Rep. Steve King is right. America has been divided, and he helped divide it. - Jonathan Capehart

[DonViejo]

By Jonathan Capehart June 15 at 1:29 PM

On a day that cried out for calls for unity — and got them from House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and even President Trump — leave it to Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to emerge from his palatial glass house to yell at the neighbors.

“America has been divided,” King said Wednesday from the scene of the horror on a local baseball field in Alexandria, where Republican members of Congress and staff were practicing for a charity game against Democrats on Thursday. “And the center of America is disappearing, and the violence is appearing in the streets, and it’s coming from the left.”

As if that weren’t enough, King took to Twitter to repeat himself.

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Yes, the center of America is disappearing. There are many causes of it, including hateful rhetoric that drives wedges rather than builds bridges. And a leading expert in the former is King.

Nearly a year ago, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, King stunned the nation with a bit of racial chauvinism. He was reacting to writer Charles Pierce contending that the gathering might be the last time old white people command the attention of the GOP.

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[stollen]

1. I lived in NW IA for a few years (Osceola Co)

and King is a fucking asshole.

[jaysunb]

2. Would that include the people that continue to elect him ? nt

[SCVDem]

3. I hope Mexico buys their corn

From South America.

Fuck Iowa!

You're welcome!