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The Tea Party Express just hopped on the Byron Donalds train.

The conservative group endorsed the Naples Republican days out from a hotly contested Republican primary in Floridas 19th Congressional District.

Byron Donalds is precisely the successful businessman and Tea Party leader we need in Washington fighting to drain the swamp and helping President [Donald] Trump advance his conservative agenda, said Tea Party Express Co-Founder Sal Russo.

Billed as the largest Tea Party PAC, organizers stressed a long history with Donalds.

We first met Byron when he spoke at our rally in 2014, and we were impressed by his commitment to Tea Party principles. He will be an effective and principled Congressman for Southwest Florida, Russo said.

Donalds later won election to the Florida Legislature in 2016 and was reelected in 2018. He decided this year to forgo a third term and run for the open Congressional seat.

Long tied to the conservative movement, many Florida leaders within the Tea Party Express network praised Donalds.

Ive gotten to know Byron through the Tea Party movement, which he joined in 2010, and through interaction at local Republican clubs, said Tea Party activist Michael Thompson. As a leader in East Lee County Republican circles, Ive had an opportunity to track Rep. Donalds voting record in the Florida Legislature and have no doubts that he is the proven conservative in this race. He was willing to take on leadership and stand for our Second Amendment Rights when it mattered most.

Thats a reference to Donalds vote against the Parkland bill, something hes used to set himself apart from Dane Eagle, the other state lawmaker in the race.

Republicans also took shots at liberal House members like New Yorks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in their endorsement.

Hes a dynamic speaker and a tough debater, said Tea Party supporter Andrew Sund. He will have AOC and the squad on their heels if they are foolish enough to even think about coming after him in debate. Byron is what the party needs right now.

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Editors note: This is the 16th installment in a serialized history of Charleston to commemorate the citys 350th anniversary.

When the grand Exchange opened at the foot of Broad Street in 1771, locals saw great potential in Charles Towns new centerpiece.

The Palladian-style building was an architectural marvel, locals thought, perhaps even finer than Bostons Faneuil Hall. It would serve as custom house, meeting space, perhaps even a market. But by 1774 it was, at least in part, a tea warehouse.

Of course, the British had made it about tea.

After great outcry from the colonies, Parliament had repealed most of the Townshend Acts but didnt lift the tax on tea and basically gave the East India Company a monopoly on business in the colonies. The intent was to prove Britain had the authority to tax colonists, which was exactly what Christopher Gadsden had feared.

On Dec. 2, 1773, the London sailed into Charles Town harbor carrying a load of the controversial tea. Gadsden quickly dispatched his Liberty Boys into the streets, distributing leaflets that asked locals to attend an important meeting the next day at the Exchange.

If they allowed the tea to land, and the tax on it to be collected, it would set an unfortunate precedent and Gadsden wanted to get the sense of the people, as Walter Fraser Jr. wrote in Charleston! Charleston!

The planters, including Charles Pinckney, and the artisans, represented by Gadsden, favored a boycott on all British goods. But local merchants, including Miles Brewton, set up a local chamber of commerce to oppose the boycott. Profits were at stake. Charles Town was hopelessly divided.

The standoff continued throughout the month, but local attitudes shifted slightly after the incident in Boston. On Dec. 16, colonists there raided an East India ship, tossing more than 300 crates of tea into the citys harbor. Within two weeks, the captain of the London heard rumors that a Charles Town mob, inspired by Bostons tea party, was coming to burn his boat.

Local British officials locked the tea in the basement of the Exchange, and the threat of violence was averted. But the damage to British relations had been done, evident in the Royal Navys blockade of Boston Harbor.

By September 1774, five influential Charles Town residents John Rutledge, Edward Rutledge, Henry Middleton, Thomas Lynch and Gadsden had traveled to Philadelphia as the colonys representatives to the First Continental Congress. Before it was over, Middleton would be appointed its seond president.

