{"id":71744,"date":"2025-10-29T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=71744"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:44:10","slug":"unrepentant-nazis-in-the-news-story-no-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2025\/10\/29\/unrepentant-nazis-in-the-news-story-no-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrepentant Nazis in the News (Story No. 4)"},"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>Yep, it\u2019s <em>another<\/em> story about public figures defiantly defending and dismissing concerns about their embrace of Nazi symbols, Nazi ideology, and Nazi evil.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-71756\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/52\/2025\/10\/TaylorFlag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/15\/capitol-police-investigating-swastika-in-gop-congressional-office-00609704\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Story No. 4 is <em>not<\/em> the swastika-flag story involving Rep. Dave Taylor<\/a>, the first-term Republican from Ohio. That story certainly involves Nazi symbolism, and Taylor\u2019s flustered response was sometimes awkwardly defensive or dismissive, but \u2014 to his partial credit \u2014 Taylor never attempted to diminish the meaning of the Nazi symbol and he condemned that meaning without qualification.<\/p>\n<p>During an online video meeting including a staffer in Taylor\u2019s office, an American flag with the stripes altered to form a swastika was clearly visible hanging behind the staffer in his workspace:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am aware of an image that appears to depict a vile and deeply inappropriate symbol near an employee in my office,\u201d Taylor said in a statement. \u201cThe content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taylor said he \u201cimmediately\u201d directed a thorough investigation alongside the Capitol Police, adding, \u201cNo further comment will be provided until it has been completed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The flag was found inside Taylor\u2019s office in the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C., Tuesday afternoon, according to an office spokesperson. Taylor believes it is the result of \u201cfoul play or vandalism,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Taylor\u2019s inept response over the following days makes it difficult to praise him for how he handled this. He claimed that the flag was an \u201coptical illusion\u201d that his staffer didn\u2019t notice, and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlwt.com\/article\/rep-taylor-says-his-office-was-victim-of-ruse\/69081063\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">his office was the victim of a \u201cruse\u201d intended to make them look bad,<\/a> and those claims didn\u2019t hold up.<\/p>\n<p>But I respect that in all of that desperate flailing Taylor did not try to argue that a swastika <em>wasn\u2019t that bad<\/em>, or to characterize this as some kind of \u201cfree speech\u201d issue or \u201ccancel culture\u201d attack on MAGA conservatives\u2019 right to affirmative protection of their \u201cintellectual diversity\u201d or any of the other bogus nonsense that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2025\/10\/17\/young-republicans-cheer-for-racism-hitler-yes-actually\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">his fellow Republicans rolled out to defend the Nazi language and Nazi ideology casually tossed around by dozens of Young Republicans<\/a>. Nor did he respond with the winking, irony-poisoned, 4chan-style non-denials of the nihilists cranking out Nazi-style propaganda at the departments of Labor or Homeland Security or of the multiple Republican eminences smirking while sig-heiling on camera over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71609\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/52\/2025\/10\/AAWhyNazis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\"><\/p>\n<p>Dave Taylor is a proud Ohio Republican in the year of our Lord 2025 and that almost certainly means he is, at best, comfortable with white nationalist MAGA ideology and Steven Miller\u2019s agenda of ethnic cleansing and mass deportation of nonwhite Americans, immigrant and citizen alike. That is dangerously Nazi-adjacent, and Taylor is an oblivious frog in a pot of water that\u2019s getting hotter every day. But Taylor is not a Nazi. He does not want others to think that he might be a Nazi, and he certainly does not want to think of himself as one.<\/p>\n<p>So when Dave Taylor found out there was a swastika flag hanging in his Capitol Hill office, he tripped over himself to insist that he didn\u2019t know it was there, he didn\u2019t put it there, none of his people would ever have put it there on purpose, etc. He called it \u201cvile\u201d and condemned it \u201cin the strongest terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was, in short, <em>upset<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s good that he was upset. Taylor\u2019s response wasn\u2019t as thoughtful or introspective as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2025\/10\/22\/get-angry-stay-angry-do-better\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">the kind of remorseful anger we talked about last week<\/a> \u2014 the anger that leads to, and signals, actual repentance. He has put far more energy into avoiding and denying blame than he has into exploring what it was that made such a thing possible in his very own office, but at least he was genuinely recoiling from Nazi imagery and insisting that he didn\u2019t want anything to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Taylor was upset in a way that the Young Republicans and J.D. Vance and Paul Ingrassia and Graham Platner were <em>not<\/em> upset in any of the first three stories of unrepentant Nazis in the news.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us, at last, to Story No. 4, which involves a local Republican official who seems eerily, creepily, not-at-all upset to have learned that her husband is a straight-up, <em>Mein-Kampf<\/em>-celebrating, Hitler-admiring, <em>Nazi<\/em> Nazi.<\/p>\n<p>The headline for the local news report gets at that: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/2025\/10\/a-michigan-elected-official-is-married-to-a-neo-nazi-some-constituents-have-a-problem-with-that.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Michigan elected official is married to a neo-Nazi. Some constituents have a problem with that<\/a>.\u201d Two things are chilling in that headline and in that story. First, that \u201c<em>some<\/em> constituents have a problem with that,\u201d while some do not. And second that the Republican elected official in question, Maple Valley Township Treasurer Meghyn Booth, does <em>not<\/em> seem to have a problem with that, hardly at all.