A pedophiliac white supremacist who supports rape, incest, and incels is running for Congress in Virginia


Nathan Larson, who is running for Congress in Virginia, is not a Democrat or Republican — let's get that out of the way — but rather, according to his now-defunct campaign site, a "quasi-neoreactionary libertarian" who supports free trade, gun ownership, "stopping the war on drugs," and "benevolent white supremacy." He is also, HuffPost reported Thursday night, an acknowledged pedophile who has bragged about raping his ex-wife on websites he ran for pedophiles and incels (involuntarily celebrate men). The sites were taken down Tuesday after the website Babe alerted the domain host.
Larson, a 37-year-old Charlottesville accountant, told HuffPost Thursday that there's a "grain of truth" in his writings about father-daughter incest and repeatedly raping his ex-wife, who committed suicide after getting a restraining order against him in 2015; he has since remarried but lost custody of his 3-year-old daughter. He said he didn't commit any crimes.
"A lot of people are tired of political correctness and being constrained by it," Larson told HuffPost. "People prefer when there's an outsider who doesn't have anything to lose and is willing to say what's on a lot of people's minds." Asked about his promotion of pedophilia and rape, he said "people are open-minded," and "a lot of people who disagreed with someone like Trump ... might vote for them anyway just because the establishment doesn't like them."
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This isn't Larson's first run for office — he got less than 2 percent of the vote in 2017 when running for a Virginia House of Delegates seat, and ran for Congress in 2008, too. In 2008, he also threatened to kill the president in a letter to the Secret Service, landing him in federal prison for 14 months, HuffPost reports. He lost his right to vote and run for office but had both reinstated under former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe's (D) push to restore felon voting rights. You can learn more and read a sample of his repugnant writings at HuffPost.
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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.
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