The Southern Poverty Law Center is reporting a surge in white nationalists running for office in the United States. This includes candidates advocating for racial segregation, Holocaust deniers, and the whole deplorable platform. By their count, at least eight known white nationalists are running, most of them as Republicans. I’d argue that given Trump’s 2020 campaign is in motion, that number should be nine.
MSNBC’s Morgan Radford interviewed several of these candidates and it is crystal clear Donald Trump is empowering them and encouraging them to seek office—and that should terrify the hell out of all of us. Watch below.
As Republican strategist Rob Stutzman says in the interview, these candidates and their hateful views need to be repudiated at the ballot box.
Here is a fantastic Vox video explaining the rise of white nationalists and how Donald Trump earned their support in 2016 (spoiler alert: he’s a fucking racist and he’s speaking their language).