That was the phrase that elevated the America First caucus from a yawn to full-on Twitter outrage.
As Slate magazine wrote: âGiven that non-historians usually understand
Anglo-Saxon to just mean
white, and that [Matt] Gaetz, [Louis] Gohmert, [Paul] Gosar, and [Marjorie Taylor] Greene arenât known for their interest in the anthropology of the British Isles, members of the press and public surmised that America First was going to be an openly white nationalist faction.â
It certainly didnât help that the language they used mirrored language once used in Ku Klux Klan recruiting fliers; these organizers are either ignorant of American history or know it all too well.