A college art exhibit at East Tennessee State University has stirred outrage among Republican lawmakers for its depictions of Republican lawmakers, including President-elect Donald Trump, alongside swastikas and Ku Klux Klan hoods.

A response to fascism is how artist Joel Gibbs described his “Evolution” piece, in which a swastika morphs into a cross behind a portrait of House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Tennessee news outlet WJHL reported.

“The fascism we seem to have in this country has attached itself to extreme right Christian groups,” Gibbs said. “So I just figured by having a cross evolve into a swastika with him there smirking, it would sort of just give a … it’s a very large political cartoon in my sensibility.”

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