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marmar

(78,009 posts)
Wed Feb 17, 2021, 10:34 AM Feb 2021

How a Michigan couple radicalized the state's GOP and emboldened insurrectionists

Part one of an ongoing series on right-wing extremism and the radicalization of the Michigan Republican Party.

(Detroit Metro Times) Two months before Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, an angry mob descended on the basement of the TCF Center in downtown Detroit.

Shouting "Stop the count!" and "Let us in!" they pounded on the windows of a large conference room, where workers were counting absentee ballots for the general election. A prayer circle broke out, and some held signs that read "No Reason for Treason" and "Christians for Trump."

Police scrambled to stop them from getting inside as election workers looked on in fear.

At the center of the chaos were state State Rep. Matt Maddock, R-Milford, and his wife, Michigan Republican Party co-chair Meshawn Maddock — an antagonistic, Trump-loving power couple whose influence is growing as the state GOP shifts further to the right. ............(more)

https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/how-a-michigan-couple-radicalized-the-states-gop-and-emboldened-insurrectionists/Content?oid=26461313#.YC027te-0RM.link














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How a Michigan couple radicalized the state's GOP and emboldened insurrectionists (Original Post) marmar Feb 2021 OP
Maddocks from Milford ay? Tbear Feb 2021 #1
Can we adopt the slogan "Stop the Stupid"? CaptYossarian Feb 2021 #2

Tbear

(507 posts)
1. Maddocks from Milford ay?
Wed Feb 17, 2021, 12:59 PM
Feb 2021

I wonder what church they attend that is helping spread that trump was “Godsent”?
That part of the article describing them jeering at the young adults in the BLM March is pretty disturbing.
Organizing busses for the stopthesteal insurrection may open them up to conspiracy issues. Seems like karma or irony to me.

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