May, an avowed Nazi got 43 percent of the vote in the Republican primary for North Carolina attorney general, winning forty-five of 100 counties, coming only seventy-five votes from taking the county encompassing Winston-Salem. (“There are many closet Nazis in the Republican Party. Most conservatives are closet Nazis,” he said. “If you scratch a conservative, you’ll find a Nazi underneath, just as if you scratch a liberal, you’ll find a Communist.”)
