Sovereign Citizens think the law doesn't apply to them due to esoteric readings of the Constitution. As Isaac Suárez-Nugent explains, their legal theory has deep roots in a little-known movement (Posse Comitatus) influencing the far right to this day.
The GOP was happily working with far-right Russian émigrés during the Cold War whose ideology was no different from the ex-CPSU member neo-Nazis who emerged after 1991 It's only natural that the GOP feels strong affinity with the post-1991 hard right regimes of Russia
Medea Benjamin attended the New Horizons conference in Iran, one of the world's foremost gatherings of fascists, conspiracy theorists and propagandists which has featured the likes of David Duke and Anthony Hall.