Jason Lewis is "Minnesota's Mini-Trump"

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/meet-minnesotas-mini-trump/495641/

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Among the most competitive: the battle for Minnesota’s 2nd, a swingy sort of district in the southern suburbs of the Twin Cities. Although represented since 2003 by Republican John Kline (who is retiring), the 2nd is more purple than red and narrowly went for Obama in 2012.

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So how have Minnesota Republicans responded to the challenge? By nominating Jason Lewis, a hard-right radio provocateur turned internet activist famous for racist, misogynistic, and generally from-the-fringe rants that make Donald Trump sound like Mitt Romney. Hard to believe, I know. But behold just a few of the pearls of wisdom Lewis has dropped over the years.

During the November 9, 2012 broadcast of The Jason Lewis Show, Lewis spoke at length about how white people were committing “cultural suicide” and “political suicide” with their failure to procreate at the same level as Hispanics. “I don’t want to make a racial thing out of this. I’m just stating a fact,” he reassured listeners.

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You’ve got a vast majority of young single women who couldn’t explain to you what GDP means. You know what they care about? They care about abortion. They care about abortion and gay marriage. They care about The View. They are non-thinking.

Fans of The Rush Limbaugh Show, of which Lewis was a popular guest host, were treated to his take on Hurricane Katrina during one 2009 broadcast. “If you talk to real Americans, they think the mistake was a bunch of whiners down there.

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As for slavery itself, Lewis’s book, Power Divided is Power Checked: The Argument for States’ Rights, smacks Abraham Lincoln as the ultimate Big Government president, who used slavery as an excuse to go to war and prevent the secession of the South. As the book’s kicker, Lewis calls for a constitutional amendment allowing “any state to peaceably leave the union.”

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Esme Murhpy went after him this morning and he tried to say that, hey, what he said in previous years and his book should not be counted now. What about Franken calling for raping Lesley Stahl? (really?)

His Democratic opponent is a woman, Angie Craig. He deserves to lose to "a girl." But Murphy wondered how conservative district would respond to a relative new comer - 10 years - who is also gay. Married with children.

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1. Ugh. He's a horrible human being.

I hope Craig can pull it off - but with Lewis' name recognition and yes, the overall conservative profile of that district, it will be a tough battle. Hopefully Lewis (like Drumpf) will drop a few inexcusable soundbites the Craig campaign can exploit.

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2. In a letter to the StarTribune today

a reader complains that "the article included the following comment on candidate Darlene Miller’s take on Lewis: “She had publicized and criticized some of Lewis’ outrageous radio comments and writings.” Note that the sentence states as fact that his comments and writings were outrageous, not that Miller says they were."

Well, they were..