TRUMP, MICHAEL SAVAGE RW RADIO HOST: AVATARS FOR WHITE RAGE, XENOPHOBIA, Salon

Feb. 12, Thom Hartmann and Jan Frel of AlterNet discuss the close association and ideology of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and nativist Michael Savage, skilled media manipulator and RW Radio Host of "The Savage Nation" Show. Trump has studied the outlier shock-jock who has a broad audience throughout the US, and Trump has also appeared on his radio show.
The CORE MESSAGE of Xenophobia, Borders, Language and Culture for the two Right Wing Extremist Outliers is sympatico.
Today on CNN Trump remarked about his support from figures like evangelical Jerry Falwell, Jr. and Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, but claimed he knew nothing of David Duke's endorsement, the former KKK Grand Wizard.
Savage says he is a member of Mar-a-Lago, Trumps' Palm Beach, FL club which he visits twice a year. Savage, whose real name is Michael Weiner was banned from the UK for his inflammatory hate speech.
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*Salon, "Donald Trump's Shock-Jock Campaign: The White Nationalist Stole His Whole Shtick from Michael Savage. Like the Wingnut Radio Host, Trump Has Weaponized and Monetized America's Greatest Natural Resource: WHITE RAGE", by Adam Johnson of AlterNet, Feb. 10, 2016.
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*BORDERS, LANGUAGE, CULTURE*

The Savage Nation radio show’s oft-repeated slogan could very well be Trump’s own: “Borders, Language, Culture.” Savage and Trump aren’t just avatars for white male rage, they’re the perfect embodiment of the capitalist hero – nominally independent, successful, and constantly self-promoting. Trump made his fortune parlaying his father’s real estate empire into one much greater, Savage parlayed his love of nutritional ethnomedicine into a new age plant-based healing brand. Both used this early success as a springboard to much greater media empires. Both channel the id of the merchant class that’s a large part of the Republican activist and donor base, and both understand that the theater of “no nonsense truth telling” is far more important than the truth itself.

Above all, it’s important to note that what animates both men is a very specific form of White Nationalism, water-downed just to the point of social acceptability. Whereas traditional Lee Atwater racism was about branding and euphemism and animated by a desire for the corporate wing of the GOP to use racism in its service — rather than the other way around — Trump and Savage‘s white nationalism is simply about what it is: actual white nationalism. Rid of overt racism and steered clear of anti-Semitism, it is White Nationalism for its own sake. This “authenticity” reads in both Trump and Savage and garners a widespread degree of support among disgruntled whites for just this reason. The “he just tells it how it is” line is another way of saying: white nationalism untethered from corporatism, and entirely earnest in its charge.

Both have built up a following by their aggressive, combative style, often by the simple act of lashing out — even at traditionally right wing sacred cows. Both share a hatred of “free trade” deals like NAFTA and the TPP which have helped gut the white working class. Both have attacked veterans, Trump by infamously going after Senator John McCain for being shot down over Vietnam, Savage by belittling PTSD which he does not believe is a real disease. Both are not overtly religious but share in the war on Christian mythology which, as it turns out, is more than enough to garner widespread evangelical support.

*XENOPHOBIA IS THE THING*

The primary, animating cause of the Trump phenomenon and that of the Savage media brand is one in the same: xenophobia — protecting white people from impending demographic doom. “Hopefully,” one Trump supporter said of Trump at a rally in Mobile, Alabama last August, “he’s going to sit there and say, ‘When I become elected president, what we’re going to do is we’re going to make the border a vacation spot, it’s going to cost you $25 for a permit, and then you get $50 for every confirmed kill [of an undocumented worker]. That’d be one nice thing.”
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/10/donald_trump_shock_jock_candidate_partner/