Richard Spencer is the President and Director of The National Policy Institute, which sounds innocent enough, right? Here is their mission statement:
NPI is an independent organization dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world.
In short, they are white nationalists and their views are as vile as they come. Here’s a taste of his special kind of hatred. From the Southern Poverty Law Center:
“Our dream is a new society, an ethno-state that would be a gathering point for all Europeans. It would be a new society based on very different ideals than, say, the Declaration of Independence."
And:
“Martin Luther King Jr., a fraud and degenerate in his life, has become the symbol and cynosure of White Dispossession and the deconstruction of Occidental civilization. We must overcome!”
Their goal is a “white ethno-state.”
Spencer also has termed his mission a “sort of white Zionism,” that would inspire whites with the dream of such a homeland just as Zionism helped spur the establishment of Israel. A white ethno-state would be an Altneuland—an old, new country—he said, attributing the term to Theodor Herzl, a founding father of Zionism.
This week Richard Spencer and his White Nationalist followers gathered in Washington, D.C. to celebrate Donald Trump’s election victory. In a bone-chilling video from The Atlantic, Richard Spencer whipped the crowd into a frenzy. Members leapt to their feet, applauding and giving the Nazi salute: