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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Donald Bolduc- 2023 Update [1]
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Date: 2023-07-04
On this date in 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” first profiled Donald Bolduc, a 2020 candidate for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, and veteran of 36 years with the U.S. Army. Bolduc announced his run for office in June of 2019, and immediately announced his intention to see Roe v. Wade overturned and to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Perhaps the disqualifying moment for Bolduc was when he furthered the racist conspiracy theory that the Chinese intentionally created Covid-19 in a lab and deliberately released it on their own people, and let it spread into the rest of the world. Of course, Bolduc constantly beats the drums of war when it comes to China, seemingly itching to fight them, so his reasons for bringing up the conspiracy are telling.
In May of 2020, as Trump blathered on at daily White House press briefings, spreading misinformation about Covid-19 including asking out light if people could inject themselves with disinfectants, Bolduc was suggesting that it was the MEDIA that should be shut down during crisis situations like pandemics, which holy s***, would be an obvious violation of the freedom of the press covered in the First Amendment.
While that’s the bulk of our reasons why this maniac should have no place in the U.S. Senate, we’ll add that he also had some bizarre revisionist history about how “gridlock, blaming, and finger-pointing” were the cause of the Civil War, and told a misogynist joke about how to prove who loved you more, try locking your wife in the trunk of your car, then your dog, and see which would be happier to see you when you let them out.
Alas, Bolduc finished second in the GOP Primary in 2020, and never got to face off against Senator Jean Shaheen. But he won the GOP Primary in 2022, campaigned for that seat based on Donald Trump’s “Big Lie”, and took a shot at the Senate seat held by Senator Maggie Hassan, and lost to her with 44% of the vote, in what was supposed to be a red wave year for Republicans. He was openly mocked thereafter by Donald Trump publicly, because of course denying Trump lost the 2020 election to court his endorsement didn’t matter to Caramel Caligula.
Donald Bolduc, in turn, has started campaigning for former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, but for the moment, seems like he has given up on any political aspirations. Our country will be better for that.
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