Rep. Steve King Goes Full White Supremacist [VIDEO]

New York Magazine reports:

Congressman Steve King, long known for his bigoted anti-immigrant views, appears to have publicly embraced white nationalism. On Sunday afternoon, the Iowa Republican tweeted a cartoon endorsing Dutch right-wing, anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders, who recently referred to the Netherlands’ Moroccan population as “scum.”

The drawing depicts Wilders sticking his finger in a dam (labeled “Western Civilization”) overflowing with green fluid carrying Islam’s star-and-crescent symbol. In the background, bearded, knife-wielding men angrily look on. “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny,” King wrote. “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”

King appeared on CNN this morning to defend his tweet and things did not go well. Via Mediaite:



This morning, Chris Cuomo interviewed Representative Steve King on New Day to give the Iowa lawmaker a chance to clarify his comments from yesterday about how “we can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”

The representative didn’t exactly walk those comments back. Instead, he insisted he “meant exactly what [he] said,” then talked about “promoting the birth rate in America, being a “champion of Western civilization,” his annoyance over lack of “assimilation” from immigrants living in “enclaves,” and…just read on and watch above. There’s a lot.

“It seemed like … you were trying to say ‘someone else’s babies’ means ‘you’re either white or you’re not right,’ and as you know, that’s anathema to what America is all about,” Cuomo said. “Can we get agreement on that?”