Michael Peroutka is fighting mad.
He’s still angry that Maryland was kept from seceding in 1861 by the state’s then-governor and Lincoln’s machinations (e.g., planting artillery batteries on a hill overlooking Baltimore after federal troops were attacked there; see historical details here and here).
Although not born until 1952, Peroutka is a diehard Confederate (see profile here). He’s also a Christian nationalist (see description here), a former Maryland county councilman, and was the 2022 GOP nominee for Maryland attorney general.
Peroutka (photo, left) was crushed by Anthony Brown, 60% to 39.9%. With 75% of votes tallied, the Democrat led Peroutka by over 300,000 votes of 1.4 million counted so far. Peroutka was outraged when Brown declared victory, calling him “presumptuous” (see story here).
Rather than concede, Peroutka plans to investigate the election, citing “many odd and suspicious incidents” reported by his pollwatchers (see tweet here). Yeah, people voting; not only that, but also the wrong people voting (photo below).
Peroutka is a former member of the League of the South, a white supremacist organization designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
That didn’t seem to deter Maryland’s Republican voters; he’s actually outperforming Dan Cox, the GOP nominee for governor, who’s getting 37.0% of the votes in that race. But Cox has issues, too (see his profile here).
These guys, Peroutka and Cox, can question the election all they like. This is America, and of free speech. They’re allowed to be election deniers. But they freaking lost. Peroutka is not going to be Maryland’s attorney general. Let him go home and stew about it, and drown in his own bile.
