"One afternoon in 2018, she was crying in a bathroom at the U.S. Capitol after being hustled out of a hearing room, where she had interrupted a meeting of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to warn its members about a conspiracy to steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump. Her dress had ripped in the scuffle, and her underwear was showing."
"As Loomer saw it, civil disobedience was the only tool she had left to save Western civilization from the menaces of immigration, Antifa, feminism, liberalism, Islamic terrorism, the Chinese, wokeness. She had already been kicked off most mainstream social-media platforms for things like "hateful conduct" and being a "dangerous individual." She took to carrying a bullhorn around and contemplated driving her car off a cliff."
Laura Loomer embraced a self-styled role as a prophetic figure and loyalty enforcer, using civil disobedience and confrontational tactics to oppose perceived threats to Western civilization. She targeted immigration, Antifa, feminism, liberalism, Islamic terrorism, China, and "wokeness," and she has been banned from major social platforms for alleged hateful conduct. Loomer ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2020 amid fundraising and platform restrictions, experienced public humiliations and social isolation, and described her activism as both a crusade and a personal descent into an intense, sometimes delusional, sense of shared purpose with Donald Trump.
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