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Initech

(100,087 posts)
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 04:52 PM Dec 2015

White Supremacists Credit Trump With "Surging Interest"

And no, this isn't from the Onion.

As the Republican Party grows more and more concerned about Donald Trump, at least one group is loving his rise to prominence: white supremacists. Politico reports that the white supremacist website Stormfront has had to upgrade its servers to handle all the new traffic coming their way since Trump took off in the polls; the Ku Klux Klan confirms that Trump has served as a major talking point for feeling out recruits.

"He's made it okay to talk about these incredible concerns of European Americans today," former KKK grand wizard and onetime Louisiana representative David Duke said.

Hate group monitors at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Anti-Defamation League warn that Trump's statements about banning Muslims and rounding up Mexicans have "energized" racist intellectuals and neo-Nazis. "When well-known public figures make these kind of statements in the public square, they are taken as a permission-giving by criminal elements who go out and act on their words," SPLC's Mark Potak told Politico.

But some white supremacists remain skeptical of Trump's plans. "Do we honestly believe that he's going to block all the Muslims and deport all the illegals? I think he's doing a lot of this just to signal to people that he's on their side," Brad Griffin of the white nationalist blog Occidental Dissent said.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-supremacist-groups-credit-surging-interest-to-donald-trump-hes-certainly-creating-a-movement/ar-AAgfgss?li=BBnb4R7&ocid=spartandhp


Be afraid. Be very very very very afraid.
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White Supremacists Credit Trump With "Surging Interest" (Original Post) Initech Dec 2015 OP
Wonder if they know favored-daughter Ivanka is an Orthodox Jew. MosheFeingold Dec 2015 #1
I wonder if The Combover himself knows that! KamaAina Dec 2015 #4
*sigh* Coventina Dec 2015 #2
Not one tweet from the Donald to denounce them or a public denouncment SummerSnow Dec 2015 #3

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
1. Wonder if they know favored-daughter Ivanka is an Orthodox Jew.
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 04:54 PM
Dec 2015

I presume her mother was Jewish, but it is possible she converted.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
4. I wonder if The Combover himself knows that!
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 05:51 PM
Dec 2015

Given the way he treated a gathering of repuke Jews last week, you have to wonder.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027412585

edit: And she's the one he wants to, well, you know.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027158150

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