Steve King's closing argument is this Gateway Pundit article asserting that there was only one Freedom Party member at his meeting in Austria, along with a Jew and some gays, and the Freedom Party was forced to be Nazis by Germany and were otherwise all nice people. Nothing on 🌽 
I've grown to admire @Scholten4Iowa's approach on King, which is to say "what does this have to do with Iowa, and why is the #2 agricultural district in the US represented by a man whose pet ideological projects make him too toxic to serve on the Farm Bill conference committee?"
Many longtime Republican voters in IA-4 don't appreciate how radical King has become. Telling farmers who voted for King seven times "you are a terrible person" is not a way to win their vote (though it would be a winning fundraising strategy, which is part of the problem).
This line of thinking, if we can accept it, is an important clue about how to defeat Trump. You can't tell sixty million voters they are bad people. Give them an off-ramp that leads towards something different, and show them how Trump's policies are hurting them in concrete ways
There are lots of positive, likable qualities in both Steve King and Donald Trump, and failing to acknowledge them can lead us to choose unproductive lines of attack that strengthen our opponent's support ('basket of deplorables'). Empathy is an underrated political weapon!
