Note: We know personally of one family who was forced to move because of threats and harassment by these sheriffs.
“The Battle Mountain rally also included groups of die-hard Trump voters, the same ones who form his populist base today. The constitutional sheriff movement pulled from many of the same strains that MAGA does – rural resentment, distaste for “woke” cultural issues, attachment to guns, and a sense that Trump has been chosen to overhaul (or overthrow) the government in a way that more closely matches Mack’s vision than that of traditional Republicans. The speakers and attendees presented many of the core ideas that are now part of Trump’s campaign – parental rights and worries about public schools, distrust in federal authorities, concerns that the election had been “rigged”, the Q-anon conspiracy, and, of course, militias and guns.”