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Authoritarian Trumpism got a little more zany on Thursday when Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy known for his antics trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election, announced he was running for governor of Minnesota. If he wins the GOP primary, he’ll face off against Gov. Tim Walz.

This was an exciting development for anyone who enjoys how the movement to destabilize American democracy has become populated by the world’s least serious people. Kash Patel, a certified conspiracy theory kook , now runs the FBI with the lib-owning podcaster Dan Bongino by his side; Laura Loomer, a fan of declaring major events to be false flags, has the president’s ear ; and Ro

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