Posted on Jul 28, 2022
Former Green Beret’s links to extremism surface in congressional primary
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A congressional candidate whose compelling personal story of military valor and unfathomable loss helped him win former President Donald Trump’s support has connections to right-wing extremists, including a campaign consultant who was a member of the Proud Boys.
Republican Joe Kent, who is challenging U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler in Washington state in the Aug. 2 primary, has also courted prominent white nationalists and posed recently for a photograph with a media personality who has previously described Adolf Hitler as a “complicated historical figure” who “many people misunderstand.”
Republican Joe Kent, who is challenging U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler in Washington state in the Aug. 2 primary, has also courted prominent white nationalists and posed recently for a photograph with a media personality who has previously described Adolf Hitler as a “complicated historical figure” who “many people misunderstand.”
Former Green Beret’s links to extremism surface in congressional primary
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Gonna offer a couple of thoughts here, SFC Kelly Fuerhoff:
1) There are lots of folks who have eagerly morphed "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" into "Six Degrees of Some Nuts" and delight in playing that game with folks they perceive to be political enemies.
2) Hitler really was a complicated figure, and most people don't really understand him or his rise to power. Heck, I'd even go so far as to say most people would rather *not* try to understand him, and find it far more comforting to view him as a force of evil than as a human being.
1) There are lots of folks who have eagerly morphed "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" into "Six Degrees of Some Nuts" and delight in playing that game with folks they perceive to be political enemies.
2) Hitler really was a complicated figure, and most people don't really understand him or his rise to power. Heck, I'd even go so far as to say most people would rather *not* try to understand him, and find it far more comforting to view him as a force of evil than as a human being.
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History is rife with politicians from both sides of the aisle with less than stellar moral character and intrinsically un-American values. It is a good thing for everyone that candidates are more stringently vetted --
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