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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Mike Detmer- 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-05-27

On this date in 2020, and 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Mike Detmer, a 2020 candidate for Michigan’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, one of five Republicans in the GOP Primary for that seat who were vying for the right to take on Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin. While we have concerns that Detmer a former mortgage banker, he has hung out with Michigan’s “guns rights activists” where they’ve openly talked about creating a “Second Amendment sanctuary”, as if guns in the United States were an endangered species…



We’re more concerned about how Mike Detmer has been hanging out with the Proud Boys, and is so comfortable with this group of white nationalists and domestic terrorists that he took a selfie with them. When called out for goofing around with a hate group, Detmer went on to compliment the organization, and pretend as if they weren’t a group of neo-fascists committing violence across the country, writing that the group "is about protecting our freedoms."



Detmer than listed the tenets of the Proud Boys, which include defending the First and Second amendments… but missed the parts where they promote Western chauvinism, closing U.S. borders to immigrants, anti-racial guilt and "venerating the housewife." (To say nothing of their future hobby, attempting a violent coup attempt to be carried out on the Capitol in January 2021 to stop the certification of the electoral vote count.) Detmer then gave an interview where he claimed that the Proud Boys have been wrongly labeled as a racist hate group. He posted their tenets "to provide facts, so people could put this group into context" while claiming he hadn’t “seen anything to suggest that they're a white-supremacist hate group”. Detmer lost the GOP Primary for that seat in Congress by only 6,000 votes.



And, we were hoping Mike Detmer would just go away… but no, he was back in 2022, and after briefly running for that seat in MI-8 again… he instead turned around to run for District 22 of the Michigan State Senate, with the GOP primary coming up for it in August. Which is not to say he’s dialed back his rhetoric of supporting the Big Lie, or domestic terrorism as relates to elections, given that he told his supporters some advice about coming to the polls in 2022 packing heat:

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