GOP House hopeful Jim Russell praised racist practices, advocated eugenics in 2001 essay
GOP House hopeful Jim Russell praised racist practices, advocated eugenics in 2001 essay. A New York Republican hoping to displace the long-serving Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey will face an increasingly steep climb to electoral victory thanks to a revelation by Politico's Maggie Haberman, who dug up some of his published works and noted a number of distinctly racist elements in a 2001 piece published by the right-wing Occidental Quarterly.The Tea Party is just a bunch of concerned patriots? Patriots of what country...Germany during the Nazi era. There are surely some tea baggers who mean well and are not extreme right-wingers but they seem to have an awfully large contingent of racist and far Right extremists in their midst.
Jim Russell, who enjoys the support of his state's Republican Party and conservative establishment, has maintained a strongly anti-immigrant stance in his campaign against Lowey, who defeated him in 2008.
The same could be said of his 2001 essay for Occidental [PDF link], titled "The Western Contribution to World History," which advises parents to establish "appropriate ethnic boundaries" for their children, and criticizes the film "Save the Last Dance" for depicting an interracial relationship.
He also opined against the racial integration of public schools and praised two individuals for their antisemitic ideas on how to limit the spread of Jews.
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Russell even lauded some ideas behind the practice of eugenics, a radical ideology most commonly associated with Germany's Third Reich which seeks to preserve racial and ethnic purity.
In his essay, he also writes highly of the book, "The Camp of the Saints," a tome held dear by many white supremacists. First published in France in the mid-70s, "The Camp of the Saints" depicts a mass migration from India into Europe, resulting in a radically altered political reality.
Conservative Republicans Want To Cut Federal Spending But Have No Idea What Programs To Cut. Complaining is not a subsitute for having ideas.
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) chickens come home to roost -The senator voted against the auto-bailout, but attended a GM plant reopening ceremony. The workers were not amused. Corker thought the idea of helping GM through hard times was exactly like socialism and now he is trying to take credit for an aid package he voted against. Well, he is a conservative and that's what conservatives do.
The Tea Party movement has two defining traits: status anxiety and anarchism.
So who are these people and what do they want from us? A series of polls, as well as be-ins like Glenn Beck's Washington rally last month, have given us a picture of a movement predominated by middle-class, middle-aged white men angry about the expansion of government and hostile to societal change. But that profile could accurately describe the past several right-wing insurgencies, from the California tax revolt of the late 1970s to the Contract with America of 1994—not to mention the very Republican establishment that the Tea Party positions itself against. What's new and most distinctive about the Tea Party is its streak of anarchism—its antagonism toward any authority, its belligerent style of self-expression, and its lack of any coherent program or alternative to the policies it condemns.
In this sense, you might think of the Tea Party as the Right's version of the 1960s New Left. It's an unorganized and unorganizable community of people coming together to assert their individualism and subvert the established order. But where the New Left was young and looked forward to a new Aquarian age, the Tea Party is old and looks backward to a capitalist-constitutionalist paradise that, needless to say, never existed.
