Running Scared and Towards Trump and the Nearest Cliff

The Real Yet Not So Subtle Message in Fact

The heart of this article is more correct than imagined at first blush.  It has key elements that reinforce everything you’ve heard, seen, or thought about Donald J. Trump as our next president – the PR master or guru (take your pick) as it were.

The headline and entire article is from NY Times here:

For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance

Few politicians were better prepared than Trump to harness the shifts in attitudes by whites and their open racism against blacks and other minorities, which still remains among the most powerful taboos in American politics.

Since Trump started his campaign, a lot more white Americans are feel freer to express their worries about illegal immigrants and dislike of Islam. In Mr. Trump’s hands, the two ideas merged. For example, recall that during Mr. Obama’s presidency, Trump has become America’s most prominent “birther one huge sounding board.” Trump from time-to-time still questions Mr. Obama’s American citizenship and more than once has suggested that he could be a Muslim.

First to sign on to the Trump campaign came from the founder (founded in 2013) and 32-year-old neo-Nazi named Andrew Anglin and his organ: “The Daily Stormer.” 

That site is the most prominent online gathering places for white nationalists and anti-Semites, with sections devoted to “The Jewish Problem” and “Race War.” Anglin explained that although he had some disagreements with him, Mr. Trump was the only candidate willing to speak the truth about Mexican, adding that “Trump is willing to say what most Americans think: It’s time to deport these people. He is also willing to call them out as criminal rapists, murderers and drug dealers.”

Since then it seems, the Trump campaign has electrified the world of white nationalists. They had long been absent from mainstream politics, taking refuge at obscure conferences and in largely anonymous havens online. Most believed that the Republican Party had been subverted and captured by liberal racial dictums.

Many in this new generation of nationalists shun the trappings of old-fashioned white supremacy, appropriating the language of multiculturalism to recast themselves as white analogues to La Raza and other civil rights organizations. They call themselves “race realists” or “identitarians” (That is: Conservatives for whom racial heritage is more important than ideology).

Across that spectrum, and in Trump’s own descriptions of immigrants as vectors of disease, violent crime and social decay, they heard their own dialect and since rally behind him.

Another popular figure in the white nationalist world, one Richard Spencer, age 38, writer and activist whose Montana-based nonprofit is dedicated to “…the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States.” He has said he did not believe that Mr. Trump subscribed to his entire worldview. But he was struck that Mr. Trump seemed to understand and echo many of his group’s ideas intuitively, and take them to a broader audience.

Yeah, that Donald J. Trump master the PR game and skilled in this sort of stunt – divide and then conquer and win at any cost – I ask: What would that cost be, Mr. and Mrs. America?

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