Steve King broke the first rule of White Club

When [HASH]IowaRepublicanCongressman Steve King lamented that language like “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization” had “become offensive,” [HASH]GOPLeaders like [HASH]SenateMajorityLeader Mitch McConnell and [HASH]HouseMinorityLeader Kevin McCarthy appeared horrified.

But if they were shocked—SHOCKED!—to find Steve King’s racism going on in their [HASH]RepublicanParty, they shouldn’t have been. King, after all, has a long history of incendiary rhetoric aimed at [HASH]AfricanAmericans, [HASH]Latinos, and other minorities. When he wasn’t warning about drug-toting, undocumented immigrants with calves the size of cantaloupes, Rep. King was raising red flags about the impossibility of restoring “our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” On July 6, 2017, he asked if “we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it.”