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Feb 26 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
This is from last June. This is the person who hosted the “America First” conference at which close Trump allies MTG, Gosar, and Wendy Rogers spoke. This is not complicated. It’s also not a new problem for the GOP.
This thread links to an excellent article on Fuentes’s Nazi proclivities written by @janecoaston in November of 2019.
If you want to get really old school with the “Nazi who is trying to take over the GOP” theme, may I introduce you to MAGA-Nazi Arthur Jones who won a GOP primary in Illinois recently?
Even older school here. The chair of the Oregon GOP in 1978 was an avid reader and collector of neo-Nazi and Holocaust denial literature.
In the mid-1960s Huss edited an “anti-communist” newspaper to which Illinois’s leading Nazi, Joseph Dilys, subscribed.
This trend of Nazis trying to worm their way deeper into the GOP and meeting with far too little opposition from either the top or the grassroots is something I’ve been tracking for a while now. It would be great if someone in the GOP was on this beat too.

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Feb 26
This is bad. Also, fun fact, Jared Taylor and his white nationalist friend James Edwards somehow got VIP tickets to Trump’s inauguration in 2017.
Receipts in this thread, where we also learn that both Eric and Don Jr appeared on the radio show of white nationalist James Edwards during the 2016 campaign.
This is why this matters.
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Feb 26
The loud, proud, and non-dogwhistled white nationalist segment of the GOP and the "conservative movement" is growing.
Don't forget this.
The direction of today's GOP was obvious in December 2017 to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention.
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Feb 25
Ditto to all of this.
To see supposed progressives echoing Putin's dopey "the Ukranians are Nazis" talking point was equally affecting, tho in a different sort of way.
These are the people who got out of Elizabethgrad, Ukraine (now called Kropyvnytskyi) in the 1890s.
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Feb 25
A group of conservative Oregonians called for a convoy of trucks to show up at the state capitol to enact a repeat of what happened in Ottawa. I stopped by to check it out. There were more pizzas than people. There were more people in Proud Boy regalia than there were trucks.
The sponsor was an offshoot of Timber Unity, the "grassroots" group that had organized a much larger and louder truck convoy in June 2019 that was part of the effort to squash a cap and trade bill. It was notable that the Proud Boy flag was displayed right next to the stage.
It basically felt like a very low energy and low attendance Trump rally. Tho this rendition of Trump’s theme song was pretty competent.
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Feb 23
Happy to see Cleon Skousen getting the negative attention he so deserves.
In 1998, very few Americans knew who Skousen was. Those that did, were likely to be reading material like this Oregon rag, that also contained advertisements for white supremacist CDs.
The person who we probably most have to "thank" for bringing Skousen back into our national discourse is Glenn Beck, who resuscitated that far right conspiracy crank during his Tea Party days.
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Feb 23
That Blake Masters video making the rounds in which he name checks the heroes of suburban American 13-year old Boy Scouts ca. 1964 (Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Norman Rockwell, Chuck Berry) reminded me of this moment in Reagan’s farewell address.
Today’s MAGA-candidates who “love America” while stoking vicious hatred of over half of their fellow Americans learned well from their “conservative” predecessors. They do it now with a grimace instead of Ron’s warm smile, but the message is similar.
I enjoyed Masters’s Mark Twain shout out as well, as if President “we’re gonna build a wall and Mexico will pay for it” isn’t a con man right out of Twain’s oeuvre.
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