Political Former American Nazi Party Leader Is GOP Nominee in Illinois Congressional Race

Will this be the eventual face of the GOP, and I am not joking!

https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/02/06/former-nazi-party-leader-gop-nominee/

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In 2018, American politics entered a new phase when the sole Republican candidate for Illinois’s Third Congressional District seat in the state’s 20 March primary election turned out to be a former American Nazi Party leader, white supremacist, and outspoken Holocaust denier named Arthur Jones.

Running unopposed, Jones won the Republican nomination. More than 20,000 people voted for him, according to preliminary poll results.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, Jones’s extremist activities date back to the 1970s and include participating in neo-Nazi rallies and celebrations of Adolf Hitler’s birthday. His campaign web site contains literature dismissing the Holocaust as “the biggest, blackest lie in history.”

Jones was listed in 2008 as the leader of an Illinois chapter of the neo-Nazi American National Socialist Worker’s Party, the ADL has reported; he now leads a group called the America First Committee, whose membership is open only to “white American citizen[s] of European, non-Jewish descent.” On his web site Jones describes the Confederate flag as “a symbol of White pride and White resistance. It is the flag of a White counter revolution.”

His political platform calls for ending the United States’ involvement in foreign wars, sending American troops instead to defend the borders against illegal immigration, making English the official language, opposing the “homosexual agenda,” and replacing the federal income tax with a sales tax.