Earlier this month, South Carolina voters watched a parade of disturbing campaign images that have become increasingly familiar in modern politics.
Among the most striking were social media posts featuring candidates posing with military-style rifles, firing weapons at shooting ranges or otherwise presenting themselves as warriors in the nation’s ongoing cultural battles.
Several of the candidates who most enthusiastically embraced those images — including former gubernatorial candidate U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace and U.S. Senate candidate Mark Lynch — have now lost their primary contests.
Their campaigns are over.
For many South Carolinians, such displays represent independence, constitutional liberty and support
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