A just-right-in-length reading assignment today, courtesy of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch project.
President Trump’s Deputy Communications Director Julia Hahn had connections to the white nationalist movement around the time she joined the White House as an aide, based upon hundreds of private correspondences that were leaked to Hatewatch by a former colleague and friend.
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Additionally, the emails suggest that before Hahn joined the right-wing website Breitbart News as an editor, she attended a writer’s workshop with the white nationalist publishing house The Social Contract Press. Her story pitches to Breitbart News show influence of the type of white nationalist worldview espoused by VDARE and The Social Contract Press. For example, in one July 2016 pitch, Hahn wrote, “How many whites have been killed by blacks since Obama has been in office?” – apparently seeking to draw a parallel between the election of America’s first Black president and Black people murdering whites.
Hahn also hyped the doomed congressional candidacy of Wisconsin’s Paul Nehlen in her writing for Breitbart News across at least 36 posts. Nehlen eventually used the fans he gained from his Breitbart News attention and from his failed stab at politics to become a notorious cheerleader for white supremacist terrorism, calling mass murderers such as Anders Breivik, Dylann Roof and Brenton Tarrant “saints.”
Julia Hahn is also apparently very good friends with Stephen Miller and “sometimes gathers talking points for White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.” Birds of a pure white feather flock together...
While the news that white nationalists are embedded within the Trump administration may not be a surprise to some, the story is notable for the line it draws connecting fringe white supremacists like Peter Brimelow, founder of Vdare to the right-wing propaganda outlets Breitbart News and Fox News Channel’s Laura Ingraham show and then directly to the Trump administration.
I long for the days when even a hint of this kind of racism on the part of a White house staffer or media personality or politician would result in immediate dismissal and public condemnation and a good shunning.
Will end this post with a link to the SPL’s donations page, just so they can keep fighting the good fight.