Running On Racism: Far-Right Congressional Candidates in the 2020 Elections

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Interesting article about Far-Right candidates in 2020 elections.

Since the earliest days of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has emboldened white nationalists, conspiracy-mongers, militia groups, and other far-right extremists to step out from the shadows and into the mainstream. These bad political actors have been welcomed by Trump’s Republican Party and have found jobs in Trump’s White House. In turn, elected officials in federal, state, and local seats have responded by increasingly embracing racist, misogynistic, and Islamophobic policies.

Under Trump, these extremists have steadily built political power within the Republican Party, and in the 2020 general elections, a number of them are running for office up and down the ballot. While the far-right won’t win every seat in 2020, its influence on American politics is growing. Ideologically, that influence moves the Overton window—the range of ideas and policies the American public finds politically acceptable—further to the right. Such a shift makes way for increasingly extreme ideas and rhetoric in U.S politics, policies and discourse.

Running on Racism: Far-Right Congressional Candidates in the 2020 Elections, and Those Who Lean That Way | Right Wing Watch

This report examines the American far-right’s efforts to build political power within the Republican Party and support extremist candidates who are running for U.S. Congress in 2020, including an analysis of the current makeup of far-right figures in Congress and the field of candidates who have...

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The American voters are going to wipe that slate clean. Then they can start over.