I know this will get me in Dutch with the various White Working Class whisperers in the elite political press, but I have come to the reluctant conclusion that the majority—nay, the overwhelming majority—of the voters in the Fourth Congressional District of Iowa is made up of a mixture of racists and morons. The proof is in the pudding or, more precisely, in the Congress. These rubes keep re-electing Steve King, and Steve King keeps saying things like this.

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Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. https://t.co/4nxLipafWO — Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 12, 2017

This is the most blatantly racist thing said out loud by a member of Congress in at least 50 years. It's no surprise to me, since I was on set with Chris Hayes and April Ryan at the Republican National Convention when King dropped this gem on the viewing public.

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(I thought Ms. Ryan was going to bludgeon him unconscious with a bottle of water.)

He won re-election last fall with 61 percent of the vote in his district. Economic insecurity certainly does express itself in interesting ways. I am also tired of institutions like The New York Times soft-pedalling outright bigotry by attributing sensible opposition to this poison to mushy entities like "critics say," or by calling what King said an "apparent endorsement" of Nazi-like principles he clearly endorses.

Seriously, what does he have to do for you people? Start wearing armbands?

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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