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Trump’s post-presidency absence baffles supporters: ‘A lot of people have felt abandoned’ https://t.co/3AGkOnQFDi

— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 16, 2021

Into that leadership vacuum rushes a new Congressional caucus:

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A new America First Caucus — led by @mtgreenee and @RepGosar — is recruiting people to join based on “Anglo-Saxon political traditions” architectural style that “befits the progeny of European architecture”

Some of the most nativist stuff we’ve seen pic.twitter.com/diPDItUt2V

— Punchbowl News (@PunchbowlNews) April 16, 2021

Yup. "Traditional Anglo-Saxon architecture is what this country cries out for.

all new buildings must respect our anglo-saxon heritage pic.twitter.com/D6fzVe7FPO

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) April 16, 2021

I think what they mean is actually traditional Greco-Roman architecture. Which means Eye-talians and Greeks back when they all diddled boys. (I know, crude reductionism; but this caucus deserves it.)

Back to cavorting druids, death by stoning and dung for dinner. https://t.co/LFGi9I1WyX

— AngloSaxonTraditionsHat (@Popehat) April 16, 2021

Here are some of my favorite “Anglo-Saxon political traditions”

- Missing your own coronation party because you're having a mother/daughter three way
- Kidnapping and marrying nuns
- Killing your cousin/brother/father/uncle
- Carrying a corpse around for decades. For reasons. https://t.co/CI9lEL6aR5

— The British History Podcast (@BritishPodcast) April 16, 2021

'Anglo-Saxon political traditions' also include an unbroken line of monarchy.  Is that one this caucus wants us to cling to?

I am neither Anglo nor Saxon. I am Norman Irish.
And these people are cray cray.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 16, 2021

This is going to be fun.

*(I have to add “nativist” is the polite euphemism for “white supremacist racist xenophobia.”  Why we have to hide from that is a curiosity).