Democrats benefit as Michigan GOP is consumed by infighting and conspiracy theories

Lapointe: Democrats benefit as Michigan GOP is consumed by infighting and conspiracy theories
On the Midwest’s progressive ‘Tea Party in reverse’

By Joe Lapointe on Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 6:00 am


(Detroit Metro Times) With 16 Michigan Republicans now indicted for multiple felonies in a scam to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 Presidential election, GOP activists were aggressively defensive last week in the Donald Trump fortress of Macomb County.

Unlike at other Republican gatherings this year in the Great Lakes State, they weren’t fighting among themselves. Instead, they met on a balmy night in their shopping plaza storefront headquarters in Clinton Township to denounce their common enemies.

“No crime has been committed,” claimed Mark Forton, the 76-year-old county chairman. “The crime is this woman who is a socialist Democrat. And they are out to destroy the opposition. There are 16 people who are being unjustly, not just prosecuted, but persecuted.”

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In a recent profile of Whitmer in the New Yorker, author Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes: “What’s happening in the Midwest, one of Whitmer’s advisers told me, is a ‘Tea Party in reverse.’”

As a result, Michigan’s female leaders have become high-profile party representatives for progressive causes. After Nessel indicted the fake electors, it was not Nessel who explained it on “The Last Word” with Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC. .............(more)

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