How far have the fascists gotten into Michigan politics? Let's take a look at some fascists running for MI legislature and see how well supported they are by the GOP.

First, Proud Boy (a @splcenter designated hate group) Mike Detmer, running for the 8th Congressional District.
You may recognize the Jeep to Detmer's left as the one reported to have blocked a hospital entrance during the first ReOpen protest in Lansing. https://twitter.com/AfaVigilant/status/1250875974998204420
Detmer's from Howell, former Michigan HQ of the KKK (currently Owosso), he tends to like the libertarian brand of fascism the most. Check out Jerry Wayne of Belleville in the 3rd photo, he likes to get around.
While Detmer was doing his schmoozing in mid-April in Lansing, Jerry was hanging out with Joseph Oakman of the Proud Boys. Oakman enjoys meeting with Stefanie Rachelle Redding, who promotes assaulting 15 year old BLM protesters. He also enjoys harassing service workers.
Jerry likes to hang with other candidates too, like David Dudenhoefer. He's running on straight up Islamaphobia and black subjugation...not a winning ticket in Rashida Tlaib's district. Damn, is that a Coleman Young joke? This dude is 90s racist.
Back to Mike, he offered a fake apology for promoting the Proud Boys earlier, but hired Londa Gatt as his campaign manager. She's been rolling with the PBs for a couple of years now and runs Bikers for Trump in MI.
Londa has assaulted anti-fascist protesters, handed police a doctored video and got them arrested for self-defense (source: https://wethepeople.care/page/view-post?id=317). She also enjoys harassing Holocaust survivors at a Holocaust Memorial Center. That's her in the middle with her pet Proud Boy.
But these are just candidates in Districts likely to lose, how about established GOP politicians, like State Senator Jim Runestad? He's got Londa Gatt and Shelly Gregoire (ReOpen organizer) on his friends list.
Its not that unusual to have a campaign manager for a GOP candidate on his friend's list, especially one endorsed by Islamaphobe and working class nemesis Patrick Colbeck.

Jon Sumner, the driver of the Proud Boy Jeep that blocked a hospital? Hmmm...

https://twitter.com/AfaVigilant/status/1250875969503727616
That's about all we've got for Jim right now, beyond being a DeVos puppet. What's interesting is that, if his son Lee Runestad is the former I, Prevail drummer, then Jim potentially has far stronger connections to fascists right in the family tree.
It certainly looks like its the same Lee Runestad, but its hard to find any explicit acknowledgement of each other beyond name. There could be a lot of reasons for that, so we'll save the speculation.

What's not speculative is that Lee Runestad is an ardent fascist.
That was just the soft stuff, look at this dude's follower list. Next level bottom feeding for the son of a state senator and moderately popular drummer.

Nick Fuentes and Groypers galore!
Lee is also really into the Vinlanders, judging by his exchange with Ian Erickson. More on them here: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/vinlanders-social-club. They're Hammerskin derived and incredibly anti-semitic.
Lee also enjoys RTing Nazi rags like VDARE, and alt-right doofuses like Stephen Molyneux.
He also let his anti-black racism fly with Ahmaud Arbery's murder.
Lee also makes time for transphobia, too, he'll fit right in with Groypers and Vinlanders.
If the picture confirmation is true, and Lee is Jim's son, then he's got Proud Boy allegiances publicly and effectively Hammerskins in his son's contacts. That's the entire fascist radicalization pipeline in one prominent family.

Where does the GOP end and the hate group begin?
Oh yeah, and then there's Morgan Bolles, the Proud Boy City Commissioner of Fennville that's molested three women while they were intoxicated and killed a Holland Sentinel delivery driver with his car.

He can't be removed until December. https://twitter.com/AfaVigilant/status/1203323242162933761
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