Paul Nehlen

Paul Nehlen is an American businessman, politician, Republican, fascist, "free speech" advocate of #ShallNotCensor, Christian, and a political candidate in his second (failed) attempt to replace his rival Paul Ryan in the Republican Primary for Wisconsin 1st District in 2018. Nehlen previously challenged Ryan in 2016 and lost in the Republican primary by 15.9% to Ryan's 84.1%. However, Nehlen is infamous for the fact that he has been associated with the alt-right and as such has engaged in their typical online behavior such as posting their memes. Most notably he has read Kevin MacDonald's discredited Culture of Critique (a book arguing that Judaism is a "group evolutionary strategy") in one tweet.

Evidence of his Antisemitism
To get you a good idea of what Paul Nehlen's views on Jews are then read his tweets on his (now suspended) Twitter account: Just admit you are a (((bigot))) @aricohn and I'll pretend you didn't pretend you were white for the purposes of starting a race war w me. Ah yes @KurtSchlichter joins the ranks of shekels-for-hire™ BlueChecks... Don't you have a war to advocate for, Kurt? How I Got Fired: Exposing Jewish power in America has real consequences Fascinating Ari, when you see **** you think "Jews"[.] Wonder what you would think if you weren't Jewish, because, although I could care less that you are, I'm fascinated by your candidly supremacist views. Again: if pro-White is White supremacy, what is pro-Jewish? 3/ The jig is up because just as the Jews called for Barabbas when Pontius Pilate offered Jesus freedom, so did the GOP call for Doug Jones. Jesus is the Messiah. He is One with the Father and the Holy Ghost. Jews (and others) who do not acknowledge this fact will burn in hell. Poop, incest, and pedophilia. Why are those common themes repeated so often with Jews? It's uncanny that those three seem to be the first insults Jews hurl beyond the usual "antisemite" or "Nazi" or "White Supremacist" Judean. There's a difference. Christ is the Messiah, and your denial of that fact, along with the rest who do so, will be the reason you spend eternity in Hell. When @davidmweissman said "Maybe it's time Jews of all backgrounds to unite to take on #WhiteSupremacy" Those of us who are pro-White being labeled as "White Supremacists" didn't need a decoder ring to recognize David meant #SupemacistJews [sic] vs pro-Whites. Maybe it's time for everyone to consider pro-Jewish as #JewishSupremacy

It's Okay to be White, err, Nehlen
Nehlen has also posted tweets on his now suspended Twitter account that include the phrase It's OK to be white a common alt-right/white nationalist slogan pretty much making Nehlen a white nationalist. He has also posted a variation of the phrase called "It's Okay to be Nehlen" as part of his Congressional campaign: It's okay to be white. It's not okay to pretend to be for purposes of undermining whites. But you knew that. It's okay to be white. #HumanRightsDay It's okay to be white. Just as I suspected. @jpodhoretz is anti-white. It's okay to be white, John.

Islamophobia
In addition to hating Jews and being a white nationalist, Nehlen is also an Islamophobe who hates Muslims as summed up by this one tweet: A total halt to Muslim immigration is the only humane precaution against the fundamentalist tenets of Islam consistent w U.S.Constitu (sic) Art.6 In citing Article 6 of the Constitution, Nehlen seems to be alleging the wingnut conspiracy idea of Creeping Sharia.

Anti-immigration
Like his fellow Republicans and Donald Trump, Nehlen also wants to build a wall on the United States-Mexico border best described in this tweet: BUILD THE WALL

Curt Schilling interview and subsequent trolling
In a now-infamous incident, Breitbart's Curt Schilling interviewed Paul Nehlen. Unfortunately, things escalated quickly when ThinkProgress obtained audio from the interview and leaked it out to the public. Since then, Schilling has distanced himself from Nehlen, saying there was "[n]o positive benefit to giving [Nehlen] air time". In response, Nehlen began to troll and harass Schilling by gathering his Twitter supporters to attack him and the "Jewish media" stating he was going to "decimate them all."

