This November, some of the nation’s most controversial sheriffs gathered for a week at a gorgeous waterfront hotel in Huntington Beach, California. For the past two years, MAGA-affiliated think tanks have hosted a selection of county sheriffs as Fellows of Honor, filling their hearts with bubbly far-right intellectualism and allowing these humble, heavily armed servants to reinvent themselves. I hope to have the courage to go home and implement the archetype. Authoritarian policies in the community. His 2022 class of Claremont Sheriff’s Fellows may be even scarier in personal ideology than he was two years ago.
The eight 2022 Claremont Institute Sheriff’s Fellows’ acceptance letters thanked them for their “support.”[ing] He promised $1,200 in travel expenses and a $1,500 honorarium. Pinal County Sheriff Mark LambHe is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Arizona next year and a possible 2021 Claremont Sheriff’s Fellow.
For the 2022 Sheriff’s Fellowship, Claremont has chosen not to list the honored sheriff’s name online. However, because sheriffs are elected civil servants and receive salaries from the state, requests for public records obtained by American Oversight, a nonpartisan, non-profit transparency watchdog organization, have resulted in Claremont schedules and fellowships. list was created. A major change from the 2021 curriculum was increased interest in guns and the assumption of Americans’ almost unlimited right to own guns.
The only sheriff to publicly announce his fellowship was Dar Leaf of Barry County, Michigan. He forwarded the letter of acceptance to Richard His Mack, founder and former president of the Association of Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers, on the day Sam appeared.bushman radio show Liberty Roundtable(Bushman now CEO of CSPOA and its National Operations Director.) Given the radicalism that preceded the Fellowship, Leaf was the obvious choice for the Fellowship.
In May 2020, Leaf anti mask rally with at least one militia member indicted For the attempted kidnapping of Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. After the 2020 election, Leaf one of the first sheriffs Alleged widespread voter fraud. Even though his county overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump, the sheriff sent investigators to demand that the voting machine be turned over to local election officials for forensic examination.he himself is the subject of the state investigation For tampering with voting tabulators.
Leaf’s responses to the questionnaire reveal the type of people Clairmont recruits. In reply to the essay, Leaf wrote that “civil rights laws are racist”, that the election was “infiltrated by foreign governments”, and that Davos and the World Economic Forum “are against our constitutions and limited governments.” core threat.” Leaf’s paranoid fantasy continues. “Goal…? New World Order.”
Leaf was not the only sheriff to threaten the basic functions of American democratic elections. He was joined by Yavapai County Sheriff David Rose of Arizona. Before the Fellowship, Rhodes had already become famous. meeting The Yavapai County Preparedness Team, a local Oath Keepers group, claimed that sheriffs had given permission to assemble a small militia to oversee ballot drop boxes during the 2022 midterm elections. clarified The sheriff did not approve the plan and it was withdrawn in light of critical press.
One of the notable changes between the 2021 Fellowship and last year’s Fellowship is the revised curriculum, which removed heady philosophical reading and replaced it with homework on guns and immigration. This year’s reading packet includes Supreme Court judgments. District of Columbia vs. Heller, McDonald’s vs Chicagoand New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, read together, reflects a progression of decisions that refine the theory of individual rights to firearms. These were packaged with questions on the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. David Rainey, Professor of History at Hillsdale College, who led the session. Raney’s research seeks to find historical precedent for the controversial notion that an individual’s right to own a firearm is explicitly required by the Constitution. he writes, “[The Founding Fathers] This right was recognized as an extension of the natural rights enshrined in the Declaration of Independence (the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness). In fact, according to Raney, it’s not just that guns are allowed in the constitution.Rather, they that is “For thousands of years it has been an important part of Western tradition and our birthright as free people.”
The second new addition was a dedicated session called “Immigration and National Security” led by Michael Anton, Brian Kennedy and Kyle Siderer. The measurements include editorial by Shideler and books Kennedy, Chinese Communist Party American Civil WarKennedy is Proposed The COVID-19 pandemic is part of China’s ‘war’ against the United States, write in China provided inside information and funding to Black Lives Matter and antifa as part of this master plan.Scheiderer was also very critical of Black Lives Matter, and Anton The fiercely authoritarian and anti-immigrant 2016 tract The “Flight 93 Election” argued that conservatives needed to rally in support of Trump’s candidacy.
It is also worth noting that this year there was considerable overlap between the Association of Constitutional Sheriffs and Peacemakers and the Claremont Fellows.Leaf is a member of CSPOA boardAnother Fellow, New Mexico Eddy County Sheriff Mark Cage, said:America’s premier constitutional sheriff“according to american police uniona group linked to the CSPOA Founder.
Interesting to see which fellows went no I will attend this year’s conference. Butts County, Georgia Sheriff Gary Long Judge’s Order Removing the trick-or-treating signs he put up on the front lawns of people on the sex offender registry. Long told me he didn’t attend the Huntington event. Texas Sheriff Keith Korenek told me he did not attend due to illness, but he is on the list of sheriffs who have attended CSPOA training in the past two years.
Ultimately, the 2021-2022 Claremont Sheriff’s Fellowship didn’t seem to see much change from a radical curriculum to frontline sheriffs implementing it in their communities.Among the few changes, however, were the addition of poetry to sections entitled “Sexual Revolution and Feminism” in 2021 and “Sexual Politics in America” in 2022. poetry—British poet Philip Larkin’s “Annus Mirabilis” begins with “The intercourse began / In 1963” and ends with “So life was never good / In 1963”.
It’s clearly a period many Claremont Sheriff Fellows cherish, and sadly, it’s the one they’re trying to win back for the rest of us. To.
