White supremacist Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), fresh off the news that he’ll face a Republican primary challenger next year, wondered aloud why being a white supremacist is such a bad thing. “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” he said. The interview is one of the few times King has discussed his embrace of white nationalism since HuffPost’s Chris Mathias outed his viewpoints during his 2018 campaign for re-election. The GOP was largely silent on King through 2018, until it was revealed he might lose to Democratic challenger J.D. Next year, King will face Iowa state Sen. Randy Feenstra in a race to represent Iowa’s 4th Congressional District in the House of Representatives.

Source: Huffington Post January 10, 2019 14:30 UTC