This story is about Idaho, but it really could have been written anywhere

An editorial from The Idaho Statesman, via Yahoo! News -

In convention dominated by fear, control and cruelty, extremists take over Idaho GOP

The most extreme elements of the Republican Party are fully in control after its convention in Twin Falls.

The new chair — outgoing Rep. Dorothy Moon, who lost her bid for secretary of state in May — is closely tied to the John Birch Society, which was famously kicked out of the conservative movement in the 1950s, when it asserted that former general and President Dwight Eisenhower was a communist. And this is not some tangential connection: Moon’s husband, Darr, is on the John Birch Society’s national council.

Moon built her entire campaign for secretary of state on a Bircher-style conspiracy theory — Donald Trump’s Big Lie — so you can expect that she will become that lie’s chief public expositor for the next several years. That Bircherite paranoia was also on display with continued efforts to make it easier to disqualify voters in the Republican primaries.

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That cruelty was on vivid display at the Twin Falls convention. Someone — and certainly many people in the party know who did this, but they are either cowards or complicit, so the person responsible has not been identified — made up flyers for an event hosted for Tom Luna supporters and distributed them at a local homeless shelter.

Luna, the outgoing chair, showed grace and fed those who came hungry. But the cruelty of sending people to an event where they were not expected, of using them as pawns in a silly stunt, demonstrates a total lack of moral substance.

It was utterly shameful.

There's more, which I would quote here, but too many in the AZGOP would consider this to be a "how to" post.

Of course, those same people consider the novel "Lord of the Flies" to be an expression of their ideals.

When they expand their reading lists beyond "Mein Kampf" and anything written by Ayn Rand.