Mark Z. Barabak: Dealing with extremists, some Republican leaders find sorry is the hardest word
Wendy Rogers, who represents a rural slice of Arizona in the state Senate, is a bad piece of business. She not only peddles the fiction that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump, but suggests those who fail to believe that lie and other delusions should be hanged. When she isn't promoting screw-loose conspiracy theories, the Flagstaff Republican pals around with Holocaust ...
by Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times
Mar 05, 2022
3 minutes
Wendy Rogers, who represents a rural slice of Arizona in the state Senate, is a bad piece of business.
She not only peddles the fiction that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump, but suggests those who fail to believe that lie and other delusions should be hanged.
When she isn't promoting screw-loose conspiracy theories, the Flagstaff Republican pals around with Holocaust deniers and cheers for Russia and its strongman, Vladimir Putin.
"A globalist puppet for [financier George] Soros and the Clintons" is how Rogers described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — in a noxious tweet that managed to pair two favorite tropes of right-wingers and antisemites.
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