The white supremacists still love them some Donald Trump:
“God bless this man,” exulted the Daily Stormer, a white supremacist website. [...]
“I’ve never met him, and I cannot read his mind any better than you can,” said Mr. Taylor, 64, the Virginia-based founder of the New Century Foundation and editor of its website, American Renaissance. “But someone who wants to send home all illegal immigrants and at least temporarily ban Muslim immigration is acting in the interest of whites, whether consciously or not.”
That’s the interest of whites where the interest of whites equals bad stuff for other groups; white people advancing at the expense of others rather than by all of humanity advancing together.
But it’s not like Trump is out asking for these endorsements, right? So is it fair to blame him?
“You can’t help who admires you, but when white supremacists start endorsing you for president, you ought to start asking why,” said Richard Cohen, the president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks white-power groups.
Yes. Exactly. That. But let’s be clear: Trump may be especially blatant about it, but his agenda is just a more open and honest version of what the Republican Party has been advancing for years. Fear and hatred of immigrants, of black and brown people, of non-Christians, of women. He may have exchanged the dog whistle for a bullhorn, but the core message is the same.
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