Trump Is The Symptom Of A Far Worse Disease

Just a reminder this morning that the racism, hatred and bigotry of the GOP is the defining feature of the party in 2018 and of the people perfectly happy to vote for them, not an aberration or fluke. 

Arthur Jones — an outspoken Holocaust denier, activist anti-Semite and white supremacist — is poised to become the Republican nominee for an Illinois congressional seat representing parts of Chicago and nearby suburbs.

“Well first of all, I’m running for Congress not the chancellor of Germany. All right. To me the Holocaust is what I said it is: It’s an international extortion racket,” Jones told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Indeed, Jones’ website for his latest congressional run includes a section titled “The ‘Holocaust Racket’” where he calls the genocide carried out by the German Nazi regime and collaborators in other nations “the biggest blackest lie in history.”

Jones, 70, a retired insurance agent who lives in suburban Lyons, has unsuccessfully run for elected offices in the Chicago area and Milwaukee since the 1970s.

He ran for Milwaukee mayor in 1976 and 13th Ward alderman on Chicago’s Southwest Side in 1987.

Since the 1990s to 2016, Jones has jumped in the GOP 3rd Congressional District primary seven times, never even close to becoming a viable contender.

The outcome will be different for Jones in the Illinois primary on March 20, 2018.

To Jones’ own amazement, he is the only one on the Republican ballot.

No more "This isn't America, this isn't us" garbage.  This is exactly how America has worked for 400 years, and only through taking power away from the racists and the bigots does the country grudgingly improve.

Any Republican in Chicago could have run against Arthur Jones.  Nobody chose to.  Not this year.   Not that the seat was even in trouble as Democrat Dan Lipinski has represented the 3rd since 2013, the last time a Republican won in this district was literally before I was born.

But Jones is the GOP candidate.  He represents the Republican party there by choice.

That's who the GOP is in 2018.  Trump was the outcome, not the cause.