For the grifter selling the 'pedophile' panic, no low is too low

[Big Bend Texas]

‘One of the grossest and yet most successful grifters in the culture wars — who is now pushing the right toward casually labeling everyone in sight a pedophile — is also one of the most cynically direct about his intentions.

From the heart of deep blue Western Washington, Christopher Rufo has risen to national prominence as a flaming red modern Joe McCarthy, inventing newfangled scares to rile the gullible and capitalize on white grievance and bigotry.

Rufo, who cut his political teeth in Seattle by attacking efforts to house homeless people as both a money-making scheme and a form of "ruinous compassion," moved on to invent the critical race theory freakout, practically from whole cloth.

He's now helping to push the repulsive "groomer" narrative that is racing feverishly through the hard right, a triumph of QAnon-like conspiracy in which schoolteachers, Disney, Democrats, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Mitt Romney are all blithely tarred as pedophiles or pedophile abettors.

It's a way of digging a channel for anti-gay and anti-trans hatred into the discourse, cloaking the wolf of bigotry in the sheep's clothing of "protecting children."’

Shawn Vestal: For the grifter selling the 'pedophile' panic, no low is too low

Apr. 17—One of the grossest and yet most successful grifters in the culture wars — who is now pushing the right toward casually labeling everyone in sight a pedophile — is also one of the most cynically direct about his intentions. From the heart of deep blue Western Washington, Christopher Rufo...

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No one is ‘grooming’ children to be gay or transgender – the notion is a lie.

Then something must have gotten into the food/water supply because none of this was even an issue 20 years ago.