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Insurrectionist and MAGA wanna-be rapper J.R. Majewski surprised the GOP establishment when he won the Republican primary in OH-09.
Despite the NRCC and Majewski trying to hide his extreme conspiracy theorist history to make him seem more electable, voters are seeing the dangerous extremist that he is.
The Guardian reported on the plethora of extremist comments Majewski has made, highlighting his clear support of QAnon conspiracy myths, his eager participation in the violent January 6 insurrection, and his calls for Ohio and other 2020 Republican states to secede from the country.
Read more from The Guardian below:
The Guardian: ‘Ultra-Maga’: the Trump-backed Ohio Republican candidate who attacked the Capitol
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Left unsaid was Majewski’s extremist recent history – as a proponent of the QAnon conspiracy myth, a participant in the January 6 insurrection, and someone who has called for Republican states to secede from the United States.
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If Majewski wins, he would become the third Republican representative to have supported QAnon, but away from that he would join a party just as beholden to the myth that the 2020 election was stolen.
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That big lie, which has proved essential to winning the support of Trump, has formed a central part of Majewski’s campaign.
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…it is hard to know exactly what Majewski wants to achieve. The “issues” section of his campaign website is specific-lite, focusing instead on stock phrases including “I will support our troops” and straw man discussion of “communist propaganda”.
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Majewski might be vague about his goals, but his recent past makes clear that he will not be the most sober of representatives.
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In 2021 he recorded a rap song, with two fellow Trump supporters, called Let’s Go Brandon (an anti-Biden catchphrase), and before that Majewski rose to fame, of a sort, during the Trump-Biden presidential campaign, when he painted a gigantic Trump 2020 sign on his lawn.
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Trump was perhaps also impressed by Majewski’s presence at the US Capitol on January 6 – in fact, Majewski claimed that he had raised $20,000 to bring 30 Trump supporters to DC.
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“I wanted nothing more than to go in that building,” Majewski said in a video a few days after what became an unprecedented attack on the seat of American democracy.
- For now, the more revealing aspects of Majewski’s political attitudes have come from social media snippets like these. He has gone to pains to delete as November approaches, and as he attempts to pitch himself to the electorate of Ohio, but plenty of his more extreme opinions remain visible on the internet.
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