Earlier this month, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were assassinated in their home. Scarcely 24 hours afterward, Mike Lee, a Republican Senator from Utah, posted, “This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way.” Then, an hour later, he added, “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” in an apparent reference to a fringe conspiracy theory about Tim Walz.
What kind of soullessness does it take to respond like this? The news cycle has moved on from Lee's callous behavior, but we will not forget how the senator used his platform to sow division and mock his own colleague amid intensifying political violence.
For all this and more, Mike Lee has earned a spot in our Villains Hall of Fame.
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