’Hitler just wanted to make Germany great,’ Candace Owens of Trump-aligned TPUSA says in London / Boing Boing
▻https://boingboing.net/2019/02/08/candace-owens-hitler-just-w.html
Well alrighty then.
Candace Owens of Turning Point USA, speaking in London: "But if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine. The problem is that he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize.”
Here is video of Candace Owens’ full answer on nationalism and Hitler pic.twitter.com/NfBvoH8vQg
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) February 8, 2019
Candace Owens is the mouthpiece of Turning Point USA, a political action group closely aligned with Donald Trump and supported by his MAGA fans.
Days After Its Disastrous British Launch, Turning Point Has Already Lost One Of Its Star Recruits
▻https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexspence/pro-trump-turning-point-loses-star-activists
This week, Turning Point announced the opening of its British offshoot with a flashy digital media campaign fronted by several youthful Westminster figures, including the Guido Fawkes writer Tom Harwood and Darren Grimes, the Brexit campaigner fined £20,000 by the Electoral Commission for breaking spending rules during the EU referendum campaign.
With a provocative pitch about liberating universities from the left, the launch attracted widespread publicity. Several prominent politicians on the British right endorsed the group, including Nigel Farage, Priti Patel, and Jacob Rees-Mogg. But there was also pushback: Labour MP David Lammy tweeted that Tories who were endorsing Turning Point were openly promoting “hard right, xenophobic bile”. Conservative party headquarters sent an instruction to its members “not to work with them in any capacity”.