Measuring Donald Trump’s Supporters for Intolerance (NYT Feb 2016)

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Lynn Vavreck FEB. 23, 2016

Exit poll data from the South Carolina primary revealed that nearly half the Republicans who turned out on Saturday wanted undocumented immigrants to be deported immediately ...

Data from Public Policy Polling show that a third of Mr. Trump’s backers in South Carolina support barring gays and lesbians from entering the country. This is nearly twice the support for this idea (17 percent) among Ted Cruz’s and Marco Rubio’s voters and nearly five times the support of John Kasich’s and Ben Carson’s supporters (7 percent).

... YouGov data reveal that a third of Mr. Trump’s (and Mr. Cruz’s) backers believe that Japanese internment during World War II was a good idea, while roughly 10 percent of Mr. Rubio’s and Mr. Kasich’s supporters do. Mr. Trump’s coalition is also more likely to disagree with the desegregation of the military (which was ordered in 1948 by Harry Truman) than other candidates’ supporters are ...

According to P.P.P., 70 percent of Mr. Trump’s voters in South Carolina wish the Confederate battle flag were still flying on their statehouse grounds ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/upshot/measuring-donald-trumps-supporters-for-intolerance.html

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1. Trump bringing anti-Muslim prejudice into mainstream

By Christopher Ingraham
August 1

... A December 2015 Quinnipiac poll found that 28 percent of all Americans said that "mainstream Islam encourages violence against non-Muslims." Among Republicans, that figure was 47 percent. Only 13 percent of Democrats said the same ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/01/donald-trump-is-bringing-anti-muslim-prejudice-into-the-mainstream/

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2. Majority think Trump's judge comments racist

June 08, 2016, 02:04 pm
By Jessie Hellmann

Trump called Curiel’s Hispanic heritage “an absolute conflict” in three Trump University civil fraud lawsuits against the billionaire.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee said Curiel’s “Mexican heritage" prevents him from being impartial toward Trump because of the presumptive GOP nominee's calls for a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Curiel was born in Indiana to Mexican immigrant parents.

The majority of Americans — 51 percent — think Trump's comments were racist, according to a YouGov poll ...

... 43 percent of Republicans thought Trump was right to complain about the judge, compared to 8 percent of Democrats ...

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/282718-majority-of-americans-think-trumps-judge-comments-are

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3. Nearly 20% of Trump Fans Think Freeing the Slaves Was a Bad Idea

Daniel White
Feb. 24, 2016

Donald Trump appears to have high levels of support among the nation’s intolerant population, according to a New York Times deep dive into polling data.

The Times found that nearly 20% of Trump supporters did not approve of freeing the slaves, according to a January YouGov/Economist poll that asked respondents if they supported or disapproved of “the executive order that freed all slaves in the states that were in rebellion against the federal government”—Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ...

http://time.com/4236640/donald-trump-racist-supporters/

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4. Donald Trump has a racist fan club

By Robert Mann
on September 02, 2016 at 7:52 AM
updated September 02, 2016 at 7:53 AM

... "I'm overjoyed to see Donald Trump and most Americans embrace most of the issues I've championed for years," former KKK leader and Louisiana U.S Senate candidate David Duke said when announcing his candidacy this summer ...

The house organ of this quasi-white supremacist crusade is the conservative website Breitbart News, whose former executive chairman, Steve Bannon, now runs Trump's campaign ...

Among the many loathsome creatures writing for Breitbart is tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, permanently suspended from Twitter in July after he sparked a racist Twitter assault on Leslie Jones ...

In a recent op-ed in The Washington Post, however, conservative journalist Ben Shapiro described Breitbart as a "cesspool of the alt-right" and "a party organ, a pathetic cog in the Trump-Media Complex and a gathering place for white nationalists." Shapiro would know of which he speaks. He was Breitbart's editor-at-large until March ...

http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2016/09/donald_trumps_racist_fan_club.html

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5. Trump aide accused of antisemitism

September 1, 2016

The chief executive of Donald Trump's presidential campaign has been accused of making antisemitic remarks by his ex-wife.

It is claimed that conservative filmmaker and media boss Stephen Bannon said he did not want his daughters "going to school with Jews".

In a court statement in 2007, Mr Bannon's former wife, Mary Louise Piccard, also alleged that he had not wanted his girls to attend a top Los Angeles private school because "he doesn't like Jews and he doesn't like the way they raise their kids to be 'whiny brats'." ...

http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/162678/trump-aide-accused-antisemitism

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6. Picture of 1960s Alt Right in Action. The parents of current alt right Trump supporters

Some of these people are still alive and you know they had kids who are now probably Trump supporters.