For the record, I'd vote for him. But people pretending it's just because of his politics are uh, under-selling it. I will repeat that Mariano Rivera, a huge public Trump supporter, got 100% of the vote on his first ballot.

Schilling’s rhetoric has only grown more incendiary since his firing. On Twitter, days before the 2016 presidential election, he praised a photo showing a pro-Donald Trump t-shirt that advocated lynching; “So much awesome here,” he wrote regarding a shirt that read, “Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some assembly required.” ...

 

In May 2017, after Orioles outfielder Adam Jones revealed that he had been subjected to racist taunts at Fenway Park, Schilling accused Jones of lying, as though he himself had borne witness to the outfielder’s experience. This came even after CC Sabathia echoed Jones‘ story about receiving racist taunts at Fenway and said of the 62 Black players in the league, “We all know. When you go to Boston, expect it.” Even so, Schilling continued to double down on the topic to a discomforting degree....

 

In mid-December 2017, by the time many voters had sent off their ballots, Schilling did a podcast interview with Paul Nehlen, a white supremacist Congressional candidate from Wisconsin who was dropped as a contributor from Breitbart News — a far-right website the Southern Poverty Law Center has called a “white ethno-nationalist propaganda mill” — for a string of anti-Semitic messages. The podcast, which featured Schilling endorsing and promoting Nehlen’s campaign and describing himself as “a fan,” was taken down by Breitbart soon afterwards. Elsewhere in 2018, Schilling stayed busy by retweeting a conspiracy theory suggesting that one of the survivors of the Parkland massacre was a paid crisis actor, called climate change “a hoax,” and used his Facebook page to promote the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory.