In a Twitter message, I asked Lana why she and other far-right women attack physical appearance. Lana had recently compared Christine Blasey Ford, during her congressional testimony about alleged sexual misconduct by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, to Dana Carvey in Wayne’s World. “Lighten up,” Lana told me, adding that “trauma” wasn’t a guy “rubbing up against her or whatever decades ago.” When I asked her the same question after she publicly called a female journalist fat, Lana replied that the target of her cruelty was “clearly unhealthy. What would her fellow comrades say about
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