David Armstrong
Welcome to what is the 1047th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling David Armstrong, who was first elected to District 75 of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 2020, after getting to run for office in the GOP Primary unopposed, and there are some decidedly disturbing things about that.
You see, prior to his being elected, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel noted that in the wake of the shooting at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Armstrong was vocal in his support of the Confederate flag, because Wisconsin is clearly on the side of the Mason-Dixon line where that would even make sense. But Armstrong went all the way to his hilt in his online rants about the removal of the Confederate flag, posting videos featuring outright racist lies being spread by David Duke. Even when Armstrong wasn’t linking to quotes from one of the most notorious white supremacists and Klansmen in modern history, his own ugly, bigoted opinions were on display when he was adding comments around things he linked to like, “Slavery: Blacks dirtiest secrets exposed… Apologies are due to who from whom?”
David Armstrong also spent the build-up to the 2020 election liking and forwarding videos propagating the Qanon conspiracy theory, because of course someone who likes alternate history where slavery was the fault of the people being kept as slaves would also believe that insane pile of dreck. And while he deleted all of his comments from 2015 regarding slavery and the Confederate flag, on Qanon, he dug in, saying:
Yes, he touted that conspiracy theories like Q are good because it’s hard to prove a negative.
Regrettably, this virulently racist old coot was elected anyway, and he has, perhaps not coincidentally gone on to sponsor legislation to try to prevent schoolteachers from teaching “anti-racism and anti-sexism instructions and training”, and instead, sponsor legislation that focuses on teaching children completely useless and obsolete things, like cursive.
Hopefully he get bounced in a primary in 2022, but we don’t want to give the Wisconsin GOP credit to think they’d bother showing a dedicated white nationalist the door.