Having not only been left untreated but egged on by the chief wingnut of the world, the GOP has become a textbook study in epidemical paranoia and charming self-destruction.
"Driven by Trump’s insistence that Georgia’s elections are indelibly rife with fraud," Politico reports, "conspiratorial MAGA figures are calling for a boycott of the two Senate runoff races, slated for Jan. 5.
"Their reason: The two GOP candidates, Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, are not only insufficiently pro-Trump, they may be complicit in Georgia’s electoral fraud. It doesn’t matter that both candidates are essentially lock-step with Trump, or that there is no evidence of links to electoral malfeasance. On Twitter and its less-restrictive alternative Parler, Trump’s more hardline followers have linked the duo to the president’s favorite — and untrue — voter-fraud theories. Hashtags like #CrookedPerdue and #CrookedKelly are flying around. The two lawmakers’ Parler accounts are brimming with posts accusing them of being secret 'liberal DemoRats.'"
Although, as noted, Perdue is for sure under assault by growing QAnon-MAGA hydrophobia, it seems Loeffler has gotten the worse end of hardcore Trumpeteers' drooling fulminations — in particular from Sidney Powell, so recently a player on the president's legal dream team, "when she started pushing an untrue allegation that Loeffler had somehow conspired with a voting technology company, Dominion Voting Systems, to suppress votes for [Rep. Doug] Collins," Loeffler's even mega-nuttier primary opponent.
QAnon was once to be loathed. Now it is to be loved.