Hey everybody, meet Stephanie Mack, Republican candidate for Vermont House in the Chittenden-24 district. She ran against incumbent Democrat Alyssa Black and lost by more than 20 percentage points. (“Erik Post” was a Dem candidate in the neighboring Chittenden-23 district. Does Mack know who she was running against?) Apparently she’s taken her loss poorly; she wrote a lengthy post on her campaign’s Facebook page bemoaning the dominance of Democrats and predicting a coming “civil revolution.”

After a while she apparently had second thoughts and removed the post. Fortunately, I have screenshots. Funny thing is, she wrote a new post that’s much, much worse. It casts doubt on the 2026 election results and urges Trump to take control of the election system. It’s January 6 all over again, except without the feces-smearing and general mayhem. I think.

And she wonders why she couldn’t appeal to voters in a deep blue district.

Her initial post in more detail. She bemoans the fact that she couldn’t draw any more votes than her predecessor. In fact, 2024 was a Republican wave election. If she got as many votes in 2026 as a Republican drew in 2024, she actually did pretty well. Especially since 2024 was a presidential year and a lot more people voted. This is one accountant who seems unfamiliar with the use of numbers.

Mack centered her campaign on her professional experience in accountancy. She called for a complete audit of the entire state government, a notion that would induce a horse laugh from Auditor Doug Hoffer. He’s been auditing bits and pieces of the government full-time for nearly 14 years and hasn’t come anywhere close to exploring the whole thing.

Also, her audit demand ought to be addressed to Gov. Phil Scott, who’s been running the state for a decade and is in the best position to do what she wants. But her grasp on how government works, not to mention her grip on reality, seems a little shaky. In this context it should be noted that she has yet to file the campaign finance report due on October 30, which undercuts her claim to fiscal probity.

Starting with the second paragraph, seen above, she claims that Democrats control everything (Ms. Mack, the governor’s on line 2) and “Republicans can barely get an opposing thought into the local papers & social media.” Well, the local papers are shells of their former selves and nobody can get stuff into them. And leaving aside the irony of Mack complaining freely on the world’s biggest social media platform about lack of access, she could resort to the conservative hellscape that is X-formerly-knkown-as-Twitter, where she’d be welcomed with open arms. Not to mention Instagram and Threads, subsidiaries of Facebook. Heck, she’d even be welcome on Bluesky if she wants to open an account.

But we haven’t gotten to the crazy parts yet. She makes a false comparison between prayer in public schools (forcing a religion on children) and a politician making a speech in a public arena. I’d like to know how many politicians gave victory speeches on election night thanking their Christian God and their lord and savior Jesus Christ. I’ll bet it’s quite a few more than the one Muslim guy. And none of them got censored or even criticized.

Oh, and prayer in public schools isn’t “toxic,” it’s “unconstitutional.”

Mack then complains that Democrats “have locked in one marginalized group after another — women, gay voters, trans voters, and now Muslims.” It’s more correct to say conservatives have locked OUT those groups. The right opposes reproductive rights and marriage equality, its president wants to erase transgender folk and his party spent millions campaigning against trans rights, and after how they treated Abdul El-Sayed, why would any Muslim vote Republican?

She failed to mention the Republican collapse among people of color driven by Trump’s ruthless ICE enforcement regime, the Supreme Court decision throwing out most of the Voting Rights Act, and the GOP’s gerrymandering spree intended to slash Black representation in political life.

There follows a paragraph about how people “don’t want to work hard” anymore, they just want handouts. She then forecasts “a civil revolution” that ought to happen before “the supermajority decides to go after the right to bear arms.” Okay, for one thing, nobody’s coming for your guns. For another, you think you’re going to carry out a revolution with that handgun in your nightstand? Suuuuuuuure.

That’s about it for the deleted post. As for the fountain of nonsense she replaced it with, it’s all about “the cheaters,” i.e. the libs, who apparently stole the 2026 election. Her source for that is “one widely shared video,” which includes a prediction that Trump “will invoke the Insurrection Act to overturn results and make arrests.” C’mon now, there isn’t even anybody in the Trump administration who’s claiming the election was stolen, not even the Denier-In-Chief himself. He’s spent the post-election period prattling about ballrooms and his tacky profusion of gold in the Oval Office.

Mack goes on at length to rant about “widespread fraud, foreign interference, [and] coordinated obstruction” that “made fair elections impossible.” No proof is on offer, except I guess that “one widely shared video.”

If she took down her initial, self-pitying post, there’s a good chance somebody will convince her to take down the election-denial successor, so I will attach my screenshot below. Just in case this person ever tries to run for the Legislature again.

Mack’s initial, now deleted Facebook post:

Mack’s second Facebook post, still live as of this writing: