The Republican Party Is Trump’s Party In Full
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Steve King is an unapologetic white supremacist and Republicans don’t care:
But when Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, retweeted a Nazi sympathizer this week, the House Republican leadership and his fellow Iowa Republicans on Capitol Hill were silent.
Fringe candidates have always run in both parties. Marginalized or ignored, they almost always fade from view. But in the era of President Trump, at a time when white supremacists feel emboldened and an anti-immigrant fervor has gripped the Republican Party, Republican leaders are increasingly forced to make choices about how to react to hateful remarks.
In Mr. King’s case, his eight-term incumbency and his own history of racist comments — he once compared immigrants to dogs, not to mention the time he said they had “calves the size of cantaloupes” from hauling marijuana “across the desert” — seem to protect him. People are so used to him being offensive that they just shrug their shoulders and move on.
“We’ve gotten to the point with Congressman King that many people almost expect this sort of behavior out of him,” said Nick Ryan, a Republican strategist in Iowa who has been a vocal critic of Mr. King. “So when he does something that’s inappropriate or outlandish, many people in leadership have chosen to turn their heads the other way, because they don’t know how else to deal with him.”
Just some youthful indiscretions!
Anyway, Donald Trump capturing the Republican nomination is permanently inexplicable mystery.