{"id":42237,"date":"2018-10-22T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=42237"},"modified":"2018-10-21T16:03:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T20:03:11","slug":"steve-king-can-explain-his-abortion-politics-in-14-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2018\/10\/22\/steve-king-can-explain-his-abortion-politics-in-14-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve King can explain his abortion politics in 14 words"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa likes to travel to Europe to fellowship with other far-right white ethnonationalists. While over there yet again this summer he gave a long interview with a far-right website. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/iowa-rep-steve-king-austria-white-nationalist_us_5bca4851e4b0a8f17eec6001\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rep. Steve King Goes Full White Nationalist In Interview With Austrian Site<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0Christopher Mathias and Nick Robins-Early report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/6\/28\/17506880\/steve-king-twitter-racism-congress-republicans\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steve King is enthusiastically racist<\/a>. This is the same guy who has repeatedly retweeted white nationalist propaganda from straight-up neo-Nazi websites like Stormfront and Vdare. Because he liked what they said. And how did he know what they were saying? Because Steve King <em>reads<\/em> those sites. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/ez8a44\/a-short-history-of-congressman-steve-king-saying-racist-shit\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">King has been like this for a very long time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why no one was surprised this past week when King chose to wade in to \u2014 of all things \u2014 the mayoral election in Toronto. Why is a congressman from Iowa weighing in on local politics in another country? Because there\u2019s an outright white nationalist running for mayor in Toronto, and wherever an explicit white nationalist is running for office \u2014 in the U.S., in Canada, in Austria or France \u2014 Steve King feels compelled to lend his support.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you\u2019re thinking \u201cwhite nationalist\u201d is hyperbole. Nah. Toronto mayor wanna-be Faith Goldy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/a23981309\/steve-king-endorsed-a-white-supremacist-political-candidate\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">as Gabrielle Bruny explains<\/a>, is: \u201cnot just your typical dog whistling far-righter. She recited an infamous white supremacist slogan on a podcast, she gave an interview to the Daily Stormer, and she attended the Unite the Right Rally in\u00a0Charlottesville.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steve King loves all of that:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Faith Goldy, an excellent candidate for Toronto mayor, pro Rule of Law, pro Make Canada Safe Again, pro balanced budget, &amp;\u2026BEST of all, Pro Western Civilization and a fighter for our values. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaithGoldy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@FaithGoldy<\/a> will not be silenced. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uqkeaUjm7i\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/uqkeaUjm7i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve King (@SteveKingIA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveKingIA\/status\/1052390445735706624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t need a racist decoder ring to understand what King is saying there with \u201csafe\u201d or \u201cWestern Civilization\u201d or \u201cour.\u201d He means \u201cwhite,\u201d \u201cwhite,\u201d and \u201cwhite.\u201d Everybody in Iowa knows this is what Steve King is saying \u2014 what he is <em>always<\/em> saying, no matter what other topic he\u2019s asked about or ought to be addressing instead.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/opinion\/editorials\/2018\/10\/13\/register-endorsements-congress-gop-failed-govern-democrats-finkenauer-axne-loebsack-scholten\/1594065002\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Iowa\u2019s <em>Des Moines Register<\/em> is endorsing his opponent<\/a> in November:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This one\u2019s a no-brainer for any Iowan who has cringed at eight-term incumbent King\u2019s increasing obsession with being a cultural provocateur.\u00a0In his almost 16 years in Congress, King has passed exactly one bill as primary sponsor, redesignating a post office. He won\u2019t debate his opponent and rarely holds public town halls.\u00a0Instead, he spends his time meeting with fascist leaders in Europe and retweeting neo-Nazis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2018\/10\/04\/iowa-rep-steve-king-election-challenge-democrat-scholten-republican-donald-trump\/1485296002\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">former Sioux City Explorers pitcher J.D. Scholten<\/a> has raised a ton of money to challenge King\u2019s complacent incumbency. It\u2019s why the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/a23471864\/devin-nunes-family-farm-iowa-california\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">dairy farmers in King\u2019s Iowa district are sick to death of his immigrant-bashing uselessness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s why <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/iowa-republicans-steve-king-racist-rhetoric-jd-scholten-3e4b4c9e1bce\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">even the anti-abortion white evangelicals whose support has given King eight terms in Congress are starting to question whether they can continue to overlook his ferocious racism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Baart said she previously voted for King in part over his anti-abortion stances and \u201ctraditional\u201d family values. \u201cI didn\u2019t really think, I voted straight ticket