White Nationalists Love Corey Stewart. He Keeps Them Close. (06coreystewart) (06coreystewart)

At least candidates like Corey Stewart and Trump are useful for getting a head count on voting age racists in my state.

'Mr. Stewart has styled himself as a champion of the Confederacy and its statues, and, as he puts it, “taking back our heritage.”' I'm Italian American. That doesn't mean I consider Mussolini my "heritage."

" a profound political dilemma of the Trump era is whether to support the growing number of candidates...who make racially divisive remarks...and back causes that are championed by white nationalists. " As Bill Kristol pointed out, this should not be a dilemma. If you think it's a dilemma, perhaps you should do some serious self-examination.

It is too bad that the same Minnesota that elected Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, and Walter Mondale to office has also spawned a man like Cory Stewart. Vote For Kaine!

This guy definitely knows how to catch the wind in his sails. He's an opportunist through and through -- even when that means lowering your standards about as low as they can go. This guy isn't even "party before country." He's Corey Stewart before anything!

Another northern ‘carpet-bagger’ invades the defeated southern U.S. by appealing to its’ basest elements and promising ‘the South shall rise again’. What’s new?

Someone needs to remind Chief Justice Roberts that racism is not dead but alive and doing well. Remember his justification of gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was because he truly believes racism no longer existed in America. Now not only do we have voter suppression but also friends of White Nationalists (white supremacists, American terrorists) running for office and have the ear of our president in Stephan Miller. I thought we were the home of the brave, where all men are created equal; or are we truly a racist, sexist country filled with hate, fear and anger because of lies.

Joke of a candidate who should get rightly trounced. Republicans should really push for open primaries; might help prevent their fringe element overtaking the process and advancing these clowns for the general election.

"White Nationalists"? Seriously?? That's what they call themselves and it's inaccurate. They are racists and white supremacists. Nothing but evil, all about attacking our nations values. Shame on you New York Times for pandering to them!

Which "heritage" of the Confederacy is Mr. Stewart so eager to reclaim? The racism, the treason or the failure?

I don't see any dilemma for 'mainstream GOP' in opportunist Stewart's associations or positions given they mirror the racist n' chief's positions. Palling around with scruffy racists, making racist remarks and touting the "Confederacy" seem very mainstream Republican pursuits these days. The GOP promotion of racism as THE reason to vote for Republicans has been woven into the party's DNA since Nixon's "Southernn Strategy". The presence of trump in the WH has emboldened racists to come of woodwork and proclaim their racism while trying to recast same as patriotism. The current racism binge - shoving as much racism as possible into the air - will likely be followed by a purge of racists that, I hope, will set us on a newer, higher course.

Republican lawmakers are afraid of upsetting their base, even when the base is made up of the White supremacists, the uneducated, and bigots. If they had any decency and moral values they'd denounce and reject that base, but either they prefer the trappings of political power, or they really share those values.

Just a side note: the overmantel painting shown Mr. Stewart is pointing to in one of your photos is a copy of Grant Wood's "Parson Weems' Fable." The original is in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas.

I think we are going to put the whole statues argument to a test here, this guy will lose and they can finish the job of removing them from public spaces once and for all. It is amazing when a northerner starts talking about our "heritage" involving statues of southern traitors. You would think a guy who went to a mid-level law school would read a book or two on the subject.

‘Only the (Southern) army surrendered; not the government.’ Well that sure is a new crazy idea. The civil war is o-v-e-r.

Let me qualify my statement before I make it. I am a liberal first generation Hispanic immigrant to this country. Times has zero credibility on issues of race or ethnicity due to the policy of hiring over racist and supporting that persons bigotry by exhibiting the papers o and be willing to stand up to itbias by perpetuating the evil philosophy that you can’t be racist towards “whites”. This dehumanization took place in 1930s Germany and in every other case where genocide has taken place. If you are Caucasion be fearful of this trend in the same manner as we minorities stand up to bigots you all must do the same. Every child should be proud of who they are but not taught they are superior or someone else is inferior. #walkaway

"a profound political dilemma" - any 'dilemma' about whether or not to support white nationalists is only 'profound' if you possess no moral character whatsoever.

Maybe he's not a racist, but he most certainly is a hypocrite.

