TJ Walker points out that Ohio Republican Senator Jon Husted hired 25-year-old Steven Witek as political director despite Witek once using a Waffen-SS soldiers photo as his Facebook profile picture. Walker uses the hire to challenge claims that Republicans aren't sympathetic to extremism.
Republicans in America are constantly being unfairly caricaturized as sympathetic to racism and fascism. It's a genuine shame. It's a cruel stereotype. It is completely unsupported except by an almost artisanal selection of people they keep hiring. Republican Senator Jon Husted of Ohio recently hired 25-year-old Steven Witek as political director for his competitive Senate campaign. Political director. That is, the person responsible for political judgment, public perception, and preventing the campaign from being photographed next to anything resembling the Third Reich. Unfortunately, Wotek once used a photograph of actual Waffen-SS soldiers as his Facebook profile picture. But let's not rush to judgment. Plenty of people accidentally select Nazi soldiers as their public identity. Facebook profiles are confusing. You think you clicked family vacation and suddenly you're Hitler's bodyguard.
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