A former Republican congressman who claims same-sex parents will harm children has announced his bid to unseat Minnesota Democratic Senator Tina Smith.
Jason Lewis, better known as a right-wing radio blowhard served one term as a Minnesota congressman before voters booted him from the legislature. He lost reelection to openly gay Democrat Angie Craig in 2018. He now intends to win a seat in the Senate by running as a Trump-emulating extremist.
Among Lewis’ chief targets: queer people, whom he has compared to rapists. Lewis has claimed rape laws are “unfair,” since they don’t treat rapists as equal citizens. He’s used the dubious reasoning to undermine marriage equality. “So if the law says that we’re not going to allow three people to marry, then you’ve got to treat everybody the same way,” Lewis said in a 2013 radio broadcast. “No three people can marry. Same is true for gay marriage. It’s not discrimination. It’s not unconstitutional. The law discriminates all the time. It discriminates against behavior.”
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In addition to his attacks on LGBTQ people, Lewis has defended slavery. “In fact, if you really want to be quite frank about it, how does somebody else owning a slave affect me? It doesn’t,” Lewis wrote in his book Power Divided is Choked. “If I don’t think it is right, I won’t own one, and people always say ‘well if you don’t want to marry somebody of the same sex, you don’t have to, but why tell somebody else they can’t.’ Uh, you know if you don’t want to own a slave, don’t. But don’t tell other people they can’t.”
Lewis has also attacked women as stupid. “You’ve got a vast majority of young single women who couldn’t explain to you what GDP means. You know what they care about? They care about abortion. They care about abortion and gay marriage. They care about ‘The View.’ They are non-thinking,” he once said on his radio show.
The incendiary rhetoric and love of Donald Trump has led political site Politico to dub Lewis Trump’s “Mini-Me.” We hope that also means mini voter turnout come November 2020.
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karl schroeder
I often wonder how it is that someone like this can actually get voted into public office. He himself is either suffering from a personality disorder or is deliberately acting out a role – but how about the voters? They can’t all be disordered – some of them must actually believe in the kind of BS Lewis is spouting. How do we change their minds? Certainly not by just attacking Trump or Lewis for their abhorrent views. We have to offer those voters something more dynamic, something that actually affects their lives and makes them better in some way. If not, we will continue to get nutty Republicans spewing their hatred, and continuing to dominate the Senate and control the White House.
rustyiam
We can start by not electing alt left socialists! Because of those nut jobs we are getting alt right extremist nut jobs like this guy!
Cam
@rustyiam
Awwww, the right wing troll account is here again, trying to deflect a topic about a right wing anti-LGBTQ bigot by screaming about “The Left”.
Notice also how it basically says bigots aren’t responsible for their bigotry? That somehow, their bigotry is the fault of “The left”.
Please tell your manager at the troll farm to put someone smarter on this account.
charlietex
@ Cam. You got that right. The only thing Rusty about him is his logic. Every time you comment it’s just some load of crap.
Kangol2
@karlschroeder makes a good point about offering voters something affirmative rather than negative, though some studies have shown that negative appeals, tailored in certain ways, can be more effective in helping candidates win by suppressing one set of voters and energizing another.
This hatemonger Jason Lewis is probably going to lose in a landslide, which will be good not only because he deserves to lose because he clearly cannot serve all his constituents and he’s deranged, but also because Tina Smith has been a very positive replacement for Al Franken.
@Cam, you always fight the good fight. Rustynail wouldn’t know a socialist leftist if one bit him in the behind, but strangely he always does know how to deflect from criticizing or even calling out right-wing racist homophobes!
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You just know this cretin has many tiny skeletons piled up in his closet just waiting to come tumbling out…