Is George Santos Gay? It’s Time to Examine Tokenism and Political Grift
[Image generated using MidJourney] Here, have a portrait of George Santos, who liked to claim he was the embodiment of the American Dream! As you have probably heard, Santos is a new Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, recently elected to represent a district in New York at the youthful age of 34. You probably also heard that he lied about some things. Well, most things. Santos' political biography during his successful run for Congress stated that his maternal grandparents were Jewish Ukrainians who fled the Holocaust to Brazil. Then his parents immigrated to the U.S., making him a proud American Jew. When his political stances were attacked as fascist on Twitter, he snapped back, "You just pulled the Nazi card on the grandson of Holocaust refugees." Not so; his maternal grandparents were born in Brazil and were Catholic, as is his family today. Santos' response to genealogists tracking his ancestry and discovering he’d lied about it was to