By Baxter
When our Congresswoman — who, sadly, according to the newly redrawn New York map, will likely remain our Congresswoman — agreed to replace Liz Cheney in the House GOP leadership, she probably had visions of greatness dancing in her head.
Because make no mistake, Elise Stefanik is nothing if not ambitious. So despite having run in 2014 as a work-across-the-aisle, "reasonable" Republican, just a few years later she decided to embrace the Trumpy crazy. What a whirlwind she's reaping today.
With 10 innocent, mostly Black people dead in Buffalo at the hands of a shooter who wrote the n-word on his AR-15, and who apparently plagiarized most of the Christchurch killer's manifesto in writing his own, Stefanik, Tucker Carlson and the other GOP haters have suddenly had their promotion of the "Great Replacement Theory" plastered all over the media and the interwebs. Everywhere we look today, our member of Congress is the poster child for hate and intolerance.
Lincoln Project founder Steve Schmidt has been pounding her relentlessly, and his latest screed is too powerful not to quote:
"Elise Stefanik decided to run on Replacement. She put it in her ads. She did it to prove her bonafides and [to] advance. The people of upstate New York took a chance on the local girl done good. The Harvard-educated Stefanik ran as a bridge builder, and yielded to insanity. She let it wash over her. She accepted it. She fueled it until it fully revealed who she was all along. She was Elizabeth Holmes: a striving, preening, unctuous sociopath trying to take as much as she could.
"Did Elise Stefanik pull the trigger? NO. She loaded the gun, though. She loaded it with hate and venom. She helped make the war real. [The Buffalo shooter] took action after her incitements chronologically. They believe the same things. They do. Look at the words. Look at her ads. Look at his manifesto. That’s real life. It’s deadly, violent and dangerous.
"It’s more so because Elise Stefanik, the gentle sociopath and fascist, was given the honor of trust by the voters. What a mistake that was. What a disgrace she turned out to be."
We agree. And Stefanik will never be able to come back from this. She will forever be associated with murderous white supremacy and anti-Semitism. She will probably always be a favorite of the Trumpsters. But as a winning national candidate? No. We cats HISS.
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