Having repudiated Steve King, the GOP gives a pass to the greater menace
by Mary Sanchez, Tribune Content Agency
Jan 18, 2019
3 minutes
This week Republicans completed, with relative ease, what may be their least painful act of righting a wrong in 2019. They repudiated U.S. Rep. Steve King's repeated blathering about white supremacy.
The Iowan, in a New York Times interview, set things in motion by lamely wondering why terms like "white nationalist," "white supremacist" and "Western civilization" have negative connotations.
That's a thinly veiled way of saying: "Hey, I don't hate blacks and Latinos. I'm just proud of
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