How Did The MyPillow Guy Become Leader Of The Right Wing Crazies

Immediately following the 2020 election, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell emerged as the man who was going to turn it all around and put Trump back into the White House. He had such a strong message that he even managed to gain an audience with Republican Senators and the White House itself. The question that still needs to be answered is "WHY?" Why on earth did the pillow man become the leader of the right wing crazies? Farron Cousins attempts to answer that question.

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I want an answer. And the question that I have that I want to answer, and I will attempt to answer is how in the hell did the MyPillow guy, Mike Lindell become the leader of the right wing crazies here in the United States. Honestly, think about it for a moment. Okay. Because I think this is a important thing to talk about here. How did this guy who was known for going on TV and hugging his pillow and talking about how much he loved it? And I make him right here in Minnesota, suddenly he's the leader of the crazy people here in the United States. And I think it's worth examining why that happened. And of course, how all that happened. Well, first and foremost, let's not forget Linde is a Republican. He was a Trump supporter. And at one point in the early days of the administration, Trump brings out Mike Dale to, you know, talk in the rose garden.

He did a horrible job. He was nervous. He was sweaty. He was trembling. But yeah, you know, he was talking about businesses and Hey, that guy ran a successful bus, right? But that little taste of real stardom, real power apparently got to Linde and he became hungry for more. It's almost like he got addicted to it. That was a low blow. But anyway, in the days, following the 2020 election Lin put on a little presentation, put on a presentation about how they could delay the certification of the electoral college votes. By claiming that there were problems with the voting machines. And in this presentation, three sitting Republican senators attended it, some virtually some in person, people from the white house, from the Trump administration itself attended this little meeting that was in that little war room. They set up in the Willard hotel in Washington, DC Giuliani was there.

I believe Sidney Powell was there. Sitting members of Congress were there. And of course they had another meeting with members from the house of representatives. Linde had his audience. Linde had some of the most powerful people in this country, listening intently to his plan to overturn the election. Now they didn't go along with it. Obviously some of Trump's lawyers clearly did, and it's gotten them into a world of legal problems, all because of Mike Linde, Linde ever since then has gone on his crusades to try to overturn the election. He's pushed these bogus ballot audits. He's held two different cyber symposiums where he promised to turn over all the evidence and then turned over. Absolutely nothing, except some numbers on a screen that somebody typed out, no actual evidence to even tell us what those numbers meant, but the guy was absolutely full of it. But by then it was too late. He had his captive audience, the true believers latching on to what the pillow man had to say. And again, this kind of brings me back almost to the beginning, right after the 2020 election. Why are you listening to a pillow guy, Mike Lindell or not? I mean, what, what, what about the pillow man made it seem like, oh, this is a guy that totally knows voter fraud because you know, he's got pillows.

I, I don't follow that at logic. There, there's no way that makes sense. Like Mike and Dell has no background in technology, no background in voting machines, no background in, you know, finding fraud of any kind anywhere or for any reason. So why suddenly does the pillow man come forward and say, I am the unequivocal leader, the commanding voice in exposing voting fraud and the Republican party, including again, members of the Trump administration and sitting members of Congress out there were going to yeah, totally makes sense. Why not from the pillow man? I mean, was flow from progressive, not, I mean, really you, you got a TV pitch, man telling you how to overthrow the election. This is crazy town. And Mike Linde is the mayor of crazy town, but he got to be that way because they gave him an audience because these individuals took him seriously an enough to at least sit through what he had to say. And when they did that, they legitimized him. And that legitimization is what led to all the Maraes following right along with him. And that unfortunately is how Mike Linda DOE became the leader of the right wing crazies.