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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Adam Laxalt- 2023 Update [1]
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Date: 2023-05-02
On this date in 2020, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”profiled Adam Laxalt, the former Attorney General of Nevada from 2015-2019 who was originally elected by about 5,000 votes in 2014, even though his own law firm described him as a “train wreck” and “borderline incompetent” in a performance review only two years earlier. Laxalt had strict anti-gay views, opposed same sex marriage enough to want to ignore the Supreme Court’s Obergefell vs. Hodges ruling, and even argued in 2010 against the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, writing, “Cultural elites notwithstanding, homosexuality and its integration into society are anything but certain right now… It is one thing for the military to ask its members to accept homosexuals, but another for the military to ask its members to accept and live with homosexuality, the homosexual lifestyle.” Laxalt was also quoted as calling the Affordable Care Act “the most flawed piece of major legislation America has ever endured”.
Which, y’know, it might not be perfect but it’s a hell of a lot better than say, the Fugitive Slave Act.
After a turbulent four years in office where he seemed to be proving his old law firm right, including when he sued the Obama administration for daring to try to keep migrant families being detained by ICE together, was opening a witch hunt into Planned Parenthood… and just, y’know, didn’t bother doing background checks on firearm sales as is required of his office (and it’s not like 50 people were killed in a shooting in downtown Las Vegas by a madman or anything…) Laxalt rolled the dice and took a shot at trying to get elected Governor of Nevada in 2018, by which we mean, Sheldon Adelson was hoping to shove enough money into his arse and try to roll him into the governor’s mansion to do his bidding like a good puppet. The problem was, even during the worst period of income inequality in the United States in over a century, Laxalt was arguing against minimum wage increases, he also had his arrest record released from when he drunkenly assaulted a police officer in Virginia back in 1997.
Worse yet for him, Laxalt joined the growing ranks of Republican candidates whose own family members put them on blast for being awful. Whether it’s pointing out he's pretending to be a rural hero when he lived most of his life in New York, his hypocrisy on coming from a family proud of their immigrant history who is opposed to immigrants, or that his own law firm thought Laxalt was disaster, they took out an op-ed to discourage Nevadans from electing him governor. They got their wish, as Adam Laxalt only managed 45% of the vote.
However, Adam Laxalt would not go quietly back into the shadows, re-emerging to run for U.S. Senate in 2022 as the main challenger to Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez-Masto. He's already received the endorsement of Donald Trump, was campaigning with white nationalists from the Trump administration like Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, and has already filed “voter fraud” challenges… TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION HE’S YET TO WIN OR LOSE.
That’s a lot of foresight to declare an election that is seven months away illegitimate, you know? But then again, he also wants to join the sedition caucus, and if elected, promised to relitigate the “election fraud” in the 2020 election that has already been widely proven to be a lie by Donald Trump and lost over three score of court cases, and has told voters in rural Elko that their election was legitimate, but the votes in the far more populated, diverse, but Democratic-leaning Las Vegas are not.
Unfortunately for Adam Laxalt, 2022 was a legitimate election, and he lost to Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez-Masto by about 8,000 votes. We would like to send him our finest “GOOD RIDDANCE” salutes at this time.
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