including once tweeting "culture and demographics are our destiny. we can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies." congressman king has for the most part gone unrebuked by his own party for all of this, even as he has moved from the fringe closer to his party's mainstream. but apparently now the gop has decided steve king is keeping it a little too real after he told "the new york times," "white nationalist, white supremacist, western civilization, how did that language become offensive? why did i sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?" you're saying the quiet part out loud again, congressman. and i'm not sure exactly why this time is different, but this particular quote has unleashed quite a torrent of criticism of steve king from his fellow republicans, including support for his new 2020 primary challenger. tim scott, the senate's only black republican writes in "the washington post," "some in our party wonder why republicans are constantly accused of racism. it is because of our silence when things like this are said." so why does the republican party