The colonies were just as divided as Charles Town. Some wanted independence from Britain while others called for reconciliation. After two months of debate, the delegates agreed to a boycott of all British goods ... unless the king repealed the tax. He didnt.

The Congress also suggested each colony form its own militia, because war was no longer out of the question. The first battles, at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, followed just six months later.

Charles Town received news of the battles on May 8, 1775. Gadsdens Liberty Boys were ready to fight, but as Robert Rosen wrote in A Short History of Charleston, (m)ost of the merchants, planters, and substantial citizens of Charles Town were for strong measures short of war.

That seemed increasingly unlikely. By summers end, rumors in Charles Town held that Carolinas royal governor would arm loyalists to keep the colony in line. So that November, William Henry Drayton the Liberty Boys leader while Gadsden attended the Second Continental Congress scuttled several ships at the harbors mouth to keep the Royal Navy out.

As the crews worked, Draytons ship was fired on by two British warships lurking just offshore. They were, Fraser notes, the first shots of the Revolution in Carolina.

Fear of a pending British bombardment overwhelmed the city, and Charles Town spent months shoring up its defenses. Slaves, who comprised more than half of the citys population of 11,000-plus, did much of the work. Some of them were organized into a makeshift fire department, with orders to extinguish any fire sparked by a surprise attack.

Many residents chose to simply flee, and Charles Town was eerily quiet as the spring of 1776 dawned. Henry Laurens wrote to his son that, I am sitting in a House stripped of its furniture & in danger of being knocked down ... by Cannon Ball.

Laurens and Charles Town would wait several tense months for the coming attack.

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QAnon demonstrators protest during a rally to reopen California. (Sandy Huffaker / AFP via Getty Images)

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican nominee for Georgias 14th congressional district, is a harbinger of her partys post-Trump future. Shes running in a strongly Republican district with an almost certain prospect of going to Congress. She disdains Black Lives Matter and argues that Muslims shouldnt be allowed to serve in government. Shes also an adherent of QAnon, the amorphous conspiracy theory that holds that Donald Trump is battling a secret cabal of Satanic cannibalistic pedophiles who control the Democratic Party, Hollywood, and the American government.Ad Policy

In a 2017 video, Greene said, Theres a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it. For his part, Trump returned Greenes regard. On August 12, the president tweeted, Congratulations to future Republican Star Marjorie Taylor Greene on a big Congressional primary win in Georgia against a very tough and smart opponent. Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives upa real WINNER. Asked about QAnon on Friday, Trump avoided disavowing the conspiracy theory and reiterated his praise of Greene.

This tweet is in keeping with Trumps general approach of aligning himself with the QAnon movement but not explicitly affirming it. As The New York Times notes, Trump has not directly addressed QAnon, but he has conspicuously avoided denouncing it, and has shared dozens of posts from believers on his social media accounts.

A few Republicans, to their credit, have spoken out against Greene and QAnonbut they all are much less well-known than Trump. On the same day as Trumps warm words for Greene, Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois tweeted, Qanon is a fabrication, adding that there is no place in Congress for these conspiracies. Another Republican, Virginia Representative Denver Riggleman, tweeted, QAnon is the mental gonorrhea of conspiracy theories. Its disgusting and you want to get rid of it as fast as possible. MORE FROM Jeet Heer

But if QAnon is gonorrhea, more and more Republicans are getting infected, and party leaders are doing nothing to stop the spread. Kinzinger and Riggleman are lonely voices in their own party. As CNN reports, Top Republicans, including President Donald Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, are embracing their partys nominee for a House seat in Georgia, despite her history of racist and anti-Semitic remarks and promotion of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory. Other Georgia Republicans, notably Senator Kelly Loeffler and Representative Doug Collins, have joined in welcoming Greenes primary victory.

The response of the GOP to Greene echoes the way the party handled Trump in 2016. At first there was some trepidation about Trump, with a few voices denouncing what he was doing to the party. But eventually, Republicans made their peace with Trump when they realized that they had to support him as their standard-bearer or suffer humiliating defeat as a divided party.

