Donald Trump and the embrace of the KKK: The Klan gives a de facto endorsement to the Trump campaign
Donald Trump and the embrace of the KKK: The Klan gives a de facto endorsement to the Trump campaign on the front page of its newspaper
The Klan's paper was effusive about "Make America Great Again," as a hopeful return to "a White Christian Republic"
CHAUNCEY DEVEGA TUESDAY, OCT 18, 2016 06:59 AM CDT
The Republican Party is the United States’ largest de facto white identity organization.
Its primary electoral strategy for the last fifty years has consisted of using a combination of overt white racism and subtle “dog whistles” to win white voters. New research by political scientist Michael Tesler shows the power of this strategy: “old fashioned” overt racism now predicts if a given white voter will support the Republican Party. Public opinion polling data from Reuters/Ipsos has revealed that Trump’s supporters are more likely than other Republican voters to believe that black people are more “criminal,” “unintelligent,” “lazy” and “violent” than white people. Demographics are important here as well: the Republican Party’s base is approximately 90 percent white while the Democratic Party’s constituency is multiracial and multigenerational.
Donald Trump is the current standard bearer for the Republican Party and a political moment where conservatism and racism are now fully and nakedly one and the same thing. This is why white nationalists such as David Duke — as well as the other bigots and hate mongers who constitute the so-called “alt right” — have flocked to the Trump-Pence ticket and embraced Trump as their champion and as a delivery system for mainstreaming their regressive white supremacist beliefs into the American body politic.
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