north Idaho for inspiration.

In March of this year, the Coeur D’Alene/Post Falls Press obtained a shocking recording of a phone call between KCRCC Youth Chair Dan Bell and a local resident in which Bell spelled out a plan to “bum rush” the Kootenai Democrats by recruiting conservatives to pose as liberals and then run for Democratic precinct captain positions. Once elected, they would install Dave Reilly, the white nationalist who attended the Charlottesville rally, as the local Democratic Party chair.

“Long story short, we want to take over the Democrat Party,” Bell said.

Rob Barrans, vice chair of the KCRCC, has claimed neither he nor Regan, the group’s chair, were aware of the plan.

HuffPost has obtained another recording from an August 2021 KCRCC meeting in which Barrans laid out a plan to take over each and every — by his count, 217 — nonpartisan position in the county. Barrans can be heard listing off targets: fire districts, sewer districts, school boards, town councils, water commissions.

“So here’s what I need from you,” Barrans told the group. “If you know a conservative and — I don’t say this in some places, but I’m gonna say it here — if you know of a conservative Christian candidate or someone that has never thought about running for office, they can go to the KootenaiGOP.org website.”

Last year, after a 19-year-old legislative intern accused state Rep. Aaron Von Ehrlinger (FI Score: 93%) of rape, his far-right allies went on the attack. State Rep. Priscilla Giddings (FI Score: 92%) sent a letter to her constituents calling the intern a “honey trap” and the rape allegations a “liberal smear job.” Giddings also shared a link to an article on a far-right website revealing the intern’s name and photo.

“You know that photo everyone is posting? I’m 12 years old in that photo,” the intern later recalled in an Associated Press interview about the “overwhelming” harassment she endured. “I’m not even a teenager in that photo, and they’re sharing it, calling me nasty.”

The intern was made to testify at a House ethics hearing about the rape, where she told her story from behind a screen to protect her identity. As she left the House chamber, she was accosted by activists from Bundy’s People’s Rights network, along with a CBS2 reporter named Emri Moore, all of whom started to film her.

The intern screamed and fell to the ground, curling up into a ball and crying as her lawyers scrambled to protect her. (Moore could be seen hugging the People’s Rights activists after the confrontation. She was stripped of her statehouse press credentials and now works for TPUSA, the college conservative group.)

Von Ehrlinger resigned from the House and was convicted of rape earlier last month. He faces up to life in prison. Giddings is currently running in the GOP primary for lieutenant governor.

I can state with all honesty that if Mitt Romney were the GOP nominee in 2024, I’d strongly consider voting for him. I disagree with much of what he believes on a policy level, but he has proven himself an honorable man who puts the country and constitution before himself. Someone like him might actually pull the majority of republicans back toward reality. He would have to contend with the rightwing media bullshit machine, but a sane republican president would be an enormous good for America and the planet.

Shrill? I guess some could say that… when it comes to fascists and Neo-Nazis I feel no desire to make my words less offensive to them.

Over-the-top? Yeah… if you go back to the origin of the idiom in WWI, I think that is a fair descriptor.

My tone is intentional. I am NOT delusional enough to think these creatures can be swayed with reason, or appeals to their humanity- my goal isn’t to try and convince them of the error of their ways… I did try, early on in 2015 and 2016, to reason with RobVG- and we all know how that went.

I am not trying to sway or rally the libs here… you all already see what is going on… I also know my tone makes you cringe. As for ‘anger and hate’, well, I would quibble on that… I see anger and outrage as two very distinct things. I am slow to anger, but very quick to outrage. Outrage is the only proper response to the circumstances we find ourselves in. As for ‘hate’? Perhaps… in the same way as I ‘hate’ cancer.

So why do I bother? No one is going to be swayed by my words- they will continue being monsters, they will continue destroying what is left of our democracy, they will continue their progression to ever greater atrocities… all while constructing an alternate reality fiction that allows them to do these unspeakable things and still pretend they are good people.

That fiction- it is crucial to them. They desperately NEED it. That fiction is all they have- no matter how absurd it is… They do great evil, and they know it- but they need to at least pretend they are doing it for noble reasons… that they really are good people fighting the good fight.

So, white christian men invent a fictional world where they are the brutally oppressed underclass. They invent a conspiracy theory to justify the evil things they want to do- Elite pedophile liberals are trying to replace them with minorities, surely any atrocity is justified for them to combat that- right?

