GOP candidate for a Michigan House seat tells his daughters to enjoy being raped

Harris reacts to Regan telling his daughters to enjoy being raped.

Robert "R.J." Regan, a Republican who just won a special election to fill the Michigan House seat in District 74, is an election denier. To make a point about decertifying the 2020 Presidential election in Michigan, he offered some ‘wisdom’ he had shared with his daughters.

"Having three daughters, I tell my daughters, 'if rape is inevitable, you should just lay back and enjoy it’.

The remark was so unempathetic — and creepy — that even the other panelists on the ultra-conservative FB group he belongs to, the ‘Michigan Rescue Coalition’, were gobsmacked. Amber Harris was open-mouthed in astonishment. And expressed dismay at Regan’s remark, saying, "That was a shameful comment,"  

The group's host, Adam de Angeli, pointed out that the show is "streaming on YouTube, probably not for much longer after what Robert said." Not enough. The group needs to oust Regan and call child protective services to ensure his daughters are not the victims of something.

De Angeli attempted to excuse Regan’s social media throw up by saying,

"Maybe not the best analogy, but he was speaking extemporaneously,"   

That is as bad as the “it was the alcohol talking.” When we speak off the cuff, we will not be as polished as if we had practiced. But we will be more honest, as our brain has not analyzed the sentiment in the cold light of day and realized it is reprehensible. Every successful trial attorney knows that the truth is revealed in chance remarks we do not think through. It is the sober person's version of “in vino veritas.”

No one knows a parent as well as a child. And one of his daughters, Stephanie, was clear in her thinking about her Dad when in June 2020, she tweeted,

"if you’re in michigan and 18+ pls for the love of god do not vote for my dad for state rep. tell everyone."

Regan admitted, at the time, there was friction with his daughters when in a reply, posted to FB, he wrote,

"I am happy that she feels confident enough in our relationship to express her opposing thoughts so publicly," adding that he loves his children, and "we may not always agree on 'what is best,' but, their best, is my goal."

I do not know how enjoying rape is ‘what is best’ for his children. But the conservative mind is a mystery to me. Regan further explained the roots of his daughter’s ‘misguided’ thinking,

“A lot of students when they go off to these liberal university campuses, like the University of Colorado, the University of Texas and Austin — and she went to the University of Colorado in Boulder — and you know, they just kind of get sucked into this Marxist, communist ideology and she and I just don’t see eye to eye when it comes to the whole socialism, communism, Marxist philosophy,”

He was not done,

“Her big thing has to do with the systemic racism that’s going on in the country. She’s a big believer in that. The only place where I really see systemic racism would be the abortion clinic cause they seem to target the African American community. I don’t buy into this whole systemic racism thing at all.”

Spoken like a true white person. “I haven't suffered racism, so there isn’t any racism.” However, in his mind, he is a victim,

“I’m not saying there’s not hurdles to overcome. We all have hurdles to overcome. You know, as a quote-unquote rich, white, Christian male, people look at me a certain way. And it’s not always good. So, everybody has obstacles to overcome.”

And then he iced his racist cake with a tip of the hat to the most overtly racist man to be President since Woodrow Wilson, when he said that Trump had,

"done more for the black community than any president we’ve had in the last 20 years."

It will not surprise you to know that after his “enjoy your rape” rant, Regan expressed support for Putin and his war in Ukraine. Because he thought it was the only way Putin could defend Russia against the genocidal Ukrainians, who were threatening to unleash biological weapons, cooked up in secret labs, to wipe out the Russian population.

How do people get like this?