At war with the media
Nehlen engaged in a Twitter war with the Jewish conservative journalist (editor of Commentary and columnist for the New York Post) from October to December 2017. During the war, Nehlen issued a thinly-veiled threat, "Do us all a favor, Podhoretz. Eat a bullet.", that was subsequently deleted though another similar Tweet was active until his account was suspended in February 2018 (see below). Nehlen also posted a series of (now deleted) anti-Semitic tweets with photos of executives at media companies (including NBC, CNN and Fox) marked with the to indicate they were Jewish.

Apparently, even the far-right Breitbart News found him to be too extreme after he was revealed to have been reading Kevin MacDonald's Culture of Critique. One of Steve Bannon's advisers Arthur Schwartz said that "Nehlen is dead to us."

Fake Mossad retweeting
One of the more infamous incidents Nehlen has gotten himself into was retweeting a fake Mossad account on December 29, 2017. He posted this tweet with the words "I notice things @FBI". Little did he know that the "Mossad" account was satirical.

Jew list controversy
Once again, Nehlen made the headlines when he posted the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of 74 individuals that he claimed were Jews on January 31, 2018. Needless to say, it caused much controversy, and critics noted that several individuals listed weren't even Jewish (such as Persian Huffington Post journalist Yashar Ali). It was also denounced as anti-Semitic.

That racist Meghan Markle photo and Twitter ban
Nehlen again made headlines when, on February 11, 2018, he posted a racist photo of Prince Harry's bride and actress Meghan Markle (who describes herself as half-white and half-black) with her appearance and looks altered to the recently-discovered Cheddar Man (which revealed that early Britons were dark-skinned with blue eyes) with the words "Honey, does this tie make my face look pale". As you would expect from Nehlen, this caused much controversy, with Markle's  co-star Patrick J. Adams posting on his Twitter account:

Despite Nehlen defending this tweet as a joke, needless to say, Twitter officially suspended his account.

This led, inevitably, to ongoing use by alt-right trolls of his name, image, and other references in tweets and their profiles.

Doxxing and Gab suspension
After being suspended from Twitter Nehlen moved to using Gab, and, during this time, had taken to doxxing his critics there, and on his "Nehlen for Congress" website. Nehlen's expressed views started to become more overtly racist and antisemitic, including an appearance on David Duke's podcast, and promoting a book that contained Charles Manson's justification for violent Neo-Nazi terrorism.

This earned him criticism from members of the alt-right who felt he was going too far, and a more subtle approach was necessary to persuade people to join them. In response, Nehlen began doxxing his critics, despite warnings from Gab to stop, culminating in the doxxing of an alt-right propagandist who went by the name of "Ricky Vaughn," which was the last straw, earning him a ban from the platform and the disavowal of many former allies, including Richard Spencer, The Right Stuff founder Mike Enoch, and Baked Alaska.

Facebook ban
In 2019, Facebook banned Nehlen and several other individuals (Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos and Laura Loomer) as "dangerous individuals and organizations".

Other stuff
Nehlen once called Richard Lawler (editor of Engadget), "Tyrone" (a derogatory term used toward African-Americans) as an insult. He has also retweeted an image showing Paul Ryan falling from a helicopter, in reference to the "free helicopter rides" alt-right meme. He also posted Fashwave imagery on his now-suspended Twitter account on December 13, 2017, with neon 80s imagery mixed with the Statue of Liberty and the words "Save America" with Nehlen himself front. He was also once interviewed by The Right Stuff's Fash the Nation. Additionally, Nehlen was interviewed by white nationalist, anti-Semite, and former-KKK leader David Duke on his radio show

Nehlen also was interviewed by alt-right media outlet Red Ice and promised to target the ADL by stripping its 501(c)(3) status. He also mentioned David Duke and Kevin MacDonald once again noting he's had phone calls with them.

In June 2019, he encouraged his followers to dox and harass transgender individuals. He also was one of the people involved in the Straight Pride parades in Boston, Massachusetts. For those unaware, straight pride is used as a euphemism for homophobia, especially in alt-right/far-right circles.

As of 2019, he's somehow managed to become even more insane by embracing terrorism "accelerationism", commending far-right terrorist attacks in New Zealand and Poway, CA among others, saying that he "wouldn't be opposed to somebody leading a million Robert Bowers to the promised land."

Alt-right vocabulary
Lest there be any doubt, here are some of the terms that Nehlen uses from the Alt-right: • 3