New Yorker: The Fearful and the Frustrated- Donald Trump’s nationalist coalition takes shape—for now
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Ever since the Tea Partys peak, in 2010, and its fade, citizens on the American far rightPatriot militias, border vigilantes, white supremacistshave searched for a standard-bearer, and now theyd found him. In the past, white nationalists, as they call themselves, had described Trump as a Jew-lover, but the new tone of his campaign was a revelation. Richard Spencer is a self-described identitarian who lives in Whitefish, Montana, and promotes white racial consciousness. At thirty-six, Spencer is trim and preppy, with degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago. He is the president and director of the National Policy Institute, a think tank, co-founded by William Regnery, a member of the conservative publishing family, that is dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of European people in the United States and around the world. The Southern Poverty Law Center calls Spencer a suit-and-tie version of the white supremacists of old. Spencer told me that he had expected the Presidential campaign to be an amusing freak show, but that Trump was refreshing. He went on, Trump, on a gut level, kind of senses that this is about demographics, ultimately. Were moving into a new America. He said, I dont think Trump is a white nationalist, but he did believe that Trump reflected an unconscious vision that white people havethat their grandchildren might be a hated minority in their own country. I think that scares us. They probably arent able to articulate it. I think its there. I think that, to a great degree, explains the Trump phenomenon. I think he is the one person who can tap into it.
Jared Taylor, the editor of American Renaissance, a white-nationalist magazine and Web site based in Oakton, Virginia, told me, in regard to Trump, Im sure he would repudiate any association with people like me, but his support comes from people who are more like me than he might like to admit.
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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-fearful-and-the-frustrated