October 19, 2018 03:50 PM UTC

Check Out Brian Watson's Loopy Book List

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• by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: Following an intervention by our longtime friend Ali Hasan, Brian Watson removes The Myth of Islamic Tolerance from his recommended reading list.

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In addition to the campaign website for Republican Treasurer candidate Brian Watson, today a reader forwarded us a link to a page on Watson’s personal website–because, you know, guys of Watson’s aspiring level of self-importance all have websites.

On Brian Watson’s personal website, you’ll find his list of recommended books to read!

And it’s, as they say, a doozy:

The above is just part of Watson’s full reading list, which runs the gamut from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged to a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte to a number of books by far right agit-prop author Dinesh D’Souza.

Legitimately troubling is Watson’s recommendation of The Myth of Islamic Tolerance by infamous Islamophobe Robert Spencer, whose writings helped inspire Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik and was banned from the United Kingdom in 2013 for spreading hatred.

That’s a recommendation we’ll pass on–and we’ll add closet xenophobe to Watson’s growing list of problems.