The Times gives this racist fellow a lengthy article on the front-page. Lots of exposure. But no censure. Does the Times think his rhetoric and behavior is in keeping with American ideals? Is it 100% OK to be racist as long as one has some supporters, even if they're racist too? It would be nice if this news organization stopped acting as if the American public is no more than an interesting collection of ants in a farm, above which the you sit with a magnifying glass, pointing our oddities and novel behaviors in an unimpeachably balanced manner. We are beyond the point where good citizens are required to speak up and stand against creeping racism and racist violence. The Time's silence continues to be deafening.

He makes me embarrassed to be a Virginian. But, then, Trump makes me embarrassed to be an American.

I found this interesting: “I’m not going to back down from my controversial positions,” he added. “If I were to do that my base would be gone." Mr. Stewart essentially is admitting that he doesn't have widespread appeal or support and that he is just playing to his base.

Another con man in the mold of the pathological liar child bully opportunist in the White House -hope he is fefeated by a landslide.

This dude is just another in very long line of racist, white supremacist republican politicians in the Commonwealth. Former governor and US senator george Allen occupied this space a few minutes ago.

US Senate candidate Corey Stewart claims to love history - and he has, hanging above his fireplace, a sloppy knock-off of Grant Wood’s famous, historical painting, “Parson Weems’ Fable” depicting George Washington’s apocryphal, cherry tree incident. But, Stewart’s love of art history is shallow. Grant Wood was a political lefty, a gay man from Iowa who really loved spending time on the European Continent and painting satirical works skewering unsavory American pastimes, such as racism, political unctuousness, bigotry and mis-guided righteousness. He also embedded in his paintings subtle references celebrating homosexuality. That cheesy, clunky, forgery of which you are so proud, Mr. Stewart, is a joke, which appears to be squarely on you.

Guilt by association does not make logical sense just because someone published in the NY Times commits this logical fallacy slander in the name of alleged "tolerance". Many white nationalists, or terrorists might "love" Christ or Allah but that does not make Christ or Allah white nationalists or terrorists. And we can be sure that Hitler believed that 2 plus 2 equals 4, and the fact that most 'liberals' believe that too does not make most liberals Nazis. Although, they probably are Stalinists willing to murder 10's of millions of innocents so 'the people will learn to fear the state".

With Corey Stewart on the ballot, the choice for governor becomes clearer for the 20% or so in the alleged middle; they can choose between regressive racism and our worst national instincts or sane progress and our best American values. The downside of Corey Stewart on the ballot is that he's there for the misguided and uninformed to vote for. "Kaine is gonna win anyway " is not going to cut it in November. It will take overwhelming support at the ballot box by anyone left of far right to overcome any obstacles to voting and ensure that the only way Mr. Stewart sees the state capitol is in pictures.

If they were truly wary, he wouldn't be running.

I am tired of the GOP claiming to be "wary" of extreme candidates. They totally ignore the abominable comments and acts of Trump. So they murmur support of Mueller, but won't bring a bill forward to protect the investigation. They draw back at the horror of family separation at our borders, but are doing nothing to reorganize ICE or temper deportations. I didn't see outrage when a pedophile candidate ran for Senate in GA. I don't see outrage against other borderline criminal candidates on GOP tickets nationwide. As long as any candidate can bolster the GOP, regardless of the acceptability as a representative in the government, the GOP will support them. They became the "Party over Country" party when they took a vow to block a president who received a mandate from the American people in 2008. The seeds were sown by the Tea Party, and the majority of the GOP let them run rampant, bowing to the more extreme minority. The GOP doing the same thing they did in 2016 -- pretending Trump didn't exist, then backing everything he represents. I am not surprised this is happening again. One should read "Behind the Curtain" newsletter from MA Representative Michael Capuano. You would be shocked (maybe) to find out what is going on behind the scenes while we are all absorbed with the outrageous headlines and tweets from and about Trump.

Tim Kaine is really NOT an alternative to Corey Stewart. First of all both men are carpetbaggers technically. Both men being Minnesota born. Much is made in this article about an "infatuation" with artifacts and monuments from the Confederacy on the part of Stewart. It is well known that when so called liberal Kaine was the Mayor of Richmond he put up a monument to Robert E Lee in the form of a mural. He also put it where Black residents of Richmond would have to see it every day.That was not a particularly racially sensitive thing to do to a community that you expect support from. It is somewhat hypocritical to sweep that fact about Kaine under the rug now simply because he was HRC's running mate. I do think Black voters in Virginia are well aware of BOTH candidates infatuation with the lost cause of the Confederacy. I would strongly suggest that the good people of Virginia White and Black judge these two men on their accomplishments and character as well as what they plan to do for them should either one win this election.

