What Lurks Under The Big Tent?

Welcome to Minnesota, where the state’s conservatives, once-hopeful for their chances to unseat a big-government governor are now despairing about their chances next November, stemming from the decapitation of the state Republican Party’s leadership due to ties with an alleged sex trafficker and predator. The facts, as reported in several in-depth tweet threads made by investigative reporter and one-time Minnesota Republican Party, or MNGOP, staffer Rebecca Brannon on Twitter, and confirmed in numerous local and national outlets, are as follows: Anton “Tony” Lazzaro, a big-time donor to the Minnesota Republican Party and personal friend of Carnahan, was arrested on federal charges: five counts of sex trafficking of minors, one count of attempted sex trafficking of a minor, one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors and three counts of obstruction.

On September 8th, an additional civil lawsuit was filed by parents of one of the sixteen-year-olds Lazzaro allegedly preyed upon, repeating similar allegations of child trafficking and accusing Lazarro of being the “ringmaster” of a wide-reaching sex trafficking operation. The next morning, September 9th, an additional civil lawsuit was filed by one Lazzaro’s alleged victims and her father who claim that Lazzaro offered them $1,000 to keep silent. The federal trial is set to begin next month.

While the trial is still ongoing, and the fate of the MNGOP leadership is still being written, it is worth examining the background issues that led to the party’s chair’s removal and the hollowing out of the reputation and personnel of a party which has made a career out of losing. Party Chair Jennifer Carnahan’s obnoxious management style and ineffective politicking should have been obvious to anyone who has seen her performance and the performance of the MNGOP since her election as chair. Carnahan oversaw an eleven-point loss for Republicans in the last race for Minnesota’s governorship and an accompanying failure to gain control of the state House of Representatives, as well as resources wasted propping up a quixotic campaign against Ilhan Omar. But what has brought this mountain of allegations of financial wrongdoing and abuses of employees and staff out to light is ultimately the refusal of Republicans in the state, and across the country, to learn that nothing good comes out of trying to appeal to members of the left’s Bioleninist coalition of misfits and outcasts.

The following example of the whirlwind which the MNGOP has reaped for its latest dalliance with appealing to blacks, browns, and sexual degenerates is an extreme one, but it is nonetheless illustrative of the mindset that causes Republicans to be such perennial losers, both in and out of power.

Further investigations by Brannon and other reporters show that the thirty-year-old Tony Lazzaro was both the campaign manager for Lacey Johnson, the black Republican candidate who tried to unseat Ilhan Omar in 2020, and an occasional guest on Fox News. Not satisfied with a failed campaign against Omar, Lazzaro seems to have joined with several other donors and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire private investigators across three continents in order to get DNA from a drinking straw and a discarded cigarette butt and thereby prove that Ilhan Omar and her ex-husband are siblings. Lazzaro met Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and Mitt Romney, and the local Fox television affiliate estimated that Lazzaro donated $273,000 to MNGOP candidates and affiliated-organizations.

At the same time, Lazzaro was also a porn producer and actor on Porn Hub, with the theme of his videos being “Only Tiny Teens”, some of which contain elements of pedophilia, rape, and incest. Furthermore, a number of these pornographic videos were evidently filmed at Lazzaro’s Minneapolis condo, the same condo which MNGOP sources claim that fundraising events for the party were held. Minneapolis Police Officer Brandon Burger, who works on the state’s human trafficking task force, testified in court last week that Lazzaro was a “sex buyer”, offering cash, designer purses, and makeup in exchange for sexual acts, and his accomplice Gisela Castro Medina, a nineteen-year-old Chapter Chair of the state’s College Republican organization, would recruit their underage victims, with one as young as fifteen, through social media platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat.

In signed a letter last month calling for Carnahan’s resignation, six members of the party’s Executive Council admitted, “The situation would have been damaging with any donor, but Tony was different. Through his relationship with Chair Carnahan he was involved at every level of the MNGOP. He was a donor who helped make payroll when times were tight, he was a campaign consultant, he had a PAC, he was on the board of the fundraising committee known as the Elephant Club, he hosted a podcast with the Chair, and he donated to Republican candidates far and wide.”

Whether for reasons of moral outrage or tactical politicking, there emerged calls for the party and elected officials who received money from Lazzaro to donate the amount to charity and for Carnahan to explain her relationship with the Lazzaro to step down from her post. Now, a month after the news first broke, Carnahan has walked back her initial plea to let “due process” take its course and is now wishing for her friend to spend the rest of his life in prison, but the party has yet to donate any of Lazzaro’s money, numerous party staffers and board members have resigned, and Carnahan herself is being given a hefty severance bonus.

