GET ME REWRITE: Trump fuels surge in white nationalism

Top headline:  Capital News Service, 4/2/2020

Bottom headline:  Washington Post, 6/11/2022

Police in Idaho arrested 31 people who had face coverings, white-supremacist insignia, shields and an “operations plan” to riot near an LGBTQ Pride event on Saturday afternoon. Police said they were affiliated with Patriot Front, a white-supremacist group whose founder was among those arrested. 

Authorities received a tip about a “little army” loading into a U-Haul truck at a hotel Saturday afternoon, said Lee White, the police chief in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, a city of about 50,000 near the border with Washington. Local and state law enforcement pulled over the truck about 10 minutes later, White said at a news conference. 

Many of those arrested were wearing logos representing Patriot Front, which rebranded after one of its members plowed his car into a crowd of people protesting a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017, killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens.

5/30/2022 update, "Donald Trump:  When the looting starts, the shooting starts", starts here.

‘Looting’ Comment From Trump Dates Back to Racial Unrest of the 1960s. (The New York Times, 5/28/2020)

The phrase was used prominently by Walter E. Headley, Miami’s former police chief, in 1967 as he pledged a no-holds-barred response to a Christmas-season outbreak of violent crime in black neighborhoods that had left three people dead in attempted robberies. 

Mr. Headley suggested that his department’s tough tactics had kept Miami calm that year, even as race riots were convulsing dozens of other cities and leaving scores dead.

3/18/2020 update starts here.

Photo credit:  Center for Strategic and International Studies

Reported in Trump Defends Using ‘Chinese Virus’ Label, Ignoring Growing Criticism.  (The New York Times, 3/18/2020)


Original 3/18/2020 post, "Perhaps this is the reason why Donald Trump is resorting to heavy use of a nativist dog whistle", starts here.

Voice of America, 3/17/2020

Illustration from The Economist

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MAGA: The incidents of racism, anti-semitism, and nativism stack up in Trump's America.  (3/6/2020)

Pre-2020
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Iowa woman enrobes her nativism with Statue of Liberty reference.  (11/1/2016)
Thank you very much, Donald Trump.  11/1/2016)
Please give a warm welcome to our next speaker:  Donald Trump.  (9/26/2015)

Get me rewrite: White nationalist charged with making threats against a mostly Black group of protestors

Photo credit:  LinkedIn

Reported in Burlington man charged with making threats on Facebook against marchers protesting Racine police shooting .  (Madison,com, 2/23/2018)

Related reading
'We're Not Skinheads,' Says Man Hurt in Ashford House Beating.  (Tinley Park Patch, 5/23/2012)

Brandon Spiller says he's a victim. 

The 29-year-old Wisconsin resident was among those who met to dine at Ashford House in Tinley Park Saturday, only to be . His clan of about 15 to 20 included people from all over the country who were interested in joining the European Heritage Group, which he said was holding its first meeting around 12:30 p.m. in a back area of the .   

"We were just meeting for networking and helping people out and finding resources available in our area for those of European descent," he said. "It was just a meeting to get to know each other."

Brandon lists just 1 accomplishment on his LinkedIn profile.

The gaping maw: Trump gives a shout-out to some fine, fine boys

Trump Says ‘Alt-Left’ Deserves Blame for Violence in Charlottesville.  (New York, 8/15/2017)



Darlene Love's "A Fine, Fine Boy" debuted at #90 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending October 19, 1963.  It spent 6 weeks on the chart and peaked at #53.  What a crime!

Related posts:. 
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Steve Bannon instructed Trump not to antagonize the Breitbart base.  (8/15/2017)
Trump's Charlottesville do-over: But first, let's talk about the economy!  (8/15/2017)
Rest assured, Trump will call it fake news, ask for a recount.  (8/15/2017)
The gaping maw of Donald Trump.  (8/14/2017)
Another crazed GOP official cuts loose on social media.  (8/14/2017)
Before he saw the light: White nationalist as lost and lonely child.  (8/13/2017)
Washington Post aptly summarizes Mike Pompeo's gibberish defending Trump's 'many sides' statement.  (8/13/2017)
The many sides of Matthew Heimbach.  (8/13/2017)
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and KKK feel emboldened in Trump's America.  (8/12/2017

Perhaps today Mark Salter lumps Donald Trump into the lunatic fringe

Photo credit:  Twitter

Quoted in Bannon in Limbo as Trump Faces Growing Calls for the Strategist’s Ouster.  (The New York Times, 8/14/2017)

A major, major double-down kinda day.

