In Michigan, a QAnon-adjacent fired weatherman rebrands as a ‘moderate’ Republican

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I am the alternative because basically, I’m a moderate, I am a centrist,” Bohnak said at his campaign launch event, according to Upper Michigan Source. There was also an oblique reference to vaccines being related to Nazi experiments, as Bohnak opined about how infamous war criminal Josef Mengele “injected poison” into his subjects while claiming that the state’s vaccine mandate was “a violation of the Nuremberg Code of 1947.” These beliefs date back to at least the early Trump era, in 2018, when he also made comments on a political site accusing the Obama family of wanting to bring about a “new world order”. While he’s publicly espoused a desire to go down to Lansing to work with his fellow lawmakers — even Democrats — his Facebook campaign account liked several replies to a post which explicitly endorsed the Upper Peninsula secession movement, a long-defunct effort to turn Michigan’s upper portion into the 51st state: “Superior”. “We need to be the 51st state,” reads one Facebook reply liked by Bohnak’s official campaign account.