McFeely blog: Alexandria pastor's lies are chilling and dangerous, and nothing less
Words must be taken seriously and at face value because Trump and his cultists are willing to generate violence to get their way
4:25 pm, Jan. 12, 2021
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Pastor Darryl Knappen (Echo Press file photo)
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — We are past the point of dismissing the lies from Donald Trump cultists as being "wacky" or "nuts." The insurrection and attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol last week was proof of that. If we thought the MAGA crowd was only playing a messed-up political word game in service of their Fuhrer, we were wrong.