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Even if you hate Maddow, this is must-see reporting IMHO:
She goes on to talk about Doug Mastriano in detail and lifts the curtain on the resurgence of this racist hate-based ideology. I'll add clips as soon as they are up. This is beyond disgusting and now MAGA idiots are embracing it. Republican Jews are taking notice, as it seems the pro-Israel and ally to the Jewish Faith and Jewish people Republican Party moves to a stance that would decimate that relationship. Christo-Fascism is real, people, open your eyes.
Republican Jews call on party’s nominee for Pennsylvania governor to stop using Gab
Far-right candidate Doug Mastriano criticized for promoting campaign using social media network that hosts extremists, rampant antisemitism
JTA — The Republican Jewish Coalition has joined the chorus calling on Pennsylvania’s far-right Republican gubernatorial candidate to stop promoting his campaign on Gab, a social media network favored by extremists.
Doug Mastriano has 38,000 followers on Gab, a self-proclaimed “free speech” platform that hosts content prohibited on more mainstream sites. It grew in popularity after Twitter and other networks cracked down on extremists in recent years. Mastriano has also reportedly paid for “campaign consulting,” which makes new Gab users automatically follow him.
Gab is well known as a hospitable place for antisemitic, racist and anti-LGBTQ content. Gab’s founder, Andrew Torba, left Twitter after posting antisemitic content there.
In one notable case, the shooter who killed 11 Jews in their synagogue on Shabbat in 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, regularly used the network.
“Jewish voters expect candidates to condemn antisemitism, whether it comes from the far-left or the far-right — and to shun those who espouse it,” Matt Brooks, the Republican Jewish Coalition’s executive director, told the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday.
“We strongly urge Doug Mastriano to end his association with Gab, a social network rightly seen by Jewish Americans as a cesspool of bigotry and antisemitism,” he said.
The Republican Jewish Coalition has previously spoken out against candidates who embrace extremist views, such as when Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar spoke at a conference of white nationalists in February.
The coalition joins a broad array of groups and individuals denouncing Mastriano, who won the Republican primary in May after receiving support from Democrats who believed he would be easier to defeat than his more moderate rival.
He is still seen as a long shot in November’s election but has been climbing in the polls against Josh Shapiro, the Jewish Democrat who is currently Pennsylvania’s attorney general.
“Here are the facts: Doug Mastriano is recruiting extremists on Gab, the same social media platform that empowered the Tree of Life killer to murder 11 Jewish people in a Pittsburgh synagogue,” Shapiro posted to social media Friday, a day after an array of politicians and community leaders held a press conference in Pittsburgh to denounce Mastriano’s Gab usage. “This is far from normal, and cannot be accepted as such. He is dangerous.”
This is his opponent on Mastriano during the primary season. He scratches the surface of this ideology here as well.
MAGA leadership is on full display promoting this sickening ideology. Here they are promoting Christian Nationalism to their far-right youth organization at a TPU USA conference.