That they want to commit atrocities, that they WILL commit atrocities is a foregone conclusion- they are monsters, that is just what they do. But they NEED that fiction so they can get maximum enjoyment from the carnage they have been fantasizing about committing. They can cosplay and pretend they are patriotic holy warriors as they engage in the most evil of atrocities.

So I guess that is why I post these ‘rants’… not to convince anyone, but to make sure they never get to forget that we see through their pathetic little fiction- we see them as the vile little monsters they are. We see their Gordian knots of hypocrisy they have tied themselves into. They are worthy only of contempt and disgust.

It won’t stop them from doing what they plan to do, but it will make it less enjoyable. It slightly sours their little fiction.

Is it productive to deconstruct their fiction? Not really… Is it spiteful on my part? Oh hell yes…

But what else is there to do on this long ride to apocalypse?

Appeasing them is only slitting your own throat.
Violence? That is a tool that can only be wielded successfully by the monsters in this situation.
So, at least, we can spoil their fun… And never let them forget that they are, deep down, nothing more than ugly little monsters. All their pretense, their transparent self-serving fictions are pathetic unbelievable fantasies scrawled in crayon.

We could, instead, watch our words and try not to offend them too much as they burn down the world- but why? There is no moral high-ground gained by tipping your executioner, we are under no obligation to help them feel good about the evil they do.

The moral thing to do is make their fiction as painful as possible for them to play out.

You and your fellow ‘conservatives’ stripped off your clothes and rolled around naked in paint, you giggled maniacally about how all that paint was really gonna piss off the libs…

I haven’t painted anyone, I have simply pointed out the damage all that paint has done to our carpets. I warned you repeatedly what all that paint would do to you, and you scoffed and called me delusional. But here we are now, I was right on every count and you are STILL digging paint our of your crack.

A majority of republicans believe at least some of the q-anon nonsense

A majority of republicans believe the big lie that the election was stolen from Trump

I am not painting anyone with a broad brush, I am pointing out the obvious facts. Look at republican leadership- many of them condemned the big lie in the 24 hours after January 6th…. but then they came to the same conclusions I did… that THIS _IS_ THE GOP NOW.
So they now instead condemn the 2 or 3 republicans willing to stand up and say this insanity is wrong, they punished them and slandered them, they called the violent insurrection nothing more than rowdy tourists.

They know as well as I do that this insanity is now all the GOP stands for… They know they will be thrown out of office if they don’t parrot the conspiracy theories and lies… Just this week Stefanik, the Harvard educated rising star of the GOP pushed Q-anon BS and the white supremacist ‘great replacement’ libel in the wake of the murders of 10 people.

You may not realize it, but you are the only one out of the loop- WE see it and the republican leadership sees it… Republican propaganda networks see it… this is all the republican party is- you don’t have to take MY word for it. The GOP has made it their goddamn platform.

ANYONE that votes republican is knowingly voting to give these delusional traitors more power. ANYONE that votes republican is complicit in the overthrow of our democracy.

There were some conservatives that kept their integrity- but of the ones that inhabited the zone only SDG was untarnished.

I recognize his integrity, I respect that even though I disagree with him on many issues strongly… I also recognize how exceedingly rare he is. The rest of you rolled around in the paint and gloated at how it pissed off the libs.

They are putting insane conspiracy theorists into positions of power over state elections so that in the NEXT election they can simply overturn the will of the people.

This is not some abstract painting on my part, this is simply looking at the reality that is plainly obvious and pointing out the damage it has done- the fatal wound it has inflicted on our nation.

If that offends you, well- too damn bad… you shouldn’t have rolled around in paint for 5 and a half years. Did you think it would wash off easily? Sorry, but that stain is one that will linger…

The republicans are, en masse- accusing democrats of being pedophile groomers… that isn’t just painting with a broad brush, that is inventing a slanderous fiction that will be used to justify violent extermination- and I don’t hear you uttering a peep about that.

So to hell with your indignation, it is a shallow pretense that you put on to feel better about yourself, about the inexcusable things you supported. You may fool yourself, but I am under NO obligation to play along.

“Think of what the enemies of America have done over the last 14 months .. I love you people madly, but I’d love you more if you went forward and just went berserk on the skulls of the Democrats and the marxists and the communists.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ted-nugent-skulls-democrats-trump-b2079461.html

Video: https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1525807641133555712

So, there’s that.

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-could-retaliate-west-leverage-white-supremacist-group-attacks-analysts-2022-4

On some level, this could be viewed as a conspiracy theory. But I would not be surprised at all.