Who will be the future House GOP Leader post-McCarthy?

[Pollster]

Scalise. Definitely Scalise.

He's the most natural fit for the alt-right/white-nationalist theme the Republican Party is now taking under Trump. McCarthy and some of the other old guard, bless them, come from a different time.

Hysterical, borderline defamatory hyperbole like this is part of the reason he was almost murdered

A. The guy speaks at white nationalist events. What I wrote is factual.
B. Normalizing racism and alt-right mythology gets us Charlottesville and innocents beaten up or run down by cars.
C. He was not singled out by the shooter for his record; the guy was aiming for Republicans without discrimination.

Scalise confirmed this in 2014

Reportedly said he was "like David Duke without the baggage"