Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar not only did not “debate” the attendees at the White Nationalist gathering in Florida known as AFPAC on Friday, he whipped them into a froth before the final speaker of the evening.
Gosar has received criticism for speaking to the America First Political Action Conference before going to the slightly more mainstream CPAC on Saturday. The Arizona Representative justified it to the Washington Post by saying that “it’s always about the debate.”
However, Gosar’s 15-minute speech did not challenge any aspect of the recurring theme that “White people” and “our country” was in danger from immigration. Rather, he repeatedly fed the audience red meat.
In talking about the need to resume building a U.S./Mexico border wall, Gosar received loud cheers for saying “a nation without a people is not a nation.”
However, one climactic part of his speech was when he declared:
