For an example, look no further than Moms for Liberty. Still, despite Robinson’s explanation, it’s pretty hard to justify quoting Hitler in anything other than historical context. He also previously said that communism is a greater threat to the world than Nazism was. A deep dive by Talking Points Memo into the past seven years of Robinson’s Facebook activity also found that he shared conspiracy theories, 2020 election falsehoods, and even Holocaust denialism. Robinson, who took office in 2021, has a long history of spreading aggressively antisemitic, anti-Black, and homophobic rhetoric online. But you would be forgiven for thinking that maybe he really did suggest giving Hitler another look. It makes sense that Robinson would condemn leftist revolutionaries such as Mao, Stalin, Castro, and Pol Pot.

“It’s time for us to start teaching our children about the dirty, despicable, awful things that those communist and socialist despots did in our history.” ⁰⁰Only Lying Leftists would take a speech DENOUNCING dictators, communists, and socialists and try to make it seem like I… /y4YPwZSvMV- Mark Robinson July 5, 2023

Just two weeks ago, he appeared at a religious-right activist conference where he asserted that Christianity had “formed the soul of this country” and cried that “the time for Christians to rise is now.”Įither Hawley (or his staff) didn’t know that Henry never actually said the quote (and they didn’t bother to think more than five seconds about the basic logic behind it), or Hawley willfully misquoted Henry and even knew where the quote came from and was happy to do so. Beyond its yearning for America to be a Christian nation, it has decried “race mixing in army” and made a donation pitch to readers by whipping up fears about “the conspiracy to mongrelize white America lies in the powerful, wealthy Jewish organizations.”īesides either the stupidity or malice behind the tweet, the core message is not an aberration for Hawley. history at Williamette University, pointed out, The Virginian is certainly not the kind of magazine you’d want to be citing from.

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