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Republicans Choose White Nationalism Over Christianity

To Carlson, Ingraham, keeping white majority more important than doing right thing

Manny Otiko
5 min readAug 20, 2021
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Sometimes stories write themselves. I’m tired of writing stories about GOP white nationalism, but as long as it keeps happening, I have to keep writing about it. And these days, the Republican Party has made white nationalism a central feature of its platform. It was always there, but with the advent of Trumpism, it’s become front and center. It’s also aggressively promoted by the GOP’s propaganda wing FOX News Channel and other right-wing outlets.

FOX News’ top-rated star Tucker Carlson is a neo-Nazi who hangs out with fascists such as Hungary’s Viktor Orban. Not a week goes by without Carlson repeating some form of white supremacist ideology or mainstreaming ideas straight from the pages of Stormfront and other hate sites.

And naturally, with the fall of Afghanistan and refugees struggling to get out of the country, Carlson and Laura Ingraham, the №2 white supremacist on FOX News, are going into…

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Manny Otiko
Manny Otiko

Written by Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him at @mannyotiko.bsky.social

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