Erick Woods Erickson (born June 3, 1975) is an American conservative talk radio host, blogger, and former politician.
[9] Erickson was elected on November 6, 2007, to a four-year term as a Republican member of the Macon, Georgia city council.
The Washington Post noted that "The ability of a single e-mail to shape a message illustrates the power of the conservative network."
[17][18] Later that month, Erickson said that his parents refused to serve him "Asian food" when he was a child on December 7, the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Rush Limbaugh died on February 17, 2021, and Erickson took over the late host’s three-hour midday time slot in the Atlanta radio market in March 2021.
A small-government fiscal and social conservative based in the South, he taps into and influences the Republican 'base' that the GOP's 2008 candidates are courting.
[33] In 2013, Erickson was criticized by Elle Reeve in The Atlantic for saying in an interview on Fox Business Network that males dominate females in the "natural world" and it was only "science" for men to be the breadwinners for their families.
The statement, which was described as a "vicious, anti-LGBTQ manifesto" by the progressive activist group Human Rights Campaign, was attacked by some Christian leaders.
"[41] Erickson compared the Obama administration's health care communications director Linda Douglass to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
[42] In November 2018, Erickson tweeted that foreign aid to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico would be more effectively spent installing "Pinochet types" in these countries.
When challenged on this proposal, Erickson replied "I'm hoping for some helicopters in this plan", a reference to the Death flights in Chile during Pinochet's regime.
She noted that "Pinochet was a Chilean dictator who committed massive human rights abuses," and that Erickson got the "facts exactly backward.
Recent history and social science don't show that authoritarian regimes stop people from fleeing across borders.