Gaetz Hires His Soul Brother As New Staffer

Matt Gaetz has hired a new staffer for his office who is at least as reprehensible as Gaetz is, quite possibly even more so.

Daily Beast has a run down on Andrew Kloster, and he's a Republican's Republican. Think of all the negative connotations normally associated with Republicans, especially Gaetz, and this guy has it by the bucket load. Kloster is a self-described "raging misogynist" and from the get go, you can see why Gaetz thought he was a good hire:

“Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish.”

It would seem bad enough if that internet comment from the newly hired congressional counsel for Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was about women. But this statement criticizing the notion of consent—which Gaetz’s counsel, Andrew Kloster, posted in the comments section of a Volokh Conspiracy post sometime around 2013—came in reply to a blog titled, “Government Out of Bedrooms, but into Barnyards,” which endorsed a libertarian framework for rejecting consent as a legitimate basis for bans on bestiality.

Kloster—a self-described “raging misogynist” who was hired in Gaetz’s D.C. office last month—is a prolific tweeter. He seems to find a particular thrill in controversy, which he often folds into his brand of “new right” contrarian conservatism.

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