Steve Scalise was a budding Louisiana state lawmaker eager to ascend the Republican ranks when he quickly accepted an offer to address a white-supremacist organization 12 years ago. …
This week’s revelation that Scalise, now the third-ranking Republican in the U.S. House, spoke at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization illustrates the ways the New South and the Old South can collide in today’s Republican politics. CONT.
Robert Costa & Philip Rucker, Washington Post