The future of the Republican Party very well may be Marjorie Taylor Greene, argues Dan Pfeiffer, former Obama adviser. Greene is one of eleven QAnon supporting Republican congressional nominees on the ballot this fall.Current Issue

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The conservative writer Bill Kristol, although a critic of the Republican Party under Trump, disagrees with this assessment. According to The New York Times, Kristol is skeptical about QAnons influence on the Republican Party. He pointed out that there had always been extreme outliers in both parties of Congress whose influence tended to be diluted by more moderate voices over time.

But even Kristol acknowledged that Trumps embrace could give QAnon a greater reach. If Trump is the president, and hes embracing this, are we so confident that its not the future? Kristol wondered.

QAnon is a byproduct of the Trump era and is likely to be part of his lasting legacy, long outliving his presidency. QAnon is best understood as a myth that helps Trump supporters reconcile themselves to his manifest flaws as a man and political leader. Trump thrives on negative partisanship, which requires that he be seen as preferable to his rivals. Given numerous reports of his sexual predations and corruption, the only way he can be acceptable is if his foes have committed the worst crimes imaginable. The embryonic version of QAnon was Pizzagate, which painted Hillary Clinton as a leader of a child sex ring.

The current version of QAnon took off on social media in 2017 when Trump was enmeshed in the Russiagate investigation. The conspiracy theory emerged on 4chan, a message board that facilitates anonymous posting. Q claimed to be a high-level insider with Q security clearance who had information that the entire Mueller investigation was a false flag operation used by Trump to hide his war against powerful pedophiles. Again, it served a narrative function: Building on the Pizzagate story line, it portrayed Trump as a heroic battler against a deep state conspiracy, thus helping to wave away evidence of actual corruption. Its no accident that prominent Russiagate figures like former national security adviser Michael Flynn and Trump crony Roger Stone have embraced QAnon.

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The current upsurge of QAnon is a response to the Covid-19 pandemic. As NBC news reports, While QAnon bubbled on the fringes of the internet for years, researchers and experts say it has emerged in recent months as a sort of centralized hub for conspiracy and alternative health communities. According to an internal document reported by NBC News this week, Facebook now has more than 1,000 of these QAnon groups, totaling millions of members.

The report goes on to note that social media users who started off in wellness communities, religious groups and new-age groups on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram during the pandemic were then introduced to extremist groups like QAnon, aided by shared beliefs about energy, healing or Godand often by recommendation algorithms.

QAnon has been resilient because its a myth that serves to explain Trumps failures and wretched personal behavior. QAnon has helped recast a sexual predator as a covert fighter against pedophilia and an incompetent response to Covid-19 as a heroic battle against a pro-mask conspiracy.

If we understand QAnon as a conciliatory myth that evolves to excuse the horrific truth about Trump and Trumpism, then it is likely to have a long life after he is defeated. Itll become a Lost Cause myth about how a great man was felled by a sinister conspiracy. Donald Trump Jr. has already shared an Instagram post suggesting that Joe Biden is a pedophile. The presidents son explained the post by saying he was only joking around.

QAnon is not a nonviolent movement. As Media Matters reports:

The QAnon conspiracy theory has been tied to multiple violent incidents and threats of violence, including a man accused of murdering his brother with a sword, a man accused of murdering an alleged crime boss, a man who reportedly threatened to kill YouTube employees, an armed man who blocked the Hoover Dam with an armored vehicle, and even a man who threatened to assassinate Trump, among numerous other incidents.

If Trump loses and QAnon evolves into a narrative about how a conspiracy of pedophiles won, then itll become even more violent than it already is.

QAnon is sometimes treated as if it were analogous to the Tea Party movement or the John Birch Society, a right-wing faction within the GOP coalition. But in fact it is much more violence-prone than those groups. Its closer in spirit to terrorist organizations like the KKK, which had ties to political elites but also instigated extrajudicial violence.

