[vanusa]

He's probably been saying only slightly less unhinged things for years and years and years, to pretty much the same people. Yet none of the people now "outraged" every said anything about it, or acted like anything was amiss.

So why not take it just a little step further?

[rsynnott]

I mean, I think if he was _regularly_ emailing racist nonsense to the governor, it would have come out before.

[vanusa]

Probably not explicitly racist stuff, and perhaps not to the Gov directly.

But it's a safe bet he was probably sending out lower-key versions of this kind of stuff to an ever-expanding circle of people. Until he felt, you know, "safe" enough to finally let his freak flag fly.