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In reply to the discussion: BLM Seattle protestor is a republican? [View all]JHB
(38,187 posts)One of McCain's rationales for picking Palin was that religious conservatives liked her. Johnson would have been about 16 at the time, and only a couple of years later she went to a religiously-oriented college, first majoring in business administrations, then switching to theology. She's described herself as a church lady. So a very religious conservative-favoring person probably didn't have much use for white progressives back then.
Later, she becomes radicalized at some point and joins BLM by last November (news reports from a Black Friday protest quote her as an organizer, so it's not as if she popped up at the event Bernie was at), but still has no use for white progressives.
It's hardly out of the ordinary for someone who has radically changed on some points to still grind an axe about old foes. And it makes a whole lot more sense than the Republicans (or Hillary, depending on the theory du jour) planting an operative in BLM months before Bernie declared a run, just for the chance that he would come to Seattle and appear at an event that they'd be able to disrupt.
Just because ratfucking exists doesn't mean everything is ratfucking.