There is no purer product of the modern extremist Republican Party than Kris Kobach, Secretary of State and Republican of Kansas, which latter consideration ought to be enough for one ill-spent lifetime. But Kobach's talent for knuckling immigrant populations and suppressing votes has been the template for conservative political destruction in many Republican-controlled states.

It's here where we remind any readers who may have joined our program already in progress that the Republican Party is eager to replicate the wonders of Brownbackistan all over the country, so that those of us who missed the Pullman Strike, the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, the Cleveland Administration, and the Panics of 1819, 1837, 1873, and 1893 will no longer be deprived of that kind of political entertainment. Kobach is at the head of the class in the retrograde political and social policies of the current Republican Party, the one that created and thrived on all the forces that made President-Elect Donald Trump possible.

(By the way, am I alone in thinking that all this conservative agita about the terrible, unlikable, repulsive candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is an expression of profound anger that she was unable to get conservative politics off the hook for producing El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago? Why didn't the woman we've hated for 25 years kill our monster for us?)

Kobach's name has been floated for some position or another as part of the incoming administration. There's no question that the president-elect is sympatico with Kobach's attitudes toward immigration and the franchise. He was a proto-Trumpkin in these areas. And, of course, Kobach tends an interesting garden of exotic ideas that he has gathered from a number of different places including, it appears, the Serbia of the 1990s.

The good folks at Right Wing Watch passed along a recent interview in which Kobach warned the rest of us that, if we're not careful, all the white people will be sent marching into disintegration chambers.

"What protects us in America from any kind of ethnic cleansing is the rule of law, of course," Kobach responded. "And the rule of law used to be unassailable, used to be taken for granted in America. And now, of course, we have a president who disregards the law when it suits his interests. So, while I normally would answer that by saying, 'Steve, of course we have the rule of law, that could never happen in America,' I wonder what could happen. I still don't think it's going to happen in America, but I have to admit, things are strange and they are happening."

Yeah, you have a political career and that's strange and it's happening.

This well-tailored cornfield Milosevic is a slick young feller, that's certain. He's sure this won't happen, but, because the president used his executive powers in a way that Kobach and his many admirers didn't like, the president could be setting the stage for the immigrant hordes to engage in the ethnic cleansing of white people down the line. He's not saying it will happen, mind you. He's not even saying it's likely to happen. But, you know, just so we're careful.

This is the straight stuff, uncut white-nationalist fear-mongering of the high European school. And it is being preached from the highest reaches of conservative Republican politics by one of the party's true superstars. This isn't normalizing white-supremacy. This is white-supremacy as the coin of the realm, the basic root language of one of our two major political parties, and it has been for a very long time.

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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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