The Trump Effect continues throughout the Republican Party all through the United States of America. There is no longer any shame in Republicans of every prejudicial stripe. That Arthur Jones will be the GOP candidate is probative.
The former head of the American Nazi Party ran for the Republican nomination of Congress in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District and won. ThinkProgress reported the following.
The former head of the American Nazi Party ran for the Republican nomination of Congress in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District. No Republican stepped up to oppose him.
On Tuesday, despite his vocal Holocaust denial, his anti-Semitic rhetoric, and his white supremacist views, 20,339 Illinois Republicans, according to preliminary totals, cast their ballots for Arthur Jones.
Jones’ Nazi-sympathies were not a secret going into election day. His campaign website features a slideshow of pictures of him speaking at white nationalist events. He is a perennial candidate who has previously run for U.S. House, Chicago alderman, and mayor of Chicago, and even mayor of Milwaukee. Chicago media extensively covered the race. The Anti-Defamation League warned voters of his record. The chairman of Illinois Republican Party even disavowed him, saying “The Illinois Republican Party and our country have no place for Nazis like Arthur Jones. We strongly oppose his racist views and his candidacy for any public office, including the 3rd Congressional District.”
Imagine, over 20,000 Republicans chose to vote this guy. Does this tell you something?