Republican,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s what I was told to do and that\u2019s what I was told a good Christian did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This time around, though, Baart plans to cast her vote against the sitting congressman, even if others in her religious community won\u2019t do the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Evangelicals] don\u2019t want their traditional values of two kids and a white picket fence and a dog challenged,\u201d she said. \u201cThe means justify the ends in their minds as long as we\u2019re going to elect somebody who\u2019s going to vote against LGBT rights and is pro-life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very Nice People like the white evangelical woman quoted there had previously supported Steve King because he said all the same things they did about abortion. King\u2019s ardent white nationalism \u2014 the stuff that made Klansman\u00a0<em>David Duke<\/em> shout \u201cGod bless Steve King!\u201d \u2014 might have made some of those voters uncomfortable, but they were able to overlook that as long as he was running against a baby-killing Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>That is, after all, the purpose and function of single-issue abortion-is-murder-heck-it\u2019s-the-<em>Holocaust-<\/em>no-wait-it\u2019s-<em>worse<\/em>-than-the-Holocaust\u00a0politics. It\u2019s designed to make otherwise Very Nice People overlook all sorts of other very bad things and hold their noses to vote for people like Steve King.<\/p>\n<p>Those VNP always want others to know that their consistent, unquestionable support for people like King doesn\u2019t necessarily mean they approve of those other things King says. But they have to overlook all of that \u2014 they <em>have<\/em> to \u2014 because of abortion-is-murderism. For those voters, these two things \u2014 Steve King\u2019s anti-abortionism and Steve King\u2019s white nationalist racism \u2014 are separate and distinct.<\/p>\n<p>But for Steve King himself, these two things are not separate and they cannot be separated. For King, anti-abortionism is a necessary complement to white nationalist racism. It\u2019s an expression of those 14 words that Faith Goldy recited, thereby earning King\u2019s endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>King explains this in that Austrian interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>King\u2019s conversation with Sommerfeld largely revolves around the paranoid idea of the Great Replacement \u2014 the belief that mass migration, particularly from Muslim-majority countries, is an extinction-level event for white European culture and identity. Or as he put it in the interview, a \u201cslow-motion cultural suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-42246\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/52\/2018\/10\/989332f7d74f3eb00e3e303f683d5e7281ce042c-194x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\">\u201cThe U.S. subtracts from its population a million of our babies in the form of abortion,\u201d King said. \u201cWe add to our population approximately 1.8 million of \u2018somebody else\u2019s babies\u2019 who are raised in another culture before they get to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sommerfeld responded, \u201cThat\u2019s what we call the Great Replacement.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The idea of the Great Replacement is imagined most vividly in <em>The\u00a0Camp of the Saints,<\/em> a stunningly racist 1973 novel by Jean Raspail that \u201creframes everything as the fight to death between races,\u201d said C\u00e9cile Alduy, a professor of French at Stanford University and an expert on France\u2019s far right. It describes the takeover of Europe by waves of immigrants that \u201cwash ashore like the plague.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, King said that he read the book and that it was \u201ccompletely logical to me that this could come to pass.\u201d He went on to describe how he believes George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist and bogeyman of the far right, might be footing the bill for the Great Replacement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Steve King is not pro-life, he\u2019s pro-<em>white<\/em>. He\u2019s not anti-abortion, just pro-natal \u2014 but only for his own \u201cwhite race\u201d (Soros and other Jews <em>not<\/em> included). He doesn\u2019t care if non-white people have abortions. Heck, he\u2019d make it <em>mandatory<\/em> if he could \u2014 all the better to stave off the Great Replacement he obsessively fears.<\/p>\n<p>But Very Nice Christians will vote for Steve King, again, in November. And they\u2019ll explain to you that this is because of Jesus.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Steve King himself, these two things are not separate and they cannot be separated. 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A former managing editor of Prism magazine, Fred worked in the parachurch nonprofit world for a decade and then for a decade in the newspaper biz. He began blogging in 2002. In 2003 he began writing a review of the best-selling Left Behind series. Eight years later he still hasn\u2019t finished reviewing the second book of that series and the experience has left him a broken shell of a man. Fred knows the difference between the possessive \u201cits\u201d and the contraction \u201cit\u2019s,\u201d and he is acutely bothered when others mistakenly confuse the two, yet he himself just kind of instinctively types the apostrophe whether or not it belongs there. Some feel this is his greatest hypocrisy, but those who know him better know better. He\u2019s guilty of much greater hypocrisies. Jesus loves Fred far more than Fred loves Jesus, but he at least has the decency to recognize the unfairness of that lopsided relationship and he has long wished that he were better at maybe kind of sort of doing something more to correct that some day. A Baptist, an amateur, a Gen-Xer, a Gemini and a Mets fan, Fred lives in Southeastern Pennsylvania with his wife and two teenage daughters. 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