Charlottesville White Nationalist Elected to Local Republican Office

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  1. Fisherman's Worf

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    White Nationalist Who Marched In Charlottesville Elected To Local GOP Office
    James Allsup took part in the white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally last year.

    By Willa Frej

    White nationalist James Allsup is now an elected officer in the Republican Party of Washington state.

    Over the weekend, Allsup posted a Facebook photo showing a piece of paper confirming his election as the state GOP’s precinct committee officer for Precinct 129 in Whitman County, The Daily Beast first reported Tuesday. The paper also states there were “no challenges for the office.”

    A precinct committee officer is certainly not a high-level official, but Whitman County’s Facebook page calls PCOs “the backbone of the Republican Party.” They elect the Republican leadership in their counties, according to another Washington GOP county website.

    Allsup, who graduated from Washington State University in 2017, once served as chairman of the Washington College Republican Federation and was an adviser to the Students for Trump group on campus, according to his Facebook page.

    Perhaps more notably, Allsup is outspoken about his anti-immigration and anti-Semitic views. Videos on his YouTube page show that he marched in the “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August and attended a free speech rally in Washington, D.C., last year that featured speakers including white nationalist leader Richard Spencer.

    Allsup is also aligned with Identity Evropa, an American group that has been labeled a white supremacist organization by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

    He has worked to advance his agenda “through the infiltration of the Republican Party rather than by the radical, revolutionary action favored by vanguardist groups on the extreme fringe,” according to the SPLC.

    Last year Allsup told the white nationalist podcast “Fash the Nation” that a college student with “three or four fashy goy friends” could take over their College Republicans group and “move it to essentially being an alt-right club.” He also talked about forcing the “cucks” out of the GOP.

    He told Identity Evropa’s podcast last week that he expects the infiltration of mainstream politics by white nationalists to take a little time, but he’s confident they can make significant inroads.

    “You have a seat at the table,” he said. “And that’s the most important thing, getting that seat at the table, and you can get that seat at the table by, yes, showing up, yes, by bringing people in.”

    Allsup told HuffPost he wasn’t interested in discussing the matter further.

    But Keegan Hankes, senior research analyst at the SPLC, said, “Anytime that someone who holds extreme political positions has any foothold in mainstream politics, it’s a problem.”

    Allsup’s election to this kind of hyperlocal position is “disappointing but not surprising,” Hankes added. It has long been a strategy, he said, for white nationalists to seek power in uncontested elections. The SPLC counted eight white nationalists running for office this year, more than ever before.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...-local-gop-office_us_5b1698b7e4b074b9e089f1f7
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  2. matthunter

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    Like the Republican party HAS a backbone...
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    BUT IT'S RUDE TO CALL RIGHTIES RACIST YOU GUYZ :tbbs:
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  5. 14thDoctor

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    Just wait for people to start crying "This is not what America stands for! :weep: "

    Yeah, it really is. Own it. Address it. Fight it. :async:
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    Why won't leebruls be our friends? :cry:
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    He was the only one that ran. That's why he won. There's nothing more to it than that.
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    Why did no one run against this guy? Were they like "shit, we can't beat the white supremacist, why bother"?
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    Every person in the Republican party must immediately take to the streets to publicly condemn this man and distance themselves from him.

    Oh, sorry, my mistake. That rule only holds for Muslims.
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  11. Sean the Puritan

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    https://www.krem.com/article/news/l...ames-allsup-elected-to-position/293-561770470

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    There's an apathy, if not outright antipathy, to party politics that allows shit like this to happen, especially in noncompetitive areas. Not saying that the a(nti)pathy is not well-deserved, but it does mean that those with an interest in party politics need to be more careful so shit like this doesn't happen.
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  13. Fisherman's Worf

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    Interesting if this develops further.

    Also, I should have paid more attention to the county where this took place:

    .....
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    good point - if this guy ran unopposed and you don't like the outcome, then how can you (if you live there) bitch if you offered no opposition? :shrug:
    Let me guess - voter oppression? Russian collusion? Throw me a bone here folks!
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  15. 14thDoctor

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    It was an internal position with the Republican party, you imbecile. It was up to his fellow Republicans to oppose him, and his fellow Republicans failed to do so. :brood:
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    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    well I stand corrected. I would say write your local congressman about this.
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    That shit is Whitman County. :lol:
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    A state committeeman? Seriously dude?

    Whats your next "breaking" story? Bitching about a position in a Racoon Lodge?
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    Hmm. Odd that you went straight to a word that has "Coon" in it....

    :beck:

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    Racoon Lodge? That's a trigger word, racist! :brood:
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    damn I never read all the thread posts..........you beat me to the joke by about five minutes. :shakefist:
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    See, the obvious and easy response here would have been "I'm a Republican, but I don't care for white nationalists."

    Any reason you couldn't pull that off, buddy? :chris:
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