(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: David Armstrong- 2022 Update [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2022-11-27 Wisconsin GOP state legislator and bigoted conspiracy theorist David Armstrong, who just won re-election on account of getting to run unopposed. On this date one year ago, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” first profiled David Armstrong, who was first elected to District 75 of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 2020, after getting to run for office in the GOP Primary unopposed, and there are some decidedly disturbing things about that. You see, prior to his being elected, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel noted that in the wake of the shooting at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Armstrong was vocal in his support of the Confederate flag, because Wisconsin is clearly on the side of the Mason-Dixon line where that would even make sense. But Armstrong went all the way to his hilt in his online rants about the removal of the Confederate flag, posting videos featuring outright racist lies being spread by David Duke. Even when Armstrong wasn’t linking to quotes from one of the most notorious white supremacists and Klansmen in modern history, his own ugly, bigoted opinions were on display when he was adding comments around things he linked to like, “Slavery: Blacks dirtiest secrets exposed… Apologies are due to who from whom?” David Armstrong also spent the build-up to the 2020 election liking and forwarding videos propagating the Qanon conspiracy theory, because of course someone who likes alternate history where slavery was the fault of the people being kept as slaves would also believe that insane pile of dreck. And while he deleted all of his comments from 2015 regarding slavery and the Confederate flag, on Qanon, he dug in, saying: Yes, he touted that conspiracy theories like Q are good because it’s hard to prove a negative. Regrettably, this virulently racist old coot was elected anyway, and he has, perhaps not coincidentally gone on to sponsor legislation to try to prevent schoolteachers from teaching “anti-racism and anti-sexism instructions and training”, and instead, sponsor legislation that focuses on teaching children completely useless and obsolete things, like cursive. This white nationalist piece of garbage won re-election in 2022 primarily because he was allowed to run for re-election completely opposed in the primary or general election. One Year Ago, November 27th, 2021: David Armstrong (WI)… Original Profile Two Years Ago, November 27th, 2020: Reba Sherrill (FL) Three Years Ago, November 27th, 2019: Duncan Hunter (CA)… 2019 Update Four Years Ago, November 27th, 2018: Duncan Hunter (CA)… 2018 Update Five Years Ago, November 27th, 2017: Duncan Hunter (CA)… 2017 Update Six Years Ago, November 27th, 2016: Duncan Hunter (CA)… 2016 Update Seven Years Ago, November 27th, 2015: Duncan Hunter (CA)… 2015 Update Eight Years Ago, November 27th, 2014: Duncan Hunter (CA)… Original Profile [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/27/2138588/-Fanatical-Republican-Extremist-of-the-Day-David-Armstrong-2022-Update Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/