How a Nazi Made the Ballot in Illinois
The strange candidacy of Arthur Jones points to failures of democratic safeguards on every level.
The Holocaust denier who is running unopposed in the Illinois Republican primary for U.S. Congress doesn't describe himself as a Nazi. His party, however, does.
Arthur Jones now prefers the term “white racialist,” he told The Atlantic—and even if he loses in November, his ability to share his extremist views has already been buoyed by a series of dramatic failures that led him to the ballot in the first place, from a state party unable to recruit an alternative candidate in a highly partisan district, to voters signing ballot-access petitions without paying much attention.
In an interview, Jones said he believes that white people are more intelligent than black people. Two of his primary
