Maine House special election candidate has made racist and misogynist posts

Last week, Thomas White won the Republican Party’s nomination for the special election in House District 124, which includes parts of Bangor and Orono. White, a recent graduate of Maine Maritime Academy, is running for office for the first time but he isn’t new to politics. He has been an early and outspoken supporter of candidate and President Donald Trump.

White seems to have internalized some of Trump’s most vicious rhetoric, and in some cases has taken it a step farther. Screenshots of posts he has made to Facebook over the past few years show him using caustic language to attack some of the president and the alt-right’s favorite targets.

Last year White shared a post calling the #metoo movement “the weaponization of victimhood,” comparing it to the Salem Witch Trials. He blamed the allegations of sexual assault leveled against then-Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh on “the mob mentality of the left” and called Kavanaugh’s accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, “a [sic] emotionally unstable woman.”

Feminism is a common topic for White, who has shared several posts attacking feminist beliefs, including questioning the manhood of men who consider themselves feminists or support progressive politicians. In July of last year he shared a graphic criticizing women who have abortions for “escaping the consequences of your choices by taking all choices away from another human being.”



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