{"id":35188,"date":"2018-12-29T13:09:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T21:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35188"},"modified":"2018-12-29T13:09:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T21:09:03","slug":"republicans-on-parade-12-29-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/29\/republicans-on-parade-12-29-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade – 12\/29\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the one hundred forty-sixth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. The winner is Republican Tea Party activist and conspiracy theorist, Gini Thomas. She is so honored for using the unjustly elevated office of her pervert husband so commit TEAbuggery and spread vile Republican conspiracy theories.<\/font><\/p>\n

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What is going on with Ginni Thomas?<\/p>\n

She looks and sounds like the Washington wife of yore, with the pearl earrings, the Reagan-red cocktail attire, the sunglasses tiara\u2019d atop her blond bob. At the holidays, she lays wreaths at Arlington and sings carols around the piano with her be-sweatered husband, Clarence, who happens to be the longest-serving justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Memorial Day means a backyard barbecue with star-spangled tablecloths and a sheet cake that reads \u201cGod Bless America!\u201d<\/p>\n

But meanwhile, on Facebook, she\u2019s behaving like your slightly paranoid neighbor who stockpiles bullets and astronaut food.<\/p>\n

This month, Ginni Thomas shared a Facebook post [TEAbuggery delinked<\/em>] that bizarrely described California as a war zone, with illegal immigrants scaling walls and carjacking U.S. citizens. Last month, she shared a post [TEAbuggery delinked<\/em>] alleging that Democrats committed voter fraud in four midterm races. (Which ones? How? She didn\u2019t say.) Then there was the post in August (since deleted<\/a>) proclaiming that teenage survivors of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting are \u201cdangerous to the survival of our nation\u201d because of their gun-control activism. And the post in February [TEAbuggery delinked<\/em>] that harangued Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for supposedly wiretapping Donald Trump \u2014 a baseless accusation indulged in only by conspiracy theorists.<\/p>\n

Does it matter that the spouse of a Supreme Court justice is sharing such nakedly partisan, erroneous propaganda? Or have we hit the point at which this kind of rhetoric has been so normalized that, well, why wouldn\u2019t a prominent party activist be doing this?<\/p>\n

It hardly seems to have hurt her status in Washington\u2019s elite Republican circles, where Thomas is admired by some as a conservative leader, a station she worked decades to achieve….<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I can’t believe that I’ve never given this woman a parade before.  Here’s an article I wrote about Gini Thomas<\/a> 8 1\/2 years ago.<\/font><\/p>\n

Here’s a video from CNN<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n