The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified

Although Reid came out as gay in the 1990s and has been with his boyfriend, Alonzo Mable, for eight years, he opposes putting same-sex marriage (along with voting and reproductive rights) into the Virginia constitution. He regularly talks about “predatory” trans women, “child physical mutilation” and the rest of MAGA urban legends.

Meanwhile, his whole ticket is troubled. At the top, gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears is well behind his Democratic rival, former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger. Youngkin, for his part, fuels Fox’s outrage over Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general, who recently shared some very disturbing fantasies about committing political violence. And on Tuesday, the Republican Governors Association invested another $1.5 million in the race to strengthen Earle-Sears.

So it’s going to be another crazy month in Virginia. But fear not for John Reid. If he wins, he wins. But if he leaves Richmond for DC as Trumpy, he might get a hero’s welcome there, too. Perverse-fascist solidarity in Trump’s Washington has become the equivalent of the #MeToo movement in reverse. Newcomers Lechy burst onto the scene at Butterworth’s – “me too, guys!” — into the loving arms of the sex-scandal-plagued elite: former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr., Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas, and of course Trump himself.