Stacy Besch had been appointed as a member of the Empower Rural Iowa Initiative by Republican Governor Kim Reynolds. She was as asked to resign that position, however, after she posted a version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion on her Facebook account on November 16, 2023.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a forged document that purports to prove a secret conspiracy theory by Jews to control the world. The Protocols was one of Adolf Hitler’s favorite reading materials, and was used as propaganda by Nazi Germany as its armies slaughtered American soldiers and killed millions of Jews in concentration camps.
It was just a few weeks after she posted this Nazi propaganda that the Trump for President campaign welcomed her into the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.
Stacy Besch is listed in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition as a “small group leader” in Kossuth County, Iowa.
What is that small group that Stacy Besch leads, though?
On her Facebook profile, she describes herself as working for “God’s Army’ and as a leader of the Kossuth County Patriots of Iowa, which is an affiliate of the Iowa Liberty Network, a Christian Nationalist organization, that meets in Algona, Iowa.
Besch encourages her followers to practice a form of Christianity that spreads violent disruption throughout society. “The problem is, some of y’all are sitting at tables God sent you to flip,” she says.
It seems that Besch is used to hearing people complain about her radical Christian Nationalist conspiracy theories. She now interprets the impression that her ideas seem unhinged as a sign that she has realized a great secret truth. One recent social media post from Besch warns, “They condition you to believe that people like us are unhinged, harmful, conspiracy theorists so you don’t listen to us. Because once you go down the rabbit-hole and learn the truths we’ve learned, there is no looking back.”
Among the “truths” that Stacy Besch insists is not at all unhinged is that “Most of society is Satanic, and they don’t even know it.” She also advises that “Satan has a way of making you look crazy to the eyes of unbelievers.” Following this line of thinking, Besch seems to have concluded that the more crazy she seems, the more of a good Christian she must be.
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