Republican Leaders Silent Full Day After Congressman Retweets Neo-Nazi - Talking Points Memo
Source: TPM
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) retweeted a neo-Nazi on Tuesday morning. He has faced no consequences for the tweet, and the leaders of his party have so far remained silent.
Europe is waking up
Will America
in time? https://t.co/GqZ3E1lCyh
Steve King (@SteveKingIA) June 12, 2018
Mark Collett, whom King retweeted, isnt quiet about his beliefs. According to HuffPost, hes called himself a Nazi sympathizer, expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler and was the subject of the 2002 documentary Young, Nazi and Proud.
A year ago, he joined former KKK grand wizard David Duke for an hour-long discussion on, per Dukes website, the massive violence that continues to be inflicted on the world by the Jewish dominated left.
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IronLionZion
(45,491 posts)maxrandb
(15,345 posts)Steve King is elected in Iowa, because Steve King IS Iowa.
murielm99
(30,754 posts)He reflects his district, not everyone in the entire state.
atreides1
(16,087 posts)Could it be that the people in his district are just like him, only they're too chicken shit to show their true colors in public!
A Republican Congressional district populated by KKK/Neo-Nazi scum of the earth...love King for making their views known to the rest of the country...but lack the courage to come out of the closet they hide in!!!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)sad to witness their abject cowardice to stand for what is right and decent.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)To say nothing is to acquiesce.
underpants
(182,861 posts)Sorry I don't compartmentalize them as alt-right white supremacists neo-Confederates etc. - they are Nazis.
angrychair
(8,729 posts)Its not a bug with the GOP but a feature.
keithbvadu2
(36,865 posts)Trump "emboldened" the Nazis
America fought a war against the Nazis and supposedly won.
Yet here they are marching to "take back America".
" Michael Von Kotch, a Pennsylvania resident who called himself a Nazi, said the rally made him "proud to be white."
He said that he's long held white supremacist views and that Trump's election has "emboldened" him and the members of his own Nazi group. "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fights-in-advance-of-saturday-protest-in-charlottesville/2017/08/12/155fb636-7f13-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.b54a0162fe07
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,189 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,027 posts)CrispyQ
(36,492 posts)from the parched, southern states moving to the northern states, will we treat them any better? There are too many people on the planet & climate change is going to make that even more apparent.
riversedge
(70,270 posts)He is not going to change when his buddies pat him on his back.
..............The amplification of a neo-Nazi is the latest in a years-long stream of similar actions from the Iowa congressman. In December, he tweeted Diversity is not our strength and attributed a quote to the right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban: Mixing cultures will not lead to a higher quality of life but a lower one. Following President Donald Trumps January State of the Union address, King told TPM the Congressional Black Caucus took a knee nearly all night.
In March of last year, King was able to garner a rare response from his Republican colleagues when he tweeted [Anti-muslim Dutch politician Geert] Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We cant restore our civilization with somebody
I dont think that statement reflects what is special about this country, Speaker Ryan responded the following night in an interview with Fox News Brett Baier. He added, though: I would like to think and I havent spoke to Steve about this I would like to think he misspoke, and it wasnt meant the way it sounds, and I hope hes clarified that.
Nope: Hours earlier, King had stood by his comments in an interview with CNN.
Three days later, King told The Hill: My colleagues have generally been coming by and patting me on the back. And a surprising number have said that they pray for me. And, meaning they support me and they agree with me, a surprising number. ..........................