{"id":103945,"date":"2016-08-20T19:43:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T03:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=103945"},"modified":"2016-08-20T19:43:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T03:43:06","slug":"wp-racial-realists-are-cheered-by-trumps-latest-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=103945","title":{"rendered":"WP: \u2018Racial realists\u2019 are cheered by Trump\u2019s latest strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Post<\/a>: OAKTON, Va. \u2014 Jared Taylor hits play and the first Donald Trump ad of the general election unfolds across his breakfast table. Syrian refugees streaming across a border. Hordes of immigrants, crowded onto trains.
\n\u201cDonald Trump\u2019s America is secure,\u201d rumbles a narrator. \u201cTerrorists and dangerous criminals kept out. The border, secure; our families, safe.\u201d
\nTaylor, one of America\u2019s foremost \u201cracialists,\u201d is impressed and relieved. \u201cThat\u2019s a powerful appeal,\u201d he said. \u201cIf he can just stick to that, he is in very good shape.\u201d
\nFrom his Fairfax County home, Taylor has edited the white nationalist magazine American Renaissance and organized racialist conferences under the \u201cAmRen\u201d banner. He said that Trump should \u201cconcentrate on his natural constituency, which is white people,\u201d suggesting that winning 65 percent of the white vote would overwhelm any Democratic gains with minorities.
\nWhen Trump made Breitbart News CEO Steve Bannon his campaign\u2019s chief executive this week, Taylor found reasons to celebrate. It was the latest sign for white nationalists, once dismissed as fringe, that their worldview was gaining popularity and that the old Republican Party was coming to an end.
\nThe rise of the alt-right \u2014 named for the Alternative Right website that the \u201cidentitarian\u201d nationalist Richard Spencer set up in 2010 and adopted by those opposed to multiculturalism and mass immigration \u2014 has come to define how many of its adherents see Trump. There\u2019s less talk now about a \u201cpivot,\u201d or a moment when Trump will adopt the ideas of people that he conquered. His strategy now resembles the alt-right dream of maximizing the white vote \u2014 even as polling shows his standing with white voters falls short of Mitt Romney\u2019s in 2012.
\nTrump\u2019s newest speeches, read from a teleprompter, hit all of their favorite notes. \u201cI don\u2019t think Trump had mentioned \u2018sanctuary cities\u2019 previously,\u201d Spencer said in an interview. \u201cThere\u2019s reason to believe that Bannon is returning him to his powerful, populist message \u2014 indeed, honing it. [Former campaign chairman Paul] Manafort was turning Trump into a standard Republican, with the [Mike] Pence [vice-presidential] choice, the economic policy, talk of how \u2018Hillary is the real racist,\u2019 if not quite in those words. Bannon is making me hope again, making Trump Trump again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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