Rightwing Republicans who promote QAnon and conspiracy theories about Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter are increasingly entering politics
When Donald Trump congratulated Laura Loomer, an Islamophobe and conspiracy theorist, on her Republican congressional primary victory this week, it seemed to bring the president’s version of the Republican party full-circle to the start of his rise.
Trump opened his 2016 presidential campaign by claiming Mexico was sending drug dealers and rapists to the US. He followed that up in office by implementing a travel ban on majority Muslim countries, and later refused to condemn white supremacists.
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