It’s funny how a few tweets can suddenly turn friends into a foe. Paul Nehlen, who should forever be known as, “The guy who got curb-stomped by Paul Ryan,” has now alienated his Breitbart/Bannon/TrumpTrain buddies by going full alt-right with a heaping serving of anti-Semitism to boot.
As Susan wrote, Steve Bannon sought to distance himself from Nehlen (as did former Twitter pals, many of whom have conveniently deleted tweets praising him before his anti-Semite explosion) despite sharing a stage with him just weeks ago in support of Roy Moore.
The reality is, Nehlen, a political loser, dealt a nearly 70 point loss to Ryan, didn’t just suddenly change. As The Washington Examiner pointed out in August, Nehlen was already letting his alt-right pants down:
Among the gild of creeps who promoted stomach-churning images of white nationalists gathering by the light of tiki torches in Charlottesville, Va. last Friday was one Paul Nehlen, the man running a longshot bid to challenge House Speaker Paul Ryan in the Republican primary for his congressional seat.
Nehlen retweeted an image of the rally’s organizers posted after the event that was captioned, “Huge success in Charlottesville. Tomorrow will be even better. #UniteTheRight.” He also retweeted a picture of the demonstration posted by alt-right organizer Jason Kessler captioned, “Incredible moment for white people who’ve had it up to here & aren’t going to take it anymore. Tomorrow we #UnitetheRight #Charlottesville.”
Not only that, Nehlen bought into the garbage #pizzagate conspiracy theory:
As if those tweets weren’t disgusting enough, Nehlen also said he believed in the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory that spread among the alt-right in an Aug. 3 “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit. The theory posited that prominent Democratic leaders were running a child sex ring out of the basement of a Washington, D.C. pizzeria. It was debunked thoroughly last year after a man stormed the restaurant with a rifle and fired shots.
Last but not least, Nehlen was happy to buy into the Seth Rich conspiracy, noted here when he tweeted out a story at the garbage site, Gateway Pundit:
Why Would Donna Brazile Be in Fear For Her Life if Seth Rich's Death Was Just a Random Late Night Mugging? https://t.co/h4xSKavi6x
— Paul Nehlen (@pnehlen) November 5, 2017
So don’t buy into all of the feigned outrage from people about Nehlen, behaving as though they’re “shocked” that Nehlen went full white nationalist. He was already there. He just wasn’t as open about it.
People didn’t care because Nehlen spent his time on Twitter bashing the “establishment globalist,” Paul Ryan. The TrumpTrain people ate it up and didn’t care about his pathetic views until it proved to be a source of discomfort for them to be associated with him.
Don’t let them pretend otherwise.
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