<\/p>\n<p>That local reporting is, itself, a bit uncanny, in that it outsources the identification of this as \u201ca problem\u201d to those constituents. The story relies on the creaky \u201ccritics say\u201d framework to inform us that some critics say Neo-Nazism is, in their view, <em>bad<\/em>. But, you know, opinions differ, and it\u2019s not the job of an objective reporter to take sides on whether or not a Nazi YouTuber\u2019s claim that Hitler \u201cbroke the chains of Jewish tyranny in Germany\u201d is accurate or true or good or right.<\/p>\n<p>This local reporting is also playing catch-up, since the outlet that broke this story from Michigan was a newspaper on the other side of the Atlantic. Jason Wilson had this story for <em>The Guardian<\/em> (UK) back in August, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/aug\/02\/christopher-booth-far-right-youtube-channel\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Unmasked: the man behind one of the fastest growing far-right YouTube channels<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Guardian has identified the self-described \u201cnational socialist\u201d behind an openly extremist YouTube channel that in just over two months has accumulated 50,000 subscribers, seen more than 2.3m views, and likely made thousands of dollars from YouTube\u2019s revenue-sharing monetization program.<\/p>\n<p>Johnathan Christopher \u201cChris\u201d Booth, 37, lives in the unincorporated community of Coral, a part of Maple Valley Township in Michigan\u2019s Montcalm county, and is married to a senior local Republican official.<\/p>\n<p>Booth has published more than 70 YouTube videos since May on his Shameless Sperg account, whose graphic design elements feature stylized SS bolts. Titles of his videos \u2013 generally a recording of him delivering his views direct to camera \u2013 include: \u201cWhy I Dislike Jews. It\u2019s not complicated\u201d, \u201cBlack Crimes Matter: Never Relax\u201d and \u201cJews and FBI hate you and your free speech.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Booth is married to Meghyn \u201cMeg\u201d Booth, the Republican treasurer of Maple Valley Township. Meg Booth has \u201cliked\u201d several posts with extremist themes on Chris Booth\u2019s Facebook account with her personal account. Chris Booth\u2019s Facebook page also features extensive racist propaganda along with iconography often employed by neo-Nazis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That article includes much more from Chris Booth\u2019s public videos, including his enthusiastic identification of himself as a \u201cfascist\u201d and a \u201cnational socialist,\u201d and his call for getting rid of every Black person in America.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Guardian<\/em> gave Meghyn Booth the opportunity to comment on her husband\u2019s Nazi video channel:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an email, Meg Booth appeared to repudiate her husband\u2019s views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not involved in my husband\u2019s content or political views, and I do not share or support any form of racism, antisemitism, or hate speech,\u201d she wrote, adding: \u201cMy values are my own and are grounded in respect, inclusion, and service to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meg Booth concluded: \u201cAs an elected official, I\u2019ve always acted independently, with integrity, and in line with the expectations of my office. I respectfully decline further comment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the same, creepily pro forma tone Meg Booth has used in responding to the concerns of her constituents and colleagues in local government. She insists, placidly, that she does not \u201ccondone\u201d her husband\u2019s views, but only condemns them in the most ethereal and abstract way.<\/p>\n<p>She is not <em>upset<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, she is not upset except in the way that J.D. Vance was upset when the Nazi and racist chats of the Young Republicans were made public \u2014 he was upset that others were upset by this. He was upset that liberals were attacking the good names of good Republican Americans over something as minor and frivolous as their open advocacy of segregation, white supremacy, tiered citizenship, ethnic hierarchy, ethnic cleansing, and Nazism.<\/p>\n<p>The way that Meg Booth is not upset is upsetting. It\u2019s unnerving. And it casts doubt on her claims that she does not share or condone her Nazi husband\u2019s views.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upsetting thing about all of these Nazis (yes, actually, not hyperbole Nazis) is that the Nazis and their supporters do not seem upset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":71609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Unrepentant Nazis in the News (Story No. 4)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The upsetting thing about all of these Nazis (yes, actually, not hyperbole Nazis) is that the Nazis and their supporters do not seem upset.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2025\/10\/29\/unrepentant-nazis-in-the-news-story-no-4\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Unrepentant Nazis in the News (Story No. 4)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The upsetting thing about all of these Nazis (yes, actually, not hyperbole Nazis) is that the Nazis and their supporters do not seem upset.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2025\/10\/29\/unrepentant-nazis-in-the-news-story-no-4\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"slacktivist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-10-29T19:44:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/52\/2025\/10\/AAWhyNazis.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"550\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"366\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Fred Clark\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Fred Clark\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2025\/10\/29\/unrepentant-nazis-in-the-news-story-no-4\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2025\/10\/29\/unrepentant-nazis-in-the-news-story-no-4\/\",\"name\":\"Unrepentant Nazis in the News (Story No. 4)\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-29T19:44:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-29T19:44:10+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#\/schema\/person\/32666545e535b697afb93d9848dcfc47\"},\"description\":\"The upsetting thing about all of these Nazis (yes, actually, not hyperbole Nazis) is that the Nazis and their supporters do not seem upset.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2025\/10\/29\/unrepentant-nazis-in-the-news-story-no-4\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2025\/10\/29\/unrepentant-nazis-in-the-news-story-no-4\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2025\/10\/29\/unrepentant-nazis-in-the-news-story-no-4\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Unrepentant Nazis in the News (Story No. 4)\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/\",\"name\":\"slacktivist\",\"description\":\"&quot;Test everything; 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