Many county level Republican Party organizations across the country have gone off the deep end in the Trump era. This is not a great sign of where the party might be heading. https://twitter.com/deschutesdems/status/1328528698161524737
Story about another Oregon county’s GOP head. https://twitter.com/sethcotlar/status/1312142169587683328
The GOP in the county I grew up in in central PA makes Fox News seem like a sober, thoughtful source of information. https://twitter.com/sethcotlar/status/1178437657778483200
The GOP head in the county where I work has expressed support for the 3% “militia” (a domestic terror group) and the John Birch Society. https://twitter.com/sethcotlar/status/1275828259716870144
Hopewell County, VA GOP. https://twitter.com/sethcotlar/status/1229487763747041280
Yavapai County, AZ GOP. https://twitter.com/sethcotlar/status/1151506667646750721
In 2018 a white nationalist who helped organize the Charlottesville Nazi rally won a spot as a GOP county precinct captain in Eastern Washington. https://mynorthwest.com/1011333/james-allsup-washington-gop-white-nationalist/?
I could go on, but you get the point. This has been building for decades. Trump didn’t cause this. Rather, Trump + Facebook has accelerated an already existing problem.