It all started with a small-town politician blathering on about how President-elect Joe Biden will destroy all the supposed advances Donald Trump brought to this country.
But when Republican Dean Browning, former Lehigh County, Pa., County Commissioner and failed congressional candidate, defended his position, things got really bizarre.
Browning, clearly a white man in his profile picture, claimed to be a "black gay guy" whose life was improved by Trump. Former Advocate editor in chief Zach Stafford screencapped the tweet before it was deleted: Browning's strange response took off, with many assuming the former Republican official had created a fake Twitter account where he portrayed himself as Dan Purdy, a gay Black man, and accidentally