While the civilized world was mourning the massacre of school children and their teachers on Tuesday evening, Rep. Paul Gosar was already up on his high horse, using the shooter to advance on two fronts in the far right’s culture wars.
Gosar announced to the world that the alleged shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was “a transsexual leftist illegal alien.”
Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar is known for his appeals and hat-tips to extremists, from hanging out with openly white nationalist bloggers to advertising his attendance at a far-right event that was to take place on Adolf Hitler’s birthday.
But even some of his supporters appeared surprised at a post Gosar made Tuesday on Gab and Wednesday on Twitter. Gosar posted a meme called “Dark MAGA” that has begun trending among far-right spaces, which contained an apparent reference to the Holocaust that’s popular among neo-Nazis.
The post shows Gosar’s face with a dark red filter. The text reads: “Remember when our government sent planes to Afghanistan and brought over 100,000 Afghans in less than a week? We have in the range of up to 40 million illegal aliens in our country. They can be deported by planes, trains and buses. We could easily deport 6 million each year.”
After the Arizona Mirrorinquired about the meme, it was taken down from Twitter and Gab, and the reference to 6 million was removed in a subsequent repost, though a spokesperson for Gosar denied that the post was intended to reference Dark MAGA.
Never heard of him. Sounds like he fits right in this thread tho!
Gosar won a fifth term in office last November in his Trump-friendly district. Millions of ad views didn’t translate into votes. Gosar crushed his Democratic opponent by almost 40 points.
Republican primary Debate in the CO 4 district that Boebert is running to. Candidates asked to raise their hands if they’ve been arrested - 6 of 9 raise hands, to applause. Trent Leisy, arrested for harassing a child, high fives Boebert and CO house gop leader Mike Lynch, who recently resigned after his DUI and gun charges became public.