The good news is that Iowa congressman Steve King has heard your angry, thinking-face-emoji-laden reactions to his scorching take that America can't restore "our civilization" with "someone else's babies." The bad news is that instead of pretending to have a moral compass and apologizing for his comments, or at least mumbling some kind of halfhearted "clarification," King has decided to double way, way down.

In a fawning interview on something called Breitbart News Daily, King rambled about the need for European countries to defend their cultures by boosting their birth rates, like he was workshopping ideas for his next racist young adult dystopian fantasy novel, before continuing:

If I were going to change anything—first of all, there’s only 140 characters. So I really don’t know why people hyperventilate over a tweet. Are they willfully ignorant? But if I had room to add on, I would say, "You can’t rebuild your civilization with somebody else’s babies unless you adopt them and bring them into your homes and raise them as your own." And that’s the core of that tweet. They’re importing a different culture, a different civilization, and that culture and civilization—the imported one—rejects the host’s culture, and so they are supplanting Western civilization with Middle Eastern civilization. And I say...Western civilization is a superior civilization. It is the first world, by the way.

First of all, one of his interns needs to teach this man how to thread tweets. Second, this...is not remotely better! It's not just that I am an anti-immigrant xenophobe, you see. I'm an anti-immigrant xenophobe who ALSO believes in the inherent superiority of my gene pool. Glad we cleared that up.

Meanwhile, when asked on a local radio show about a Univision anchor's observation that America will one day be a majority-minority country, the congressman, for some godforsaken reason, took about ten seconds to go from zero to "race war":