Fascism Came to Idaho—and Hundreds of People Just Sat and Watched

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Feb 25, 2025 · 4m

At a Kootenai County Republican Central Committee meeting at Coeur d'Alene High School in Idaho, a woman was bound and forcefully removed by a group of unidentified men for supposedly interrupting the public gathering several times.

The video is disturbing to watch, with the men violently yanking Teresa Borrenpohl by the arm, zip-typing her, and dragging her out of the auditorium by her wrists and ankles, within feet of the local Sheriff. As the scene unfolds, the host of the event can be heard mocking her over the sound system.

Most unsettling of all (at least to me), were the rows of…