And it’s worth asking whether there is any point in giving an entry to Darryl Glenn, insofar as there has been some years since we’ve heard from him … but then, you never know what kind of shit the MAGA administration is able and willing to unearth, so perhaps a brief note is in order (he did reappear and try to run for mayor of Colorado Springs in 2022 on a platform of opposing mask and vaccine mandates). Glenn was an obscure county commissioner in Colorado who won a five-way Republican primary in 2016 and went on to lose by a vast margin in the general election because he was an insane moron and voters recognized him as such (those were the days). Glenn was for instance a climate change denialist, radically anti-gay, fanatically devoted to Trump until it seemed inconvenient, and believed that Social Security is like Jim Crow because people “bow to the government and not to God” – rather milquetoast by today’s standards, in other words.
Diagnosis: A deranged loon by 2016 standards. These days, he’d be viewed as, at worst, a moderate compromise candidate. But we’re sort of trying to refuse to move with the Overton window. Glenn deserves an entry, even if he doesn’t seem to be getting much attention these days.
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