Presumptive Democratic congresswoman Darializa Avila Chevalier's opposition to interracial relationships has earned her words of approval from a surprising source, David Duke.
The former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard turned Louisiana lawmaker said he agreed with her desire to keep the bloodlines pure. Chevalier's position on interracial relationships stems from a now-deleted social media post from September 2019 in which she criticized black and Arab men for "fetishizing ugly colonizer women." Chevalier, who describes herself as "Afro-Latina" and has said she operates "within the black queer feminist lens," is not Somali.
Shared Views with David Duke
Duke and Chevalier have more in common than may meet the eye. Duke's insurgent 1991 Louisiana gubernatorial campaign, where he was effectively the GOP nominee, caused an uproar in the national Republican Party, which ultimately supported the Democrat (the famously corrupt Edwin Edwards, who won). Chevalier's extreme left-wing views, including those on race, are today causing similar ferment and embarrassment among Democrats, but so far, the national party has yet to disavow her.
The political journalist Mark Halperin on Monday quoted an unnamed "Democratic Party stalwart" fretting that, "Chevalier is our David Duke. She is poisoning the possibility of a Democratic majority."
Duke has in the past found common ground with far-left Democrats over their shared hatred of Israel. In 2019, he called Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), who, unlike Chevalier, is Somali, "the most important Member of the US Congress" after she accused Jewish lawmakers of dual loyalty to Israel.
In his call with the Washington Free Beacon, Duke said he also found much to like in New York City's socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose support of Chevalier was pivotal to her primary victory.