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Anonymous ID: 649472 Oct. 18, 2020, 9:47 p.m. No.11146966   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6991 >>7145 >>7394 >>7526

The 31-day campaign against QAnon

 

What happened when a ‘nice guy’ named Kevin Van Ausdal ran for Congress against a candidate known for espousing conspiracy theories

 

There was a time when Kevin Van Ausdal had not yet been called a “loser” and “a disgrace” and hustled out of Georgia. He had not yet punched a wall, or been labeled a “communist,” or a person “who’d probably cry like a baby if you put a gun in his face.” He did not yet know who was going to be the Republican nominee for Congress in his conservative district in northwestern Georgia: the well-known local neurosurgeon, or the woman he knew vaguely as a person who had openly promoted conspiracies including something about a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles.

 

He waited for a response. He and his wife had been having marital problems for a while, and the campaign wasn’t making anything better. When she did not write back, he texted again.

 

“F—ing crazy ass white supremacist terrorist support her. She is radicalizing them and I am supposed to call her out and become her enemy.”

 

“Omg really,” his wife texted back.

 

“I am not joking” he texted back. “Wtf,” she texted. “I am f—ing breaking down,” he texted back, not that anyone on the campaign team knew any of that was happening.

 

“Jesus Christ,” Michael said as another day began.

 

He had just seen Greene’s latest Facebook post, this one showing her in sunglasses and holding an AR-15 rifle next to a photo of three of the four Democratic congresswomen known as “The Squad,” titled “Squad’s Worst Nightmare.”

 

“We need strong conservative Christians to go on the offense against these socialists who want to rip our country apart,” her post read, and now, as Pelosi was calling on House Republicans to condemn Greene and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was calling the post a “violent provocation,” Michael was on a video call with Kevin and the team.

 

“I have Roll Call, NPR, Politico, CNN, NBC, New York Magazine, Slate, the Hill, Vox, BuzzFeed, not to mention a whole bunch of party people, calling,” Michael said.

 

The time for rehearsing was over. The angry statement about Greene had to post immediately, he said.

 

“I haven’t taken a shower,” Kevin said. “I was going to go to the post office and . . .”

 

“Kevin. Take a moment. Breathe. Center yourself,” Michael said.

 

http://thewashingtonpost.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

 

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