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875: Matt Walsh

Enabling, Rape Culture

Matt Walsh is a rightwing political podcaster. He describes himself as a theocratic fascist. He’s not wrong about that. He also has a column at The Daily Wire. He is mostly defined by what he is against rather than what he is for. He is against Black mermaids, drag queens, and people who are trans. He hatemongers with claims of grooming and pedophilia. Meanwhile, he thinks sixteen-year-olds should get pregnant, that adolescence is nonsense, and child marriage is peachy.

874: Ron Johnson

Enabling

Ron Johnson is a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. Before politics, he was on the Finance Council of the Green Bay Diocese. He worked hard to protect the Diocese from accountability for protecting pedophiles over the years. He argued that employers of pedophiles should not be financially responsible for the actions of their employees. You can hear his testimony out of his own mouth.

857: Ken Paxton

Enabling

Trafficking? That he doesn’t care about despite asking for more money to fight trafficking. He created a new trafficking unit, but it’s not clear what it does. He did not get a single conviction in 2020 and only four in 2021. No wonder Texas is second in the nation for most reported trafficking cases. At least fourteen employees in the trafficking division left, frustrated at mismanagement

852: Doug Wilson

Enabling, Rape Culture

Doug Wilson is the leader of a reactionary religious movement and the pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. He preaches that men dominate and women submit. Rape and child molestation is not reported to authorities. Women who are abused by their husbands are put into “church discipline” and Wilson argues men cannot rape their wives because he can’t trespass in his own garden.

833: John Grant

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape Culture

John Grant is the pastor of Calvary Gospel Church in Madison. He elevated himself to bishop in 2015. He is also accused of abetting child molesters in his church by shaming the children and women and enforcing their silence to remain in church. He made child rape victims apologize to the church for being raped.

824: Tom Horne

Enabling, Rape Culture

Tom Horne is currently the Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction. During his 2022 campaign, he defended hiring former Arizona Rep. David Stringer for his campaign. He didn’t just hire him and defend it, he made the false claim that Stringer was proven innocent.

751: Jason Miyares

Enabling

In a decision that practically ensures more children will be abused, Miyares handed the investigation of Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents off to a local prosecutor with a small staff, so the resources of the state and its investigators will no longer be brought to bear on an institution accused of neglect and abuse. More than three dozen women allege they were sexually abused. More than fifty people have filed suit against the hospital for abuse. The previous Attorney General Mark Herring had already prosecuted two staff, but now it will depend on what a small, local prosecutor can do. The prosecutor, T. Scott Renick, had not asked for jurisdiction to be returned.