While there may be a poll for everything, a new HuffPo/YouGov poll shows that Trump continues to trend towards “white nationalism”, despite his latest disclaimer that “it’s a small group”.
The poll was taken after last week’s mass shootings at two New Zealand mosques. The alleged gunman, an Australian white supremacist, mentioned the president by name as part of a rambling manifesto. Trump denounced the shooting as a “horrible act” but did not directly express condolences to the Muslim community in New Zealand or in the U.S. Trump also said he did not see a rise in white nationalism around the world.
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Just over half of Americans said white nationalism is a danger to the U.S.: 52 percent of the public said it poses at least a somewhat serious threat to the country, with 30 percent calling it very serious.
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Trump’s pimping of Breitbart is part of that reinforcing trend.
Inciting hatred towards Muslims is part of a multimillion-dollar propaganda business funded by some of the most prominent right-wing donors and organizations in the United States, including many that have direct ties to the Trump administration.
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Mercer — the top contributor to Trump’s presidential campaign — is affiliated with a slew of right-wing organizations, but he is perhaps most notorious for launching the now-defunct, scandal-plagued data firm Cambridge Analytica and funding the far-right Breitbart News network.
Robert Mercer, his daughter Rebekah, and the vehicles they use to influence policy and society are a case study in for-profit hate, showcasing the inner workings of an anti-Muslim propaganda industry whose tentacles stretch from the fringes of the internet to establishment think tanks — all the way into the White House.
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And then there’s simply Trump’s own ignorance.
Before Trump made the comments, he told his supporters that his anecdote has been taken from history books — where he apparently read it — but historians say this cannot be farther from the truth. Historians who have studied General Pershing claim that he made no account of ever having committed such an act in his memoir, and there is no written record which can possibly corroborate Trump’s fake story.
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