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Open thread October 26, 2018

Dan Crawford | October 26, 2018 7:38 am

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  • EMichael says:
    October 26, 2018 at 10:25 am

    But whatever you do, never, ever call GOP voters deplorable. Not nice.

    “Steve King is the incumbent in the Fourth District. He is a Republican who’s been in office for 16 years now. He also is as plainly a white supremacist as has ever fouled the House of Representatives. He long ago embraced out-and-out fascists. The government of the republic needs to be rid of Steve King as quickly as possible.

    His recent escapades include going to Europe to confer, converse, and otherwise hobnob with actual fascists who are distressingly coming to power there. And King, because he lacks the sensitivity of a hunting knife, found an interesting way to pay for his travel. From The Washington Post:

    ‘In an interview with a website associated with the party, King (R-Iowa) declared that “Western civilization is on the decline,” spoke of the replacement of white Europeans by immigrants and criticized Hungarian American financier George Soros, who has backed liberal groups around the world. King spoke to the Unzensuriert site Aug. 24 in Vienna, a day after concluding a five-day journey to Jewish and Holocaust historical sites in Poland, including the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. The trip, including airfare to and from Europe, was financed by From the Depths, an international nonprofit that seeks to educate lawmakers about the Holocaust.’

    Lovely.

    King described his travels in Poland as a “very, very powerful experience” but also described later visiting historical sites separately from the From the Depths group to get a “Polish perspective” on the Holocaust.“I asked them what was worse, was it the Nazis or was it the Soviets?” he said. “And they don’t know the answer to that because the Soviets occupied them longer, may have killed more of them, but it was over a longer period of time.”

    The Polish perspective? Steve King is very bad at code.”

    https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a24232523/steve-king-holocaust-trip-far-right-groups/

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