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Accused Sexual Harasser GOP Candidate Steps Down, An Apparent Neo-Nazi Takes His Place (www.rollingstone.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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A Texas GOP candidate has drawn scrutiny after video surfaced of him happily boasting about having a copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

(eds. note: glad you specified which Mein Kampf)

Brandon Herrera is the GOP nominee for Texas’ 23rd congressional district after incumbent Tony Gonzales dropped out of his reelection bid following a sex scandal over which MAGA lawmakers called for his resignation. A subsequent ethics investigation ensued after reports surfaced that he had an affair with someone on his staff who later died by suicide.

Meanwhile, Herrera has become the district’s de facto GOP nominee in the wake of departure of Gonzales — who in 2024 called Herrera a “known neo-Nazi” — from the race. (Herrera denied the accusation, saying on X at the time, “This should be obvious, but I am not, nor have I never been a neo-Nazi.”) The firearms manufacturer and YouTuber, who’s known on the internet at “The AK Guy,” went viral on Friday after a video surfaced where he is seen boasting about his copy of Mein Kampf.

Boasting is indeed worrisome, but consider that when my ex and I moved in together, we now had the problem of two copies of Mein Kampf.

We'd both picked up the same translation in adolescence because it was a historical work that offered insights into what passed for Hitler's thought process.

I'm not saying that's the case for Herrera by any means, but simply owning a copy does not make one a Nazi.

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[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have a copy of Mein Kampf. When i was twelve i wanted to learn how my enemies think. (Un)fortunately it's such bad prose that i never made more than a few pages in. -Doesn't really matter though. I learned more about my enemy by consumimg large amount of media from a wide variety of sources since then. Mein enemy is not that complex.

-Seperately, I'm sure I have at least one bible still lying around that was given to me even though im pretty strongly an atheist/anti-deist

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Hitler isn't exactly remembered for his persuasive writing.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, it was a best seller in Germany and he's definitely remembered for the speeches he wrote.

Rhetoric is targeted at a specific audience within a specific context. His was pissed off and desperate Germans in the 1930's, we're just not going to fall for the same things they did.

What are we falling for right now though that people in a century will consider blindingly wrongheaded?

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 points 6 hours ago

All of it. Corporate profits ueber alles.