Paul Nehlen is trying to flank Paul Ryan from the right in Wisconsin’s 1st district, his second attempt to unseat the House speaker. Nehlen is a Breitbart favorite, appearing on Steve Bannon’s Sirius XM radio show, endorsed by Breitbart favorites like Ann Coulter and being featured and promoted in dozens of articles on the racist, conspiracy-heavy website run by Steve Bannon.
Nehlen appeared on Twitter to promote a book he’s reading:
As Jake Tapper noted, this book was written by an “academic” in the Neo-Nazi movement:
Nehlen rightly suffered widespread criticism for promoting the book. Instead of removing the post and apologizing, he doubled-down on his Neo-Nazi rhetoric.
No need to share anymore of this guy’s racist crap, you get the picture. But, let’s take a look at some of the reactions to his racist rant, starting with Minnesota’s Deputy Director of Public Affairs (a Republican):
Of course, Wisconsin voters have an alternative in 2018: Democrat Randy Bryce is working hard to mount a serious challenge to Paul Ryan. CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT HOW TO GET INVOLVED IN HIS CAMPAIGN.
Wednesday, Dec 27, 2017 · 9:00:05 PM +00:00
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Jen Hayden
Well, apparently Nehlen’s overt anti-Semitism is a bridge too far for Bannon and Breitbart, who have now allegedly declared Nehlen “dead to us.” From CNN:
Nehlen, who previously published material on Breitbart, has seen his author page scrubbed entirely from the far-right website. Moreover, Joel Pollak, a senior editor at Breitbart, publicly denounced Nehlen on Twitter.
"We don't support him," Pollak tweeted late Tuesday night, adding that Nehlen had "disqualified" himself.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Breitbart had not denounced Nehlen on its website. A Google search returned no articles this week about Nehlen's latest tweets or statements.
They just “fixed the glitch” and scrubbed all mention of Nehlen and their support of him in recent years.