Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar gets chummy with Nazi-loving, Holocaust-denying website ... again

The author and poet Maya Angelou once said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

The voters of Arizona’s 9th congressional district know who U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar is.

He has shown them many, many times. They must believe him.

Even worse, they must agree with him.

So when Gosar does something Gosar-like, something that would anger or horrify, or both, individuals in other districts, Gosar’s constituents … yawn. Or worse, cheer.

(At least if responses I receive are any indication.)

Gosar repeatedly panders to prejudice

This time around, as reported by Media Matters, Gosar’s official House.gov newsletter posted material from an extremist website that in the past has praised Hitler and called the Holocaust “the Holohoax.”

It’s nothing new.

Not long ago it was reported that two of Gosar’s staff members had links to white supremacist Nick Fuentes.Gosar has appeared at an event organized by Fuentes and has publicly praised and defended him.

Just as Gosar and fellow Arizona Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs were among 26 members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee who refused to sign a pledge denouncing “white nationalism and white supremacy.”

In fact, Media Matters last year published an article listing more than 30 times Gosar had endorsed or promoted antisemitic media outlets.How bad are these outlets?

Gosar isn't the problem. They are

By way of example, one of them, Daily Veracity, called the impeachment of Donald Trump “The Jew Coup” and has pushed the racist Great Replacement theory, which claims that minority immigrants are “pouring into the country and having children” to replace white people.

Gosar is an embarrassment. He’s a problem.

But he is not the problem.

His district covers much of western Arizona.

The fact that Gosar is comfortable using his official House newsletter to tacitly (or not so tacitly) endorse racist, antisemitic, white nationalist websites tells you all you need to know about how comfortable the congressman is with his bigotry.

Even worse, it tells you how comfortable Republican voters in his district are with his bigotry.

Or their own.

Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.

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