Normally, the prospect of a United States congressman springing to the defense of a white nationalist would be big news.
Stunning news.
Normally, it would be unthinkable for any elected official to come to the aid of an extremist who considered the Jan. 6 attack on the nation’s Capitol “awesome” – one who called on his followers that day to continue occupying the Capitol until the results of the election were overturned.
One who later proclaimed the attack that left five dead a “glorious day”.
But these are not normal times.
If they were, Rep. Paul Gosar long ago would have faced full-throated condemnation by his fellow Republicans.
Instead, they are silent and Gosar is facing the prospect of yet another landslide in this year’s election.
Gosar has long been known for camping out there on what used to be the party’s fringe. Used to be.
He’s the congressman who told us the 2017 “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., was really a left-wing plot masterminded by an Obama sympathizer to make Donald Trump look bad.
The congressman who promoted an astonishing number of baseless claims about a stolen election in 2020 – one who helped organize at least one “Stop the Steal” rally and helped lead the congressional drive to reject the election results from Arizona and other targeted states in order to deny Joe Biden the presidency.
Last May, Gosar distinguished himself as the keynote speaker at a white...
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