The gaping maw of Donald Trump, our first alt-right President

Trump Defends Initial Remarks on Charlottesville; Blames ‘Both Sides’.  (The New York Times, 8/15/2017)

Text from NYT article cited above.

Meet the 10 featured male speakers at this white-nationalist event.

Poster from Political Research Associates

Text:  Wikipedia

Text:  Sourhern Povery Law Center (emphasis added)

Text:  Southern Poverty Law Center

Text:  Wikipedia, Newsweek

Text:  Southern Poverty Law Ceneter

Text:  Southern Poverty Law Center

Text:  Everipedia

Text:  Southern Poverty Law Center

Text: Heavy

Text:  Southern Poverty Law Center

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Trump's Charlottesville do-over: But first, let's talk about the economy!  (8/15/2017)
Rest assured, Trump will call it fake news, ask for a recount.  (8/15/2017)
The gaping maw of Donald Trump.  (8/14/2017)
Another crazed GOP official cuts loose on social media.  (8/14/2017)
Before he saw the light: White nationalist as lost and lonely child.  (8/13/2017)
Washington Post aptly summarizes Mike Pompeo's gibberish defending Trump's 'many sides' statement.  (8/13/2017)
The many sides of Matthew Heimbach.  (8/13/2017)
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and KKK feel emboldened in Trump's America.  (8/12/2017)

Steve Bannon instructed Trump not to antagonize the Breitbart base

Bannon in Limbo as Trump Faces Growing Calls for the Strategist’s Ouster.  (The New York Times, 8/14/2017)

For months, Mr. Trump has considered ousting Stephen K. Bannon, the White House chief strategist and relentless nationalist who ran the Breitbart website and called it a “platform for the alt-right.”

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UPDATE. Geting to know you (The Steve Bannon edition).  (11/14/2016)

Another crazed GOP official cuts loose on social media

Headline from CBS News

N.M. GOP leader blames 'leftist protesters' after Virginia attack.  (USA Today, 8/13/2017)

The response to the critixicm is to throw a few more logs on the fire.  In response to the firestorm of criticism that followed on social media, the county GOP wrote in a Facebook comment that the post wasn’t about the events in Charlottesville.

For now, you can't access any content at the Dona Ana Republican Party Facebook page.

Before he saw the light: White nationalist as lost and lonely child

A Reformed White Nationalist Speaks Out On Charlottesville.  (NPR, 8/13/2017)

Former White Nationalist Christian Picciolini says he was "lost" and "lonely" when he was recruited into a white supremacist group as a teenager but he now runs a nonprofit that advocates for peace.

"Lost and Lonely Child" appears on Savoy Brown's 6th album, Hellbound Train, which debuted on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart for the week ending 3/18/1972.  It spent 21 weeks on the chart, peaking at #34. 

Washington Post aptly summarizes Mike Pompeo's gibberish defending Trump's 'many sides' statement

Reported in White House: Trump’s condemnation includes ‘white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all extremist groups’,  (Washington Post, 8/13/2017)

He thinks!!

Read: President Trump's remarks condemning violence “on many sides” in Charlottesville.  (Vox, 8/12/2017)
The full text, where you won't find any mention of white nationalists.

The many sides of Matthew Heimbach

Meet the man in the middle of the 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville.  (USA Today, 8/12/2017)

Matthew Heimbach, an Indiana resident who has risen to prominence in the white nationalist movement, approached the epicenter of Saturday’s rally here wearing a black combat helmet and with a bodyguard close on his heels.

Above 3 from Southern Poverty Law Center

The above quoted in The Little FührerA day in the life of the newest leader of white nationalists.  (al jazeera, 7/26/2015)

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Donald Trump, Bible study, and white nationalism: 1 Timothy 5:8.  (10/12/2016)

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Dear Donald Trump, In the case of David Duke, just once -- directly, unequivocally, and right off the bat.  (3/1/2016)
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White nationalist David Duke tells radio audience, Get off your fat ass for Donald Trump.  (2/27/2016)
Donald Trump and the white nationalists.  (1/12/2016)

UPDATE. Certain Trump supporters might consider this to be a Make America Great Again platform statement

‘Ants Among Elephants,’ a Memoir About the Persistence of Caste.  (The New York Times, 7/17/2017)

13 holds on 3 copies in LINKcat.

Original 2/26/2016 post, "White nationalist David Duke tells radio audience, Get off your fat ass for Donald Trump", starts here.

Photo credit:  Dust jacket of 1998 autobiography

As quoted in

Politico, 2/25/2016

It doesn't appear as though Donald has yet thanked him for his support.

