There’s already loads of proof that Mr. Cox is unfit to guide the state. Gov. Larry Hogan, a fellow Republican, has referred to as him a “QAnon whack job,” a “nut” and, this month, mentally unstable. In April, Mr. Cox was a speaker at a rally populated by QAnon crackpots.
He just lately termed the FBI’s search of former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago house “nothing wanting communist stasi police state techniques.”
This isn’t the primary time Mr. Cox has seemingly tried to erase proof of his radical views; he deleted a tweet, posted as police have been being overrun in the course of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, calling then-Vice President Mike Pence a “traitor” for refusing to dam certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
Gab, based in 2016, is known principally as one of the distinguished on-line boards for hate speech so vile that it’s banned on Fb, Twitter, Reddit and elsewhere. The sources of its notoriety are plentiful; amongst different lowlights, Gab is the place mass assassin Robert Bowers posted his antisemitic rants earlier than he barged right into a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 worshipers in 2018. Neo-Nazi screeds are common Gab fodder.
Of all of the social media boards on which to publish 1,000 instances, Mr. Cox selected Gab. Why — and what did he need to say earlier than he had the report erased? Marylanders deserve solutions. Sadly, Mr. Cox usually eschews questions from the mainstream media, preferring to talk primarily to his Republican base.
As for what he does imagine, or which insurance policies he would pursue as governor, that can also be shrouded in thriller. His web site enumerates a number of positions: he would “finish unconstitutional masks, vaccine and well being mandates”; “finish the divisive CRT [critical race theory] and make our faculties free from political or gender ideological indoctrination”; and empower regulation enforcement “to take away prison unlawful aliens from our communities.” He “guarantees to guard all life from conception” and defend gun rights.
As for the urgent points most Marylanders care about — enhancing transportation infrastructure, safeguarding the Chesapeake Bay, driving down Baltimore’s murder fee, guaranteeing high quality faculties with enough funding — he’s silent. Marylanders deserve a more sensible choice and extra transparency than Mr. Cox seems keen to offer.
