The Ku Klux Klan is using Donald Trump as a talking point in its outreach efforts.

[kpete]

The Ku Klux Klan is using Donald Trump as a talking point in its outreach efforts. Stormfront, the most prominent American white supremacist website, is upgrading its servers in part to cope with a Trump traffic spike. And former Louisiana Rep. David Duke reports that the businessman has given more Americans cover to speak out loud about white nationalism than at any time since his own political campaigns in the 1990s.

As hate group monitors at the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League warn that Trump’s rhetoric is conducive to anti-Muslim violence, white nationalist leaders are capitalizing on his candidacy to invigorate and expand their movement.
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“Demoralization has been the biggest enemy and Trump is changing all that,” said Stormfront founder Don Black, who reports additional listeners and call volume to his phone-in radio show, in addition to the site’s traffic bump. Black predicts that the white nationalist forces set in motion by Trump will be a legacy that outlives the businessman’s political career. “He’s certainly creating a movement that will continue independently of him even if he does fold at some point.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/donald-trump-white-supremacists-216620#ixzz3tvLDpJ2E

[pampango]

1. KKK aside (never thought I would say that) the problem with Trump spewing his hate, even if

it eventually destroys his candidacy and harms the republican party, is that it provides encouragement and support to the racists and xenophobes who normally exist mainly in dark corners of society.