GOP Rep. Steve King: Nazi-linked party in Austria would be Republican in the US - Polidicks

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/413601-steve-king-members-of-nazi-linked-party-in-austria-would-be-republicans-if GOP Rep. Steve King (Iowa) on Saturday defended his association with a Nazi-linked group in Austria, telling The Washington Post that the group is “far right.” He made the comments about Austria’s Freedom Party, a group founded by a former Nazi SS officer and whose current leader was active in neo-Nazi circles, according to the paper. “If they were in America pushing the platform that they push, they would be Republicans,” King, who is known for his inflammatory statements about immigration, told the Post. King made comments lamenting the “decline” of Western civilization due to immigration in an August interview with Austria’s Freedom Party, according to the Post, asking: “What does this diversity bring that we don’t already have?” His comments to the Post came after 11 worshippers were killed in a shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, in what is the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history. King told the Post that he is not anti-Semitic and touted his support for Israel. The Iowa Republican, who is running for his ninth term, has repeatedly come under criticism for his comments about immigration and diversity.“Diversity is not our strength,” King tweeted last year. “Assimilation has become a dirty word to the multiculturalist Left.” Earlier this month, King tweeted support for a Toronto mayoral candidate who was fired by an "alt-right" media outlet after appearing on a podcast for the Daily Stormer, a prominent neo-Nazi website. He has also expressed support for far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders. And last year, King tweeted that "we can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies." King is expected to easily win reelection against Democratic challenger J.D. Scholten, though Scholten has out-fundraised King over the last two years. Other choice bits on Steve King: In 2006, King called for an electrified fence on the US border, noting that such fences were successful in containing livestock. In 2012, King compared immigrants to dogs. He has described undocumented immigrants as "drug mules" with "calves the size of cantaloupes", which he says is a result from them hauling drugs across the Southern border. In 2017, King said he wanted "an America so homogeneous that we look the same. King displayed the Confederate flag on his office desk, despite the fact that Iowa was part of the Union during the American Civil War. He removed it after a Confederate flag-waver shot two Iowa police officers.

Is he saying that like it's a good thing?

Well, that's certainly what you would like, you Nazi-loving white supremacist cunt. Also great for a Republican politician to be explicitly associating the Republican party with neo-Nazi ideals right before the election. Go on national television and say that, Steve, go on.

he is a nazi himself, so yes

He met with some members of that Austrian party during a trip to Holocaust sites. He later spoke to a far right paper with ties to that party called "Unzensuriert", which translates to "uncensored". I think he is. "I asked them what was worse, was it the Nazis or was it the Soviets?" he said. "And they don't know the answer to that because the Soviets occupied them longer, may have killed more of them, but it was over a longer period of time." On Thursday, King denounced the bombings but declined to retract his criticism of Soros or acknowledge a possible link to anti-Semitism. He went on to repeat unfounded allegations that Soros, as a young teenager in occupied Hungary, collaborated with authorities against his fellow Jews. "Me pointing out the activities of George Soros is a matter of pointing out the facts, and there is no reason to refrain from the real truth," he said. "I don't think about George Soros as a Jew. I think about him as an operator, a leftist operator that's been engaged in upsetting freedom and (being) more or less an enemy of conservatism."

Man, they're just straight up admitting it now. I know he's trying to say "They're not actually Nazis! They would be just viewed as Republicans here!" but he doesn't realise that the inverse could also be true (and is) and how bad that looks, especially to us folks abroad.

yes, because the GOP are nazis

I just read a great politico piece on him and how like trump we who understand this statement as "These nazis would be republicans" is merely us misinterpriting due to our percieved biases and someone from his home district would see this as "these right wing nazis are just down to earth country folk like us republicans." basically saying they are nazis over in leftist europe, but would be republicans here. this ignores the fact that they are avid white supremacists but that's our liberal logic fer ya!

Prove's Gillum's point quite well: the racists know he's racist.

I'd rather say these Republicans would be Nazis in WW2 Germany.

Yes. Hes saying "look, nazis are just far right people. They are us. Nazis arent bad because you and i are nazis!" Basically the psychopath is a nazi and is trying to normalize nazi ideology. This is a VERY bad route to go down.

Now I've never been to the 4th district or had the opportunity to really get to know anyone from there, but I am consistently surprised that those folks keep choosing to let Steve King of all people represent them. This isn't even the first time he's said this sort of stupid shit. If the polls are to be trusted, he's the only Republican who isn't likely to be unseated in the congressional midterms. What does that say about conservative politicians here?

But facism is socialism that's what all the enlighten trump supports tell me.