There was a term for Northerners who supported the Confederacy. They were called Copperheads. Very apt and deadly accurate...Stewart would qualify as a carpetbagging copperhead.

He is using Trump's tools. Don't believe what you see and hear. Just take my word for it. Racist are very fine people. Bottom line is that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, It's a DUCK!

Hopefully Kaine learned something from 2016: never, ever, underestimate the GOP's ability to win by any means necessary, fair and foul.

RE: "Mr. Stewart has styled himself as a champion of the Confederacy and its statues, and, as he puts it, “taking back our heritage.” "A champion of the Confederacy." I.e., traitor. Lately the right has been taken to saying "elections have consequences". So do wars. The Confederacy lost the war. Those who lead the fight against the United States were traitors. The monuments that people wish to keep are monuments to traitors of the United States. Monuments to those who sought to defeat them in battle and blood. What other country condones traitor monuments? Those that continue the fight work to undermine the values of the United States and seek to defeat in legislature and popular opinion what could not be defeated in war.

“...and the North and the South reconciled. And I think we need to respect that.” Wrong, Mr. Stewart; there has never been a “reconciliation,” and you need to understand that. What you’re doing is dislodging all our national and regional ugliness to benefit one person—yourself. As the article states, you’re a carpetbagger, an opportunist who went South, soaked up its ouvre, and stayed when some bees showed up at your hive. But you’re only following your party’s line—whip up yer soldiery so they don’t see what’s really going on behind the closed doors of the think tanks and the country club teas and the after-dinner cigars-and-brandy strategy sessions. You and the party bosses try to publicly disavow the hate, but you’re all like a ventriloquist with a puppet—it’s wink-wink with the fringes and if their Election Day turnout delivers you governing majorities, you don’t care because “winning is everything, even if it means employing the lowest common denominator. So you go South and rip open afresh the wounds that will never scab over because it’s not to your benefit. You live in a stinking, crumbling mausoleum of America’s past and you keep alive the hate that’s embodied in the grey and weathered statues, those frozen faces of treason that urged on uneducated, poor, frightened boys to accomplish their masters’ purposes: to fight and die in the service of a lie so that, yes, “white supremacy” could retain its iron grip on the South’s will to financial and racial hegemony.

" there are fine people on both sides ". NO. Absolutely NOT. You can play footsie with the KKK and other white Supremacists OR be a decent person. There is no in between or neutral. Seriously.

It’s more than odd that Republicans support enemies of the American people. The Confederacy was an enemy of the United States. Southerns do not like to look at history that way, as true as it may be. The leader of the Republican Party cozies up to the leader of our most adversarial enemy. Jesus would be proud:Love thy enemy. Really? Oh yeah, I forgot. The new-Nazis, “There are good people on both sides.” Baloney.

As the left continues to double-down on identity politics, Corey Stewart is the logical conclusion; an opposite and equal reaction. Corey is Trump's mini-me. I am not sure what the right answer is to fix America's race problem. I only know that focussing on race as a qualifying category is most certainly not the right path.

Corey Stewart is a carpetbagger who came south to Virginia to mine the rich veins of racism and allegiance to the Confederacy that have strong undercurrents throughout Old Dominion. Stewart is a carbon copy of David Duke, one of the Klan’s the grand wizards who ran for a Senate seat in Louisiana and lost. Apparently Stewart doesn’t realize that Virginia is now a purple state. His only avenue to the Senate is through the fringe pockets of Confederate diehards in the Appalachian region of Virginia. It’s probably too late for Republicans across the country to put out the nasty fires that people like Stewart ignite in their racist appeals on the campaign trail. The president established a winning template in 2016 and since then, many GOP hopefuls have come out of the woodwork hoping to grab the brass ring the president claimed in his White House run. After all, white Americans are still the majority voting bloc so, playing the percentages, Stewart and his ilk see an upside to their naked appeals to racism.