The National Policy Institute, which the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a "white supremacist" group, will hold a dinner and cocktail party in the rotunda of the Ronald Reagan building to cheer and discuss their favorite new candidate—Donald Trump.
Organizer Richard Spencer did an interview with WUSA 9 News, which you can see below. In the interview Spencer says he expects 150 attendees and although he won’t be attending, Donald Trump is the man of the hour:
In Trump, Spencer sees a figure “energizing” the white nationalist movement. So on Saturday, conference attendees will enjoy cocktails, dinner, desert, and three speakers praising and parsing the “
Trump phenomenon.”
“He’s fighting for us. He’s saying we’re going to be great again. We’re going to win again. And there’s this implicit identity to this. There’s this implicit nationalism,” Spencer said in an interview Wednesday. “I think he’s evoking a lot of feelings amongst people, and I think implicit in what Donald Trump is doing is a conception of America as a European country.”
In the interview, Richard Spencer says he definitely plans to vote for Trump but neither he nor his organization will be endorsing Trump. Why? Because they know it could be seen as a negative for the wider public. Better to sit back and watch their favorite candidate get elected without their endorsement.
“We’re not really helping politicians by making endorsements. So I think actually we should distance ourselves from Donald Trump in that sense,” Spencer said.
Too late, Spencer. Too late. The pointy white hat is out of the bag on this one.
Richard Spencer is seen as young star in the white supremacy movement. Here’s what the Southern Poverty Law Center has to say about him:
As head of the National Policy Institute (NPI), Richard Spencer is one of the country’s most successful young white nationalist leaders — a suit-and-tie version of the white supremacists of old, a kind pf professional racist in khakis. Spencer advocates for an Aryan homeland for the supposedly dispossessed white race and calls for “peaceful ethnic cleansing” to halt the “deconstruction” of European culture.
He seems nice. How does one go about “peaceful ethnic cleansing”? Never mind. I don’t want to know.