The Republican Party’s radical right flank is making inroads among voters and winning key primaries east of the Mississippi. But out West, among the five states that held their 2022 primary elections on May 17, a string of GOP candidates for office who deny the 2020’s presidential election results a
Idaho is one of the top five reddest states in America for now. The majority of its citizens are rock-ribbed conservatives, pro-life, pro-law-and-order, and devoutly Christian. Voters have chosen Republican presidential candidates every year there since 1952 (with the exception of 1964). But while the mainstream perception might be that Idaho is immune to the kind of blue-wave transformations we’ve suffered in California, Washington state, and Colorado, on-the-ground reality is shockingly divergent. On a recent trip to Boise, I learned from outspoken GOP Lt. Gov. Janice McEachin that educators overseeing Idaho schoolchildren and cops sworn to serve and protect all citizens are promoting