SEE NO EVIL: CONGRESS GIVES THE ALT-RIGHT A STAR TURN.

• Author: Ryan, Melissa

One sign of the alt-right's influence within the Republican Party was the derailing of an April 9 House Judiciary Committee hearing on white nationalism and domestic terrorism. The event devolved into a circus, with some GOP committee members openly questioning whether white supremacy is even a thing.

The hearing's star invited witness was Candace Owens, an Infowars and Fox News contributor who had recently remarked that Hitler would have been "fine" had he stuck to being a nationalist in Germany.

Owens's only qualification to be a witness is that she'd been recently name-checked in the New Zealand mosque shooter's so-called manifesto as one of his influences. By including Owens as a witness--alongside Eileen Hershenov of the Anti-Defamation League, Eva Paterson of the Equal Justice Society, and Facebook's Public Policy Director Neil Potts--House Republicans...