I've seen a couple of those things said (or read), but do consider the sources. What I observe down here is that Fuentes isn't even a consideration. He's not supported nor liked by any of the Republicans I know, and it feels like a bit of "fear mongering" from the Left to elevate him beyond where he really is. Of course, the association with Trump is a concern should Trump be re-elected, but even when Trump was president my perception of all the "white supremacist" charges leveled by the Left was that it was "much ado about very little." Minority employment and income levels under Trump were at far better levels than under his predecessor. An irony.
Similar thought about Lindell, who kind of "blew his wad" with his public hearing on "findings" that were less than that. Lost is some of that is that it WAS shown that in a number of states, election security processes were summarily changed without due legislative process ostensibly as a reaction to COVID. And while that in and of itself is NOT evidence of fraud, I might understand why some inclined to believe such would have thought so. There were a bunch of ways to not fall into that trap, but too many state governments just didn't have the balls to conduct things more normally. And yes, these kinds of late-response changes also include Republican-area stuff like Paulding County in Georgia. Suffice to say that there were FAR more such changes in Democrat-led states, and this has been shown time and time again . . . . and ignored by national media. It doesn't bother me so much because in the end, not actual fraud was ever proven. But it would have been better to do differently. I don't see any Republicans down here who consider Lindell any kind of real leader in the party. He's a public face and a sort of "boogie man" to Democrats who want to have that.
My biggest concern is Trump himself. Were he to win, his narcissism and his inability to EVER admit wrong or change course is in and of itself dangerous. An additional problem is the poor example he sets to younger people in the country by doing things like using middle-school-level pet insult names for people he doesn't like in public. I don't want that even though I recognize it's not as dangerous as some things. I don't really see any significant evidence of "white supremacy" in Republican politics even though that's the common wedge item used by Democrats to attack. What I do see in (only some) Democrats is a tendency toward authoritarianism and even outright Fascism. There, I said it. But I've also lived it, in Venezuela - couched in lots of nice words about "lifting up those in need" and "equity" (while pursuing patently un-equitable solutions such as summarily firing government workers who didn't vote Chavez). Think that cannot happen here? I've seen conversations in college involving some people now prominently placed in national Democrat politics that pushed exactly that line of approach bases on the "inherently morally more correct" line of their beliefs. Poppycock, and that's while admitting that MUCH of the Republican ideas cannot really claim any higher ground. That's why I'm not registered for either party. I am not a Republican no matter how much this post makes it seem. However, I do NOT accept the line that I should vote straight ticket Democrat just because "it's better." Don't really see it that way. I vote for the individual and how I see their personal ethics, ability, and platform. A deeply dominant party for either side seems a ticket toward authoritarianism to me. I'd rather see a lot of political fighting and some deal-making.
