King may be the GOP's loudest bigot this side of Donald Trump, but his defeat, should it come to pass, would still fail to address the more fixable problem of loud, outlandishly bigoted members who won’t stop saying bigoted things to the press
Rep. Steve King. Photo: Joshua Lott/Getty Images Steve King’s political career seems to be on a precipice, with perhaps less support than ever and a re-election campaign looming.
The major takeaway from the Times profile and its fallout is that Republicans generally won’t rebuke one of their own for bigotry unless that person admits to being a bigot. Denying one’s biases while broadcasting one’s relationships with nonwhite people tends to be enough for plausible deniability.
This might be a surprising claim were Brooks’s record of making similar remarks not widely available. In 2011, he vowed to do “anything short of shooting [undocumented immigrants]” to prevent them from expanding their numbers on U.S. soil. In 2014, he accused the Democratic Party of waging a “war on whites,” adding that “the way in which they’re launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else.
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