Loomer, Pro-Trump Islamophobe, Wins a Primary

On Tuesday, Florida’s Twenty-first Congressional District—where President Donald Trump now legally resides, and where he recently voted via mail-in ballot—held a congressional primary election. The four-term incumbent, a seventy-two-year-old Democrat named Lois Frankel, won her primary easily. On the Republican side, however, there was an upset. The victor, by nearly twenty percentage points, was Laura Loomer, a twenty-seven-year-old whose campaign Web site describes her as a “Conservative investigative journalist” and “a loyal supporter of President Donald J Trump.” As the returns came in, hundreds of Loomer’s supporters gathered—indoors and unmasked, of course, sticking it to the libs by endangering themselves—for a raucous victory party at a Hilton in Palm Beach. Milo Yiannopoulos, a professional troll and washed-up Internet demi-celebrity, served as the m.c. Also in attendance was Roger Stone, the notorious political “dirty trickster” who was convicted of lying to investigators about connections between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia. Stone, whose forty-month prison sentence was recently commuted by the President, introduced Loomer as “someone who is fearless in her defense of America” and “the Joan of Arc of the conservative movement.” Then an E.D.M. anthem dropped (“You shoot me down, but I won’t fall / I am titanium”), and Loomer took the stage.