Trump and the white supremacists
News & opinion by Peter Montgomery
April 02, 2016
... “You can’t help who admires you,” says Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. “But when white supremacists start endorsing you for president, you ought to start asking why.”
Less than two weeks after Trump launched his campaign with ugly rhetoric about Mexican immigrants, the neo-Nazi news site The Daily Stormer endorsed him. Since then, he’s attracted praise from icons of the movement like former KKK leader David Duke, who told whites it was “treason against your heritage” not to support Trump.
White nationalists have even invested in robo-calls promoting Trump’s candidacy in states like Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Minnesota.
Trump’s incendiary rhetoric against Muslims and Latinos is bringing racist groups like these more openly into our politics. His campaign has become “a great outreach tool” for the KKK, gushes one Klan activist. According to Media Matters, it’s “a fundraising engine for white nationalist media” ...
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