{"id":33773,"date":"2018-09-21T13:04:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T20:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33773"},"modified":"2018-09-21T13:04:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T20:04:41","slug":"republicans-on-parade-9-21-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/21\/republicans-on-parade-9-21-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade -9\/21\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RepublicansOnParade2.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the one hundred thirty-fifth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican White Supremacist media star and honey trap for miscreant misogynists, Lana Lokteff. She is so honored for her public Republican race hatred and gender treason.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0921Lockteff\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0921Lockteff\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/0921Lockteff.jpg\" width=\"362\" align=\"left\" height=\"362\" \/>&#8230;One of those [<em>Alt-Right<\/em>] women was Lana Lokteff, a Russian-American from Oregon who co-runs Red Ice, an alt-right media company, with her Swedish husband, Henrik Palmgren.<\/p>\n<p>The couple decided to make this their cause around 2012, Darby says, when they say they saw a lot of &quot;anti-white sentiment.&quot; Around the time of several high-profile police shootings of young, black men, Lokteff &quot;felt that Black Lives Matter and these other reactive forces were being unfair to white people and that then sort of spun into a conspiracy about how the establishment, so to speak, is out to oppress, minimize and silence white people.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Lokteff, who promotes alt-right ideologies on the couple&#8217;s YouTube channel, has been <strong>persistently trolled by the men of the movement<\/strong>. Darby wanted to understand what attracts women to a movement that is often hostile to them.<\/p>\n<p>In her piece, she quotes Andrew Anglin, who runs the (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/08\/14\/543360434\/white-supremacist-site-is-banned-by-go-daddy-after-virginia-rally\" target=\"_blank\">now blacklisted<\/a>) neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer as saying <strong>the white woman&#8217;s womb &quot;belongs to the males of society<\/strong>.&quot; And alt-right pioneer Richard Spencer [<em>Hail Trump!<\/em>], who acknowledges that women make up a small percentage of the movement, believes women are not suited for some roles in government, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2016\/11\/toxic-resentment-women-powers-alt-right\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports Mother Jones<\/a>: &quot;<strong>Women should never be allowed to make foreign policy<\/strong>,&quot; he tweeted during the first presidential debate. &quot;It&#8217;s not that they&#8217;re &#8216;weak.&#8217; To the contrary, their vindictiveness knows no bounds.&quot;&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/08\/20\/544134546\/the-women-behind-the-alt-right\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In the following clip she talks about discrimination against white men.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vXPiYgtUgIY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If she thinks white men can&#8217;t get a fair break, she should look at Putin&#8217;s Pussy Grabber, Pervert Kava-Nazi, and Judge Roy Moore.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">But is she really a Republican?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IPnhk9NePf8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">She brags that Steve King [R-IA] re-tweeted her and acknowledges allegiance to Richard Spencer, who celebrated his Fuhrer&#8217;s inauguration with &quot;Hail Trump&quot;!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\">VOTE BLUE!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\">46 DAYS!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the one hundred thirty-fifth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican White Supremacist media star and honey trap for miscreant misogynists, Lana Lokteff. She is so honored for her public Republican race hatred and gender treason. &#8230;One of those <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/21\/republicans-on-parade-9-21-2018\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}