Trump is saddling the Republican Party with the 'misfit toys' of the far right: conservative

In his daily newsletter, conservative commentator and Bulwark founder Charlie Sykes stated one need only look at the cast of characters who preceded Donald Trump's Saturday night rally in Pleasure, Arizona to see the path that the Republican Party is on as he gave far-right conspiracists a national platform to build their own followings. Noting Trump's "continuing attempts to re-write the history of the January 6 Insurrection," Sykes stated, "You could see the GOP future in the whole show: a rally that featured all the misfit toys embraced by the Once and Future God King." Indeed, Trump’s rally featured the whole pantheon of deplorability; Rep. Andy Biggs and Rep. Paul Gosar were there, along with the state’s batty party chair, Kelli Ward," he continued with an accompanying clip of Ward bizarrely claiming there was election fraud in 2016 but "we defeated their cheating algorithm" and they would do it again in future elections. Add to that, Sykes wrote, is the elevation of Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, "who seems to have a fetish for jailing people she doesn’t like," with the former television news anchor telling the Trump faithful, "I want to lock somebody down, and it's that liar Dr. Fauci and anybody who was involved in that corrupt shady, shoddy election of 2020.