It is important to remember that Simcox was a media darling a few years back. The second issue of Good Magazine, the last one I’ll ever read, focused on him and the Minutemen vigilante immigrant hunters.

Now he’s being jailed as a pedophile. Everyone is running from him, acting like he’s an outlier. But he isn’t.

You will increasingly see the hatred in their ranks. The low character. The violent husband. The kiddie diddlers. Drug addicts. Gun fetishists. Anti-democratic (and Democratic) violent extremists.

It is a type. And you can’t build a country around it. Not one I want to live in anyway.

And it is on the ballot this fall.