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Thursday, March 22nd, 2018

20,000 Republicans just voted for an actual Nazi

Author:     JOSH ISRAEL
Source:     Think Progress
Publication Date:     MAR 21, 2018, 9:26 AM
 Link: 20,000 Republicans just voted for an actual Nazi
Stephan:   Facts. That is what I care about. And the facts are telling me the problem with America's democracy is that a large percentage of Americans don't actually like democracy, as the previous report showed. Oh, they say they do, they wrap themselves in the flag and wave their Bibles and their guns. But when you get to the licklog, and the privacy of the voting booth here's the truth.

GOP House Nominee Arthur Jones speaking at the Aryan Nations 2014 world congress. Credit: Jones campaign website

The former head of the American Nazi Party ran for the Republican nomination of Congress in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District. No Republican stepped up to oppose him.

On Tuesday, despite his vocal Holocaust denial, his anti-Semitic rhetoric, and his white supremacist views, 20,339 Illinois Republicans, according to preliminary totals, cast their ballots for Arthur Jones.

Jones’ Nazi-sympathies were not a secret going into election day. His campaign website features a slideshow of pictures of him speaking at white nationalist events. He is a perennial candidate who has previously run for U.S. House, Chicago alderman, and mayor of Chicago, and even mayor of Milwaukee. Chicagomedia extensively covered the race. The Anti-Defamation League warned voters of his record. The chairman of Illinois Republican Party even disavowed him, saying “The Illinois Republican Party and our country have no place for Nazis like Arthur Jones. We strongly oppose his racist views and his candidacy for any public office, including the 3rd Congressional District.”

Still, a stunning portion […]

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