Flat-Earth Governance

How MAGA loyalists are hijacking local government to wage national culture war from ICE proclamations to election fraud theater.

Rod Taylor was never qualified to be a county commissioner. That didn’t stop him from running, and it didn’t stop him from winning. Like many pro-Trump candidates across the country, Taylor didn’t seek office to govern. He ran to impose a worldview. In Coos County, that’s meant pushing election conspiracies, platforming discredited ideologues, and now, …