Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: John McGuire- 2024 Update

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Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024 Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024 at 1:36:07pm PST

Virginia State Senator John McGuire was at the Capitol on Jan. 6th, was re-elected and now thinks he deserves a seat in U.S. Congress.

On this date in 2023, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, had its first profile of John McGuire, a member of the Virginia State Assembly from District 56 who was first elected to office back in 2017, and was somehow still elected to a third term in office even though he was one of several elected Republicans who were present at the U.S. Capitol for Donald Trump’s domestic terror attack upon the legislative branch of our government on January 6th, 2021. McGuire, of course, claimed he hadn’t heard about any violence happening that day until after he arrived back at home afterwards, but it’s hard to deny he could have missed it, considering he took selfies of himself at the Capitol with Trump’s goon squad (pictured above).

He has twice failed to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, as well, falling short in primaries in his effort to replace Democratic Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger.

McGuire doesn’t seem to have many regrets about having taken part in Donald Trump’s coup attempt, either, given he hosts public screenings of Dinesh D’Souza’s “2000 Mules” to continue to share conspiracy theories about supposed “election fraud” that took place in 2020, and helped fuel the rage against the incoming Biden administration for being “illegitimate”.

While being a sedition-lover is more than enough for us to justify giving the guy a profile on this blog, we’ll also note he was a vocal opponent of the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in Virginia, voted to prohibit mask mandates in schools to help prevent the spread of Covid-19, voted against the repeal of the death penalty, against the repeal of the “gay panic” murder defense (the one that lets someone use homophobia as a license to kill), voted against minimum wage increase, wants all voting materials to only be available in English, and voted against background checks being required on firearms transfers (so a convict that wants a gun can’t just ask a friend to buy them one and then give it to them as a favor).

There just isn’t an issue this guy is on the right side of.John McGuire ran for District 10 of the Virginia State Senate in 2023, and won after being virtually unopposed. This seditious clown is going to challenge equally terrible GOP Congressman Bob Good for his seat in North Carolina's 5th Congressional District in 2024, to boot.

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