So this is being reported over at Huffington Post right now. Apparently, Representative Steve King, (R) Iowa, gave an in depth interview with a far right nationalist organization when he visited Austria in August. And in it just went ahead and exposed his full, racist, white nationalist self. Not that we ever had any doubts. From the article
The eight-term congressman, up for re-election next month, talked to Caroline Sommerfeld of the Austrian far-right propaganda site Unzensuriert (which means “uncensored” in English). Sommerfeld is a prominent intellectual in Europe’s neo-fascist identitarian movement, which has deep connections to America’s so-called alt-right.
The interview, published in September, came to HuffPost’s attention this week. In his conversation with Sommerfeld, King discussed his belief in the superiority of European culture over others. He talked fearfully of falling fertility rates in the West and spoke at length about his belief that Europe and America are threatened by Muslim and Latino immigration.
Don’t you just love it when we are proved right all along? I know I do. I know, I know...we are smug and arrogant. But, it ain’t bragging when you are right, amIright?
The article goes on to highlight a discussion racist Steve had with the interviewer about the “great replacement”, the idea that the brown hoards are being brought over to America and Europe to “replace” (where have we heard recent mewling about “replacing us” from? Oh, yeah, the tiki boys march in Charlottsville) white civilization.
The idea of the Great Replacement is imagined most vividly in The Camp of the Saints, a stunningly racist 1973 novel by Jean Raspail that “reframes everything as the fight to death between races,” said Cécile Alduy, a professor of French at Stanford University and an expert on France’s far right. It describes the takeover of Europe by waves of immigrants that “wash ashore like the plague.”
In the interview, King said that he read the book and that it was “completely logical to me that this could come to pass.” He went on to describe how he believes George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist and bogeyman of the far right, might be footing the bill for the Great Replacement.
Yes, completely logical for someone who has no idea how logic works. And all totally disgusting and so totally now normal for the Republican party as whole. If someone else has posted about this, forgive me. I did a quick search and found nothing, so wrote this up to get it out there. I doubt it would make much difference in his deep red district, but maybe we can take some satisfaction that he is only up 10 points over his opponent rather than the 20 he beat his last one by.
This guy, and the whole Republican party is infected and pus ridden.
Please take someone with you to vote Democratic who did not vote in 2016. We have to rid ourselves of this infection controlling our government.