At a candidate forum sponsored by the Greater Des Moines Partnership, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) stood in front of a small group of people to take questions. A young man quoted from the final statement posted on Gab by the terrorist Robert Bowers, the man accused of murdering 11 Jewish parishioners at the Tree of Life Synagogue this past Saturday.
Man: The terrorist who committed this crime, he was quoted as saying,”They bring invaders in that kill our people, I can’t sit back and watch our people get slaughtered.” You, Steve King, have been quoted as saying, “We can’t restore our civilization with other people’s babies.”
It’s at this point that King gets super stressed-out super fast, telling the man he’s “crossed the line,” and calling him “an ambusher.” The man very calmly says he wanted to ask King to explain what distinguishes King’s ideology from Bowers’.
One of the reasons King gets so angry is that he cannot distinguish his ideology from that of Bowers. Just last year, he said, “[C]ulture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.” On his own Twitter feed.
The single difference between the two is that one is accused of being a mass murderer. King rambles on about how he has always been very pro-Israel, which is clearly just his way of saying he has Jewish friends and therefore isn’t anti-Semitic.
Of course, this is a big issue for King, who has recently explained that Austrian neo-Nazis would be his voting base if they lived in America. His bigoted ideology is so consuming that he has neglected his district and finds himself in a much tougher re-election race than anyone once thought possible. He’s also lost some of his big corporate donors, as they face growing pressure to disassociate themselves from his hate.
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