Rodney Garcia was a member of the Montana House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021, representing the 52nd district, and a good, old-fashioned paranoid redbaiter who – in the fashion of good old-fashioned paranoid redbaiters – had a history of domestic dispute-related convictions and thought that Child Protective Services are “kidnappers” (we haven’t bothered to delve into his prehistory in any detail, but he does undeniably promote a certain stereotype). Still, it was his paranoid delusions about socialists infiltrating the government that was his most definable trait: In 2020, for instance, he described socialists as “enemies of the free state” and claimed that“So actually in the Constitution of the United States (if) they are found guilty of being a socialist member you either go to prison or are shot,” which is a very typically American defense of the authority of the Constitution. “I agree with my Constitution,” insisted Garcia: “That’s what makes us free. We’re not a democracy, we’re a Republic Constitution.” So it goes.
Though asked by The Montana Republican Party to resign, Garcia refused, saying that the “only way I would give my resignation is if God asked me to.” He lost his subsequent bid for the Montana Senate, though we strongly suspect he didn’t explicitly attribute his loss to divine intervention. Garcia is not the kind of guy who puts two and two together.
Diagnosis: Idiot. Hopefully gone.
