Ted Busiek is a Republican candidate for the Massachusetts Senate—and a big fan of Donald Trump.

Over the weekend, Busiek tweeted his support for the Donald's ability to stymie opponents: "DONALD TRUMP. Putting self-righteous faggots in their place since 1993," wrote Busiek. "How I love this fellow."

Busiek, a 30-year-old Air Force veteran, linked to a video clip of Trump from back in 1993, appearing before a Congression hearing on Indian casinos.

"If you look at some of the reservations that you've approved... they don't look like Indians to me. And they don't look like Indians to Indians. And a lot of people are laughing at it," Trump said. "Only Indians can have the gaming... Why are you being discriminatory? Why is it that the Indians don't pay tax, but everybody else does? I do."

Busiek told the State House News Service he didn't mean "faggot" in a "hateful sense." (Because there's a non-hateful way to use it?)

He insisted he was only saying the congressman was "kind of being a jerk," and insisted it would be "very unlikely" that he'd use that word in public if elected.

"It's hard for me to get exercised over naughty words," Busiek said. "You can insult somebody without being hateful."

He claims he has no ill will toward gay people, though he opposes marriage equality and adoption by same-sex couples.

And in June, Busiek told Governor Charlie Baker not to sign a transgender-rights bill, tweeting that "these perverts aren't who got you elected, and pandering won't make them your friends."

On a campaign site, Busiek listed as part of his platform, "the passage of laws patterned after those recently adopted in Russia and other forward-thinking nations to prohibit the promotion of homosexuality or other unhealthy sexual behavior to children."

Nonetheless, in a blogpost Tuesday, he blamed "social justice warriors" for finding fault where none lies.

I don’t really know anything about the politician; he was essentially a symbol, just a guy in some old C-SPAN footage providing a demonstration of the sort of hypocritical moral-preening that Donald Trump has become so popular for his refusal to humor...

The angle here is that the word “faggot” is offensive to decent sensibilities because it’s a derogatory slang term for homosexual. That it has an even older slang meaning of “old woman,” or that in modern parlance it’s more often used to mean “obnoxious person” (as was obviously the sense in which I meant it), were entirely immaterial.

Neither etymology nor present-day reality are relevant to the new lexicography of the neo-Puritan Social Justice Warriors.

Busiek has an uphill battle in November: The notoriously progressive Bay State passed marriage equality in 2003 and the Massachusetts state Senate is currently led by Stan Rosenberg (D-Amherst), a gay man.

Busiek, who insists he represents "anybody who works for a living," has a rather limited platform of just attacking identity politics and "social justice warriors," whom he says invent things to be victimized about.