Olson brings backstory on SDGOP civil war

Shad Olson shared more on red state failure.

Jon Hansen is a dumber version of John Thune. On a national level, the uniparty believes that with Trump off the ballot, the 2026 midterms will mean a Democrat return to power in House and Senate and a Trump impeachment and removal from office.

In "red" states like South Dakota, the Bush-Cheney-Nikki Haley AIPAC-AFP neocons are positioning to retake power and rid themselves of the Tea Party-MAGA movement and a restoration of atheist Koch Network corporatism as the controlled opposition to their indistinguishable "pals" on the left. The uniparty RINO cabal in full control in Pierre. The Hansen-Lems ticket is an AFP vehicle to ensure RINO line of succession in the executive suite. Hansen-Lems have zero pathway to victory... but they're fully capable of ensuring that either Dusty Johnson or Larry Rhoden are able to stave off Toby Doeden's self-funded campaign.

Whether by the innocence of historical and political ignorance or fully informed complicity, shallow idiots like Katie Hoffmann are being swept along in the subversion of the MAGA movement while making endless excuses for their open ties to Pat Powers, Hugh Bartels, Lee Schoenbeck, and the rest of the miniature potentates of the South Dakota swamp salivating over their return to GOP control.

Unlike Katie, I've never believed her bright enough to distinguish fish from fowl in the South Dakota political ethos, much less to engage nuanced policy debates without losing the thread, ending up on the wrong side of the issue and doing massive damage to the conservative movement. She's a moron and proves that, nearly daily.

Quick story... Jon Hansen (and SD Right to Life director Dale Bartscher) were ready, willing and eager to preemptively surrender abortion legalization exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother during the 2024 Amendment G abortion scuffle. They believed stupidly that a preemptive softening of South Dakota's abortion trigger ban would keep Amendment G off the ballot. Because surrender and compromise are their core identities. Thankfully, Hansen and Bartscher were shouted into submission by the stronger and more devout among the pro-life faithful. Preemptive compromise averted. 

Jon admitted to multiple lawmakers in the 2025 session that he never even bothered to read the Scott Odenbach-Kristi Noem-AFP "School Choice" trojan horse monstrosity HB1020 that would have given the Department of Education full curriculum control over beneficiary homeschool and private school families. He never read the bill he cosponsored. 

If this type of cowardice and betrayal are the definition of being a "true fighter," it becomes more clear why the slower members of the church choir have been so utterly deceived, misled and confused.

Beyond that... their constant willingness for slander, cancel culture lies and reputational harm are testimony to a level of both stupidity and bad faith that belongs nowhere near the reigns of power.

A "No Confidence" vote in present leadership by the House of Representatives would be a well-deserved Godsend. A care package of defamation lawsuits and a few years of litigation against their favorite mouthpieces are in order as well and under construction. More on that at a future date.