Park County MAGA Republican Central Committee

The silencing of the MAGA faithful…

So long, old guy.

Silencing the old and faithful elephant too. Kind of sad they’ve removed the old guy from their logo.

It seems the regimentation of the Park County MAGA Republican Central Committee (PCMRCC) precludes its members from engaging in political back-and-forth with their perceived enemies—Democrats, Democrat Elites, Marxists, Socialists, the Devil himself—on social media. The PR Chair, Kimberly Gregory, posts on Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, and most likely on far-right platforms like Truth Social, Parlor, Rumble, BitChute, etc.

But engagement with those who don’t share the lockstep MAGA ideology is something the Central Committee does not do. Or, to be more precise, with Wissel as Chair of PCMRCC, MAGA faithful don’t get into the social media trenches anymore to argue their case.

I suspect, and please correct me if I’m wrong, PCMRCC Chair Wissel has cautioned his compadres that engaging on social media leads to nothing good for the MAGA side. It’s like the caution in Gracie Slick’s “White Rabbit:”   

The fantasies engendered by consuming psychotropic drugs are not compatible with reasoned logic. The fantasies engendered by consuming MAGA conspiracies, the Big Lie, the tenets of Tactical Civics, and Evangelical Dominionism, coupled with the elevation of a malignant narcissist to the status of White Knight, bodes ill for any attempt to reason logically. The heady MAGA hallucinogens have the other (anyone that isn’t them), among other things, killing babies after they’re born, eating pet dogs and cats, and taking away your guns and your t-bones.      

A few die-hard MAGAites occasionally engaged on NextDoor, but no more. The last one to do so—a member of PCMRCC as a Precinct Chairperson—posted a few pro-MAGA narratives not long ago complimentary of Dave Wissel (Chair of the PCMRCC and District 3 Commissioner), Amy Mitchell (Immediate past-Chair of the PCMRCC and District 1 Commissioner), and Jason Gemmer (PCMRCC Candidate for the District 2 Commissioner seat), but removed them when comments were overwhelmingly negative.

Cyndie Sherriff, a twice-defeated candidate for the Platte Canyon School Board and a once-defeated primary candidate for county commissioner, a Wissel apologist for sure, and now a member of the Park County Land and Water Trust Fund Board, used to pop up all the time on NextDoor. No more, except to post links about the Platte Canyon School Board fashioned by her and her compadre Heather Prewitt.

Then, of course, Dave Wissel proclaimed the PCMRCC candidates for commission seats, Amy Mitchell and Jason Gemmer, would not participate in League of Women Voters candidate forums, where both PCMRCC and Democratic candidates would appear together. His reasoning was a little specious, but we’ve come to expect that from Wissel.

What questions would Amy Mitchell and Jason Gemmer fear being asked at a public forum? I don’t know, but I could speculate.

For Amy Mitchell:

1. Did you reach out to Michelle Malkin to endorse your candidacy as you did in 2020?
2. You exhibited an egregious misunderstanding of the RFP process during the Platte Canyon School District’s sale of the 599 Rosalie property. Have you educated yourself on the RFP process so you won’t make the same mistake again?
3. Did Joe Biden win the 2020 presidential election?
4. In October 2021, you said you’d rather spend $10,000 of county tax money on an audit of the 2020 election instead of the Clear Ballot system to affirm the accuracy of the Dominion ballot counts. Do you still want to spend county tax money on an audit of the 2020 election?
5. Do you agree with Commissioner Wissel that the Platte Canyon Health District proponents were arrogant and hypocritical?
6. With specifics, how will you fund the needs of the Sheriff’s Department to ensure there is 24/7 coverage of the county?

 For Jason Gemmer:

1. At Burro Days this year, you publicly stated that you seek the District 2 Commissioner seat to keep Park County red. You also said that you fear the county is being pushed toward Democratic candidates by Democrat elites. What is a “red” Park County, and who are the Democrat elites? Can you define a Democrat elite?
2. Did Joe Biden win the 2020 presidential election?
3. May we assume you want to serve all citizens of Park County? Since you’ll be receiving $101,180 of our tax money if you win, will you even serve Democrat elites?  
4. You said at Burro Days that you don’t necessarily want to be involved in government. Why don’t you want to be involved in government?
5. It’s alleged you indicated you may support the tenets of Tactical Civics, like the people’s grand jury and militia. Is that true?
6. With specifics, how will you fund the needs of the Sheriff’s Department to ensure there is 24/7 coverage of the county?

Sure, a slew of questions should be asked of these two and the Democrat candidates as well. And it would have been informative and revealing to see how the two sets of candidates—MAGA Republicans vs. Democrats—would handle the answers if they’d been on the spot at the same place, same time.

Wissel fears that, though. Maybe Amy Mitchell and Gemmer do, too. And why have all the MAGA warriors forsaken social media except those sites where they won’t be challenged? Why, I wonder?

“Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.”  ― Glenn Beck