The Biggest Bigots On the Ballot in 2018 ...And All Republicans

I have been saying that ever since _____ took office the bigots, haters, racists, misogynists, homophobes and, yes, child molesters, would come crawling out of the woodwork and into the light, emboldened by their Orange leader.

And here are some of them, thanks to RollingStone …

Joe Arpaio, running for US Senate from Arizona.

Arpaio, the former Maricopa County Sheriff, gained national notice when he instructed his officers to demand proof of citizenship from any person suspected of being undocumented.

When the courts ruled his idea unconstitutional—cuz it’s racial profiling—he kept doing it. And so, he was convicted of contempt of court in 2017, but then pardoned by _____ before he was even sentenced, and then said he was running for office.

John Fitzgerald, running for US Congress from California.

A rabid anti-Semite, Fitzgerald is a Holocaust-denier—six million Jews were not murdered in Nazi Germany—and believes 9/11 was a Jewish-orchestrated conspiracy. Amazingly enough, Fitzgerald received more than 36,000 votes in his California primary, earning a slot on the ballot in November. Since then, he’s been all over the media with his neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic rhetoric promising to expose “the truth about the Holocaust and how it’s an absolute fabricated lie.”

Seth Grossman, running for US Congress from New Jersey.

Grossman is a former city councilman and county freeholder from Atlantic City who believes that gay men should have been quarantined in the ‘80s and has called Islam “a cancer.” On Facebook, he’s shared posts by Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer, anti-Islam agitator Pamela Geller, alt-right poster boy Milo Yiannopoulos as well as racist memes, including one that suggested Arabs, like Obama, want to “move to your country, rape our women, bomb your buses, riot in your streets, and demand that you accept [their] religion.”

Arthur Jones, running for US Congress from Illinois.

Jones, a member of the American Nazi party, lost seven bids for Congress before finally securing the GOP nomination this year, after _____ became president. The Illinois state GOP worked to defeat him, but twenty-thousand Republicans voted for the man who called the Holocaust was “a greatly overblown nonevent.”

Steve King, running for US Congress from Iowa.

King—the incumbent and considered a shoo-in for an eighth term—has retweeted the thoughts of prominent bigots like Geert Wilders, Mark Collett and Viktor Orbán; he has proudly displayed a Confederate flag on his desk for years, has said white people have contributed more to civilization than any other “subgroup” in history, and has characterized immigrants having “calves the size of cantaloupes” from hauling drugs across the desert.

Paul Nehlen, running for US Congress from Wisconsin.

Nehlen describes himself as the “pro-White” congressional candidate and is a friend of ex-KKK Grand Wizard David Duke and Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin. He’s been permanently suspended by both Twitter—for racist “jokes”—and his views are so toxic that he’s not only been condemned by the state GOP and Paul Ryan—yes, Ryan actually spoke out against someone in his own party—whose seat he’s seeking.

Corey Stewart, running for US Senate from Virginia.

At the height of the debate over Confederate monuments last year, Stewart declared on Twitter, “Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don’t matter.” More recently, he’s asserted his disbelief “that the Civil War was ultimately fought over the issue of slavery.”

Russell Walker, running for US House from North Carolina.

Walker says that “God is a racist and a white supremacist” and that all Jewish people are descendants of Satan; he won the GOP primary and since then has appeared on the white supremacist Stormfront Action podcast where he used the N-word to call voters in his own district; he will face an African American minister in November general election.

On the upside, some of these racist, bigoted, homophobic, misogynistic asshats have already been defeated, like …

Nathan Larson ran for US Congress from Virginia.

Larson, a Libertarian, created a series of websites for likeminded pedophiles and involuntary celibates. His campaign manifesto envisioned a country where a “benevolent white supremacy” ruled, where incest and child pornography were legal, where the Violence Against Women Act was repealed and replaced by “a system that classifies women as property, initially of their fathers and later of their husbands.” Larson got less than two percent of the vote in the primary, but he’ll have a second shot when he appears on the general election ballot in November.

Patrick Little, ran for US Senate from California.

Little campaigned for the chance to challenge Dianne Feinstein under the slogan “Liberate the US from the Jewish Oligarchy.” His platform included a promise to have the United States formally declare the Holocaust “a Jewish war atrocity propaganda hoax that never happened.”

Roy Moore ran for US Senate in Alabama.

Moore, a chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court, tried, and failed to fight off criticism of his racist, anti-gay and transphobic views for years. His Senate bid was tanked by multiple credible accusations of sexual misconduct with underage girls.

So, you see, that while the racists and haters are feeling emboldened to step into the light, they are being defeated, though some have inched forward to the general Election in November.

All the more reason to register and vote, and tell everyone you know to register and vote. Vote out the GOP—whose mute indifference to _____ and these racists—has emboldened them to step forward.

Make it clear that this is not happening. This will not happen.