CO Rep Celebrates Death Of “Despot” Jimmy Carter

Colorado Politics reports:

Thanking the Almighty for the death of a 100-year-old man best known for building houses and farming peanuts is a step beyond even most of the uncharitable eulogies we’ve seen from anyone in the barely a day since former President Carter’s death. Rep. Matt Soper has a reputation as one of the more intellectual members of the Colorado House GOP minority caucus, wherein the bar is admittedly low – but from blaming Dominion Voting machines for the results of a city council election he didn’t like to threatening a civil war over gun safety bills, it’s a reputation that our experience hasn’t borne out.

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Soper appeared here last year when he refused to co-sponsor a Martin Luther King Jr. Day resolution because of “critical race theory.” He has deleted the tweet below and offered the standard fauxpology.