The shockwaves that this disgusting relationship between politicians and predators are still emanating, and it will be a while before their full effects are known, especially with new charges still being filed against Lazzaro and a gubernatorial race in Minnesota next year. The most important question to ask is this: what was it about Lazzaro made the party’s leadership so eager to take his money?

Part of it may have stemmed from his close personal relationship to Carnahan; he was evidently one of the fewer than thirty people at her wedding and supplied an unreported amount of funds to her campaign for the party chair (Carnahan referred to Lazarro as “her sugar daddy” per Brannon’s sources); but Lazzaro’s appeal also relied on the way he presented himself to the party. Despite having a reputation and public-facing social media account that can most charitably be described as “questionable”, Lazzaro was selling just what the MNGOP, a pitiful party which has not won a statewide election in fifteen years, wanted to buy.

Lazzaro was the founder and operator of a political action committee, or PAC, called “Big Tent Republicans”. Its website states that its aims at “broadening the base and appeal of the Republican Party to a new and diverse generation of Americans.” To this end, the PAC has worked to increase the number of homosexuals, blacks, and single women voting for the Republican Party by supporting candidates for elected office from these groups and by tailoring the message of “conservatism” to these groups. In practice, this has meant, as it always has, jettisoning such unfashionable baggage as social conservatism and opposition to wide-spread social engineering projects.

If Lazzaro and his ilk had their way, the Republican Party would be even more of a pale reflection of the Democratic Party than it already is. This was the strategy that the Republican Party recommended after Mitt Romney lost to Barack Obama in 2012. Even after Donald Trump decisively won the presidency in 2016 by rejecting it, his campaign, led by Jared Kushner, followed this strategy of taking your existing voters for granted and chasing after blacks, browns, and homosexuals. This led, as it always does, to a humiliating loss for Trump in 2020 as a significant percentage of his White voters stayed home or flipped to Joe Biden to cost him key states.

The idea of the “Big Tent” resonates with professional campaigners and political junkies who pore over exit polls and demographic data and tailor their politics solely by what will keep them earning another paycheck, but it means abandoning the people whose lives are damaged the most by the anti-social, anti-White, and anti-life policies that our current regime enforces.

If the Republican Party was a real opposition and not a paper tiger, its stalwarts would understand that you do not win by abandoning your most loyal supporters in order to chase after mirages. It is telling that even in the most optimistic predictions of the pundits who push this drivel, they do not foresee winning more than a quarter of the black vote or a majority of the Mestizo vote. Rather, they pin the success of this electoral strategy of playing on the margins upon the backs of the White voters who they will never say a kind word about, whose interests they will never represent, and who they will run away from if given the first opportunity; the case of former U.S. Representative Steve King comes to mind.

For the kingmakers in the Republican Party, the people like the Asian Jennifer Carnahan, Mitch McConnell, and Kevin McCarthy, who will never have to suffer the consequences of their disastrous policies, grifters like Lazzaro are offering them everything that they were looking for. In Minnesota, there was a flamboyant, obvious predator telling the MNGOP that he too was a staunch conservative that loves low taxes, and he was selling a strategy which would allow the Republican Party to still eke out some electoral wins even as it stood by and did nothing as Heritage America was ripped up root and branch and its children raped and abused. Do not be fooled by the wave of denunciations of Lazzaro that have met allegations of his illicit activities, the MNGOP and the Republican leadership in the rest of the country has not given up on this strategy of winning over the people who hate White America, as is obvious by the only absence of any mentions of Lazzaro’s PAC in the numerous statements and denunciations pushed by Republicans in the state. There is a willful blindness that a man who promotes degeneracy is most likely himself a degenerate.

The furor of Carnahan’s ties to an alleged child abuser and pornographer brought out a tired line of defense that “Republican-on-Republican” fighting only helps the Democrats. Only in a diseased two-party system like we have could this be any excuse for refusing to do the right thing. At the very least, however, the behavior of the MNGOP should make it clear to even the stupidest observer that the Republican Party does not care about its voters and it does not care about their communities. It only cares about power insofar as it can be used to line one’s pockets and make problems go away.

Researching and writing this article made me sick to my stomach, but it is a lesson worth sharing. Whatever the path to saving our people, it assuredly does not run through the Republican Party. Let anyone advocating for a party which includes racial strangers and sexual deviants beware: the two most common things you find under a big tent are clowns and predators.