Paul Gosar was tied to a fundraiser for America First, an anti-LGBTQ, anti-Semitic hate group. The Republican party has done nothing to punish him for it. How extreme is the Republican party these days? So extreme that a GOP Congressman appearing at a fundraiser for a white supremacist group is met with total silence from the party leadership. While Marjorie Taylor Greene has been getting all the attention for her antics, Arizona Representative Paul Gosar has been largely sailing underneath the radar. Greene’s anti-Semitism and support for violence against Democrats forced House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy to strip her of her committee asssignments in February. Yet Gosar, who is every bit as extreme, has been left untouched. Gosar’s most recent stunt involves Nick Fuentes, head of America First, a white supremacist group. Fuentes, who is just 22, rose to prominence at the 2017 white supremacist march in Charlottesville. He has been increasing his influence ever since, first through YouTube (from which he was banned in 2020) and then through his podcasts. Fuentes is the leader of the Groypers, a loose-knit group described by the Anti-Defamanation League as attempting to normalize their white supremacist ideology “by aligning themselves with ‘Christianity’ and ‘traditional’ values osstensibly championed by the church.”
Fuentes doesn’t try to hide his hatreds. “The math doesn’t seem to add up there,” he has said in talking about the murder of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust. He has boasted that “white people wield the best racial slurs” and argued that “we want children to be happy and not on drugs, and that’s why we opposed mixed (race) marriages.” As for the increasing diversity of the country, Fuentes complained, “Does anybody believe that for five seconds, that the country getting less white and becoming non-majority white—does anybody think that will be an improvement?” Needless to say, Fuentes traffics in anti-LGBTQ hatred as well. Earlier this year, he went after Lil Nas X, using homophobic and racist slurs to encourage Black people and Republicans to bash the out rapper for his sexuality. On his podcast, he also slammed the GOP for not being homophobic enough, and called for them to stand “against the rainbow flag” if they’re actual conservatives.
via lqbtqnation: A GOP congressman has close ties to a white supremacist group. The party doesn’t care.
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