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This article originally appeared at Right Wing Watch, the website published by People For the American Way.
Last month, [former Ku Klux Klan official] David Duke stopped by the white nationalist radio show "The Political Cesspool" to discuss his relationship with House Republican Whip Steve Scalise, who reportedly spoke at a 2002 gathering held by Duke's European-American Unity and Rights Organization when he was a state lawmaker in Louisiana. Duke blamed the controversy on the supposed Jewish establishment, which he claimed controls the media and wants to throw "European-Americans" into gulags, and which he said sees Scalise as a potential threat down the road.
Duke said that he consistently won "over 60 percent of the popular vote in [Scalise's] congressional district" in his various campaigns for elected office, and therefore people who condemn Scalise "for meeting with me or voting for me, they are condemning the people of Louisiana."
Referencing Scalise's reported 1999 statement that he was "like David Duke without the baggage," Duke said the congressman "agreed with all of my ideas, but my God, you got to be able to get elected."
"They think anybody out there who agrees with my ideas, they will destroy them, it's not going to help you to run like a rabbit with the tail between your legs," Duke said. "Now he's really going to be careful, he's not going to do anything."
Duke added: "They're just afraid Scalise is really like me underneath and he may someday be their enemy because just about everybody in my district understands the real power behind the throne in this country, they understand the real ethnic racism that runs this nation and controls our foreign policy."
Duke, of course, was referring to the "Zionists" whom he claims control both political parties.
"The real problem in America is racism," Duke said. "Now, that sounds funny coming from David Duke; the problem is racism, there is a racism that rules America, but it's not white racism, it is what you can just plainly say is Jewish racism, Jewish supremacism. They have literally taken over our Hollywood media, our news media, our entertainment media, our music media."
Claiming that the supposed Jewish "control of the media" has made African Americans more violent, Duke went on to describe Nicki Minaj as "the most obscene individual, degraded individual, filthy individual I've ever heard in my life. I think she's pretty much rivaled, though, by Miley Cyrus, who is unfortunately one of our own."
Duke warned that "Jewish power" is sowing political conflict and using mass immigration to throw America into civil war by "getting rid of the people who were the vast majority of America, even though we're fading fast, that is European-Americans."
"There is no other question" than "the Jewish question," Duke continued, alleging that Jews who control all segments of influence will turn America into a "Bolshevik state."
"We're moving towards Bolshevism, we're moving towards tyranny. Every day we're losing our rights and it's the same as what happened in the Soviet Union and the day will come when they'll haul millions of us out to the gulags and die," he said. "Unless we stand up and defeat them."
