This seems about right: a former leader of the American Nazi Party is close to getting the Rethuglican / New Confederate / Trumpist Party nomination for a Congressional seat in Illinois:
"According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier who has repeatedly tried ― and failed ― to attain office, is the only candidate seeking the GOP nod for the seat in the heavily Democratic 3rd Congressional District. Images on Jones’ campaign website showed him speaking at KKK and neo-Nazi events, giving the Nazi salute and shredding the flag of Israel. He called the Confederate flag the symbol of 'white pride,' 'white resistance' and 'white counterrevolution.' Jones also told the Sun-Times that the Holocaust was 'an international extortion racket.'”The article goes on to note that "Party leaders have disowned Jones." They may not have chosen him (yet), but he chose them for a reason, and that's all you need to know about the state of the Rethuglican / Trumpist menace to this country.
BONUS: Here he is in his regalia --
white supremacist ideology IS the foundation, source and fuel of American racism!
ReplyDeleteAND finally has placed an overt white supremacist racist, bigot IN the WHITE House to set policy and sign laws based on that ideology!
Oh look ...one more for the team!
Gerald -- The bigots have a party they can call their own. Look at the "Southern Strategy," David Duke, Jesse Helms, and Steve King. No one should be surprised at this.
ReplyDeleteThe White Supremacist party, under countless names, has been around, sure. And it's reared its ugly head over and over again, and been met with resistance and revulsion. Decent people will always fight against them.
ReplyDeleteBut for the first time, we have a president and majority party who not only acknowledge the racists, but support and embrace them and their terrible hate. We don't have to imagine what it would be like to have a president who believes that the country should be all white. It's real, and it's being met with approval by a shocking number of Americans.
This scenario is a nightmare, a worst-case example of what happens when democracy is torn apart and people are incited to segregate and voice their hatred outright. It's scary and it's wrong.