The Terrible Human Beings of the Republican Senate Caucus
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There’s so many. But I have a particular reason to talk about Mike Lee’s scumbaggery. This is the self-regard of Mormons as being “nice people.” This isn’t entirely false, as far as it goes. But whereas Utah did not used to be a right-wing fever swamp and had liberal Democrats in the Senate as late as the 1970s, it sure has gone completely off the maps of total insanity. I don’t want to hear a single thing about Mormons being fundamentally good and nice people until they evict Mike Lee and his vile evil from the Senate.
Republican Sen. Mike Lee is facing criticism over his social media posts about the assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband — with one Democratic senator calling the posts “reprehensible.”
On Sunday night — a day after a masked gunman disguised as a police officer shot and killed Democratic State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark at their Minnesota home — the Utah Republican made posts referencing the attack and featuring images of Vance Boelter, the suspect in the shooting.
The first post was captioned “This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way” and the second says “Nightmare on Waltz street,” seemingly blaming Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for the shootings — which the governor called an “act of targeted political violence.” The posts have now been deleted from his account.
This is a level of scumbaggery beyond even Ted Cruz or Tom Cotton. This is absolutely reprehensible behavior. Utah owns this. I feel bad for the people of Salt Lake City, who hate this guy. But the rest of the state, i.e., the hard-core Mormon belt? They love Mike Lee. This is a sick pathology.