{"id":96524,"date":"2016-05-18T14:56:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T22:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=96524"},"modified":"2016-05-18T14:56:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T22:56:05","slug":"white-nationalists-see-advancement-through-donald-trumps-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=96524","title":{"rendered":"White Nationalists See Advancement Through Donald Trump\u2019s Candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beth Reinhard, Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n

White nationalists are hailing Donald Trump\u2019s elevation to presumptive Republican presidential nominee, while also trying to boost their own political profiles and activity.<\/p>\n

Although Mr. Trump has spurned these extreme groups\u2019 support, the level of interest within them for the White House candidate rivals that for segregationist George Wallace, who won five states in the 1968 election, and for conservative Republican Pat Buchanan, who denounced multiculturalism in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

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While his policy prescriptions proved popular with GOP primary voters, Mr. Trump is now the presumptive nominee of a party that has struggled in recent presidential elections to expand its appeal beyond white voters. At the same time, his hard-line immigration policy and high profile are big lures for extreme groups seeking to elevate their status and views.<\/p>\n

Campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said Mr. Trump \u201chas disavowed and will continue to disavow the support of any such groups associated with a message of hate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cTrump\u2019s candidacy has absolutely electrified the radical right,\u201d said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil-rights organization that tracks extremist groups.<\/p>\n

People who identify as white nationalists, white-rights advocates or race realists say that even if Mr. Trump\u2019s views don\u2019t exactly line up with their own, they appreciate his willingness to speak his mind, regardless of the backlash.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main reason white nationalists support Donald Trump is that he is the real deal,\u201d said Mr. Johnson, the rejected California delegate. \u201cI speak from the heart and so does he.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attendance at this coming weekend\u2019s annual conference hosted by American Renaissance, which publishes a website on topics including eugenics and alleged IQ differences between races, is expected to double to 300 people, said editor Jared Taylor, in part because of Mr. Trump\u2019s success.<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump says what millions of Americans have thought for years\u2013and is much too popular to be silenced,\u201d reads a notice about the event near Nashville, Tenn., that is described as a \u201ccelebration of our world brotherhood of Europeans.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Mr. Taylor did a robocall earlier this year before the primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire in which he said: \u201cWe don\u2019t need Muslims. We need smart, well-educated white people who will assimilate to our culture. Vote Trump.\u201d The call was funded by an outside group and not approved by the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n

Exit polls show large majorities of Republican primary and caucus voters agree with Mr. Trump\u2019s plan to ban Muslim immigrants, at least temporarily. Mr. Trump has said the ban is necessary to prevent terrorist attacks because the process of screening immigrants is inadequate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very encouraging when someone of the prominence of the Republican presumptive nominee says some of the same things we\u2019ve been saying for years,\u201d Mr. Taylor said. \u201cWho needs Muslims? Who needs Mexicans? Once you ask those questions, you think, \u2018Who needs Haitians?\u2019 Mr. Trump is reacting in an almost visceral way to the idea of whites becoming a minority.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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