Laura Loomer just compared herself to one of the most feared political figures in U.S. history for the role she has carved out in President Donald Trump’s world, purging MAGA’s ranks of the unfaithful and excoriating the movement’s enemies.

“I think people now realize he wasn’t as crazy as they thought he was,” the far-right conspiracy theorist said of anti-communist Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy in a New York magazine interview published Monday.

“He was one of the most underrated and under-appreciated political figures in history,” she went on. “He was trying to warn us about the rot and the infestation in our government and within our educational institutions. People acted like he was un-American for simply trying to protect America. Everything he said turned out to be true.”

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