Trump could leave the White House in January of next year, but QAnon will be with us for a long time to come.

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We deserve better than this. America, we deserve better than this. This is the United States of America, the most advanced nation in the whole history of humankind. The United States of America has the most robust economy in the world. Since World War II until now, the United States of America has led the world in scientific advancement. Even so, today the United States of America is leading the world in the number of COVID-19 cases. Let me get this straight, this most advanced nation in the history of the world, leads 188 nations in COVID-19 deaths! Is that bizarre or what?

How can it be that this most advanced nation is the leader in COVID deaths? We have the best science, right? Until now, the United States Center for Disease Control led the world in bringing the deadliest diseases under control. In 2014, the Obama administration took the lead to head off an Ebola outbreak. There were 22,500 cases of Ebola in West Africa, with almost 9000 deaths. Here in America, U. S. medical teams treated 12 Ebola patients, all but two recovered. More than that, the Obama administration actually did a pandemic gaming for the Trump presidency during the transition.

The nearly 6,000,000 cases of COVID-19 along with the more accurate count being over 200,000 deaths are the highest numbers of the infection in the world! As shown by the Obama approach to Ebola, It did not have to be this way. The United States of America is suffering more of this calamity than any other nation on this planet. How can that be in this America?

As Americans we deserve better. We are accustomed to being the best not the worst. When we think of those high standards, it applies to everything we do, whether its sports or the race to the moon. When it comes to freedom and democracy, the United States is the world leader. Yet, here we are dead last when it comes to our existence vis--vis COVID-19.

The major problem when it come to our president and this deadly virus is that President Donald Trump is severely challenged in several ways, intellectually and morally.

Intellectually, the President has labeled himself to be a very stable genius. He deludes himself. Nothing could be further from the truth. Of all of the presidents who preceded him, it would be a stretch to find any of our presidents being less informed than President Donald Trump. On a trip to Pearl Harbor, Chief of Staff General John Kelly reports that the President wanted to know what was the significance of Pearl Harbor? He has elevated and legitimized ignorance.

More recently, he inquired of some of his scientists, whether or not we could inject disinfectant to clean the inside like it does on the outside. His niece, Mary Trump, Ph.D., from her inside the family tell all, informs us that he paid a friend to take exams for him. While the President was an undergraduate student at the prestigious Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, one of his professors reported that Donald Trump was the dumbest student he ever taught. More recently, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has described the President as being a moron.

While these reports provide examples of Trump being intellectually challenged, more directly related to the pandemic we face, Donald Trump is a science-denier. He believes in conspiracy theories. As he says, One day this virus will just fade away. That shows no understanding or respect for how the virus behaves. Because of his ignorance on the subject, he sends mixed messages when it come to policies and practices to combat COVID. The mixed messages have put us all in danger. Clearly, our being number one in cases and deaths are the result of this presidents leadership or lack thereof.

On an interview on CNN, an Indian scholar was asked how is it that the numbers in Asian nations were so much better than ours. Even in India the numbers when it came to cases and deaths, our numbers pale in comparison. New Zealand had no cases, no deaths. Yet, our numbers continue to be outrageous. How could that happen?

The scholar from India said it was simple. Many of the Asian and other developing nations know that to solve their problems, they need government. And to learn how to make government effective, they were trained right here in the United States. They believe in government and they make government work.

What we have here is leadership from a White Nationalist Tea Party that is largely libertarian, funded by libertarians who do not believe in government and an inept president. Between Donald Trumps ignorance of the problem as a science-denier and his party have no commitment to making government work. Consequently, we are the losers in the COVID race. Most of these Tea Party Republicans have signed the Grover Norquist pledge, in which he argues that he wants government so small you can drown it in a bathtub.

Ineptitude and ideology are what we face in this president and we have yet to address the corruption and the threat to steal the election by sabotaging the Post office.

Robert Newby is professor emeritus in the department of sociology, anthropology, and social work at Central Michigan University.

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