Unfortunately, he has become radicalized by these alt-right folks online. He's become obsessed with Jews and white identity politics. His Twitter feed reads like that of an alt-right troll, not that of a person who wants to campaign against a person two heartbeats away from the Presidency. Breitbart indicates they are backing away, although we don't have a formal statement from Bannon yet. I've seen many others back away recently.
I'm not a big fan of Paul Ryan, but at least he has gotten things through the House (many things are held up in the Senate). He's also a viable candidate. If Paul Ryan hadn't have gotten anything through and Nehlen had stayed the same as he was in 2016, he'd have gotten a lot of support. Paul Ryan has, though, and even if Nehlen managed to beat him in the primary, he'd go down like a rock in the general.
When Paul Ryan smoked Nehlan in the GOP primary, everyone here on FR who is not a fan of Ryan should have gotten a reality check and realized that many of these establishment Republicans aren’t nearly as unpopular with their constituents as you’d believe if you only read FreeRepublic posts all day.
It is okay to be White.
It’s not okay to be white?
Removing Ryan can only be done indirectly. Face it his Congressional constituents love him! It’s a fools errand to go after his seat. Get enough anti-Ryan Pro-Trump Congresscritters elected to take away his speakership, that’s all you really need to do. His home constituents might then fall out of love with him. Then go after him directly but then ‘why bother?’.
It sounds like Nehlen went from being anti-establishment to being a loose cannon for some reason.
If you are an anti-Semite you are finished with the Trump movement.
Dump him. We don't want or need that crap...
Nice to post an article from the CNN hate site. What crumb of truth has ever come out of CNN. They should be banned from posting.
Please explain why the hashtag #It’sOkayToBeWhite is so bad.
People like Ryan will never get my vote in a general election.
Watching the UKIP movement in the UK I noticed that racists and zealots showed up at UKIP meetings, joined UKIP then disrupted UKIP with racism, sexual harassment allegations etc. to discredit UKIP.
The Uniparty sent spies, agents, plants call them what you will into UKIP to destroy it from within and weaken it.
Agents from the Conservative and Labor parties in the UK did the dirty work.
I see that repeating itself among anti-establishment forces inside the GOP.
nehlan was another massive favorite of the suicide corner here at FR.
There has to be people who we identify as being beyond the pale because of their opinions. I’m not a fan of Bannon’s, but I’m pleased he doesn’t feel some weird obligation to support a clearly unelectable and despicable man.
He Nehlaniated himself.
,Since this piece is from CNN, I was not ready to believe that Nehlen is an anti-semite. But I trust your reporting about him.
A FReeper — possibly you — got me to take a look at Nehlen. Seemed like a good guy, and I sent him some money. It’s a shame to learn he’s not really one of us.
Thank you for the enlightenment.
Never drink and Facebook. Never, ever, drink, read /pol/, and tweet.
Nehlen could not even crack 20% against Ryan. Ryan has passed tax cuts now, and gotten Foxconn jobs a-plenty into his district thanks to Trump. Why is Paul nehlen even a subject for discussion at this point?
He reminds me of Santorum with his never freaking shut up style.
They should put Alt-Right, BLM and Antifa in a locked room together and let them wipe each other out, kind of like matter and anti-matter.