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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Matt Schaefer 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-03-24

Texas state legislator Matt Schaefer's latest bill just would empower vigilantes to hunt migrants crossing the border, clearly nothing extreme or white nationalist about that...

In 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of Matt Schaefer, who has served in the Texas House of Representatives now since 2012, and seems to be brain-damaged in a way that makes him focus on certain issues more than Texas Republicans usually do. On firearms, he co-sponsored HB 910, to authorize the concealed carry of handguns, voted for SB 11, to authorize concealed handguns on college campuses, and co-sponsored HB 928, a bill to cut funding to any state law enforcement agency that attempts to enforce federal firearms laws.



Schaefer also has voted to drug test welfare recipients (always a failed conservative policy), voted against equal pay for women, and voted for Texas’ HB 2, one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws ever passed in the United States. That still didn’t sate his appetite for anti-abortion fanaticism, as he proposed an amendment to Texas HB 2510 that would force pregnant women to carry even non-viable fetuses to term after 20 weeks of pregnancy, even if the fetus had a “severe or irreversible abnormality” or it meant the fact that carrying a stillborn child to term could risk them dying of sepsis or other unnecessary suffering. He defended the move by citing scripture, saying that suffering is “part of the human condition, since sin entered the world.”



Oh, and in August of 2014, Schaefer provided a unique solution to our nation’s immigration dilemma… he called for “covert” and “overt” military operations to be carried out in Mexico against crime cartels. Yes, that’s correct… he called for American forces to invade one of our allies.



And, wouldn’t you know it, Matt Schaefer was elected to a fourth term in 2018 on the benefit of running unopposed by a Democrat, and only having Rabbi Neal Katz run against him as an Independent candidate in the general election. Schaefer completely stepped in s*** after a series of mass shootings in Midland and Odessas, Texas in September of 2019, even before Odessa even had an official body count… Schaefer decided to go online on Facebook to provide his thoughts on gun control, and how the real solution was… PRAYING:

“I am NOT going to use the evil acts of a handful of people to diminish the God-given rights of my fellow Texans. Period. None of these so-called gun-control solutions will work to stop a person with evil intent. I say NO to ‘red flag’ pre-crime laws. NO to universal background checks. NO to bans on AR-15s, or high capacity magazines. NO to mandatory gun buybacks. What can we do? YES to praying for victims. YES to praying for protection. YES to praying that God would transform the hearts of people with evil intent. YES to fathers not leaving their wives and children. YES to discipline in the homes. YES to supporting our public schools.

Schaefer was re-elected again in 2020 with 68% of the vote, and got right back to work making sure that any Governor of Texas, now or in the future, wouldn’t even have the power during a public emergency to make orders to keep the populace safe… like say, a mask mandate during a pandemic. He’s spent more time online ranting about that, and coming out hard against no-brainer ideas like Covid-19 relief, or raising the minimum wage, while barely making any mention of conservative ideology causing the Texas power grid to collapse during a February winter storm and people freezing to death in their homes.

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