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Republican Congressional candidate Mike Detmer proudly supports "Western chauvinism"
Republican congressional candidate Mike Detmer has come under fire for a Facebook post viewed as defending the neo-fascist group The Proud Boys, which is known for violent incidents at political rallies and condemned as a hate group.
Detmer, who is vying for Democratic U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin's seat, posted on his Facebook page that he spoke with leaders of the all-male Proud Boys after a member of the group appeared in a selfie he took prior to a Lansing protest last week.
Detmer, a Howell Republican, wrote that the group "is about protecting our freedoms."
He also listed the tenets of the Proud Boys, which include defending the First and Second amendments but also Western chauvinism, closing U.S. borders to immigrants, "anti-racial guilt" and "venerating the housewife."
https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/23/republican-candidate-detmer-defends-comments-proud-boys/5169875002/
Detmer, who is vying for Democratic U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin's seat, posted on his Facebook page that he spoke with leaders of the all-male Proud Boys after a member of the group appeared in a selfie he took prior to a Lansing protest last week.
Detmer, a Howell Republican, wrote that the group "is about protecting our freedoms."
He also listed the tenets of the Proud Boys, which include defending the First and Second amendments but also Western chauvinism, closing U.S. borders to immigrants, "anti-racial guilt" and "venerating the housewife."
https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/23/republican-candidate-detmer-defends-comments-proud-boys/5169875002/
He's gone beyond the "I didn't know who they were" or "there are some good people" BS; he explicitly supports "Western chauvinism".