UPDATE. Donald Trump sets the table for hate and intolerance at libraries

Reported at Libraries Report Surges in Hate Crimes and Xenophobic Vandalism.  (Law Street, 12/8/2016)

Evanston Public Library
University of New Mexico
Reed College

12/6/2016 update, "Donald Trump sets the table for hate, intolerance, gullibility, and extreme stupidity", starts here.

Photo credit:  Gage Skidmore via Wikipedia

Pizzagate crackpots are damaging a number of D.C.-area small businesses.  (Death and Taxes, 12/6/2016)

11/28/2016 update, " Donald Trump sets the table for (intensified) hate and intolerance in alt-right world", starts here.

Photo credit:  Anti-Defamation League

Reported in What the alt-right actually wants from Donald Trump.  (Vox, 11/28/2016)

Related reading:

Richard Spencer:  A Symbol of the New White Supremacy.  (ADL, 5/14/2013)

Through all of these ventures, Spencer has become a leader in white supremacist circles that envision a “new” right that will openly embrace “white racial consciousness.” Although Spencer began his career [at] The American Conservative, he has since rejected conservatism. He believes that conservatives can’t or won’t represent explicitly white interests.

11/27/2016 update, "Donald Trump sets the table for hate and intolerance in Silver Spring, Maryland", starts here.

Reported at A church was defaced with ‘Trump Nation, Whites Only.’ The community had a different message.  (Washington Post, 11/23/2016)

Source:  Wikipedia

Source:  U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

Episcopal Church of Our Savior, Silver Spring


11/25/2016 update, " Donald Trump sets the table for hate and intolerance on an airplane", starts here.

Quoted in Asshole Trump supporter yells at a plane full of ‘Hillary bitches’.  (Death and Taxes, 11/25/2016)




11/25/2016 update, "Donald Trump sets the table for hate and intolerance in Plattsburgh, New York", starts here.

Photo credit:  Facebook

Reported in Harassed, afraid, a North Country immigrant fights back with love.  (North County Public Radio, 11/24/2016)

Source:  U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

Source:  Wikipedia

Hillary Clinton received a pluraity of votes in Clinton County.  (Statewide, she beat trump 58.8% to 37.5%.)

Source:  CNN

11/23/2016 update, " Donald Trump sets the table for hate and intolerance in Washington D.C. and across the U.S. (part 2)", starts here.

Photo credit:  National Policy Institute

Reported in Alt-Right Exults in Donald Trump’s Election With a Salute: ‘Heil Victory’.  (The New York Times, 11/21/2016)


2nd 11/20/2016 update, "Donald Trump sets the table for hate and intolerance in Washington D.C. and across the U.S", starts here.

Energized By Trump's Win, White Nationalists Gather To 'Change The World'.  (NPR, 11/20/2016)

Loyalists of the self-described white nationalist, alt-right movement from around the country gathered in D.C. Saturday afternoon, enthused by the election of Donald Trump and optimistic that their controversial, offensive views such as calling for a white, ethnocentric state were on the rise throughout the country.

Photo grouping:  National Policy Institute "Become Who We Are"

Additional information on these 3 white nationalist loyalist is found at the "Extremists" webpages of the Southern Poverty Law Center:

• Peter Brimelow (see also VDARE)
• Keith MacDonald (see also Occidental Observer)
• Richard Spencer (see also National Policy Institute)

First 11/20/2016 update, "Donald Trump sets the table for hate and intolerance in Iowa City", starts here.

Photo credit and source of question:  Denver Public Library

Reported in At Iowa High School, Election Results Kindle Tensions and Protests.  (The New York Times, 11/19/2016)


Second 11/18/2016 update, "Donald Trump sets the table for hate and intolerance in Oregon", starts here.

Reported in As Trump Rises, So Do Some Hands Waving Confederate Battle Flags. (The New York Times, 11/18/2016)

Silverton is located 12 miles northeast of Salem, the state capital.

Source:  Wikipedia

Source:  U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

Earlier 11/19/2016 update, "Donald Trump sets the table for hate and intolerance in Brooklyn", starts here.

Photo credit:  Death and Taxes

Swastikas, 'Go Trump!' slogan deface Adam Yauch Park playground in Brooklyn.  (New York Daily News, 11/18/2016)
Loyalists of the self-described white nationalist, alt-right movement from around the country gathered in D.C. Saturday afternoon, enthused by the election of Donald Trump and optimistic that their controversial, offensive views such as calling for a white, ethnocentric state were on the rise throughout the country.

Original 11/17/2016 post, "Donald Trump sets the table for hate and intolerance in Wisconsin", starts here.

(highlights added)

Madison area families are targets of hate mail.  (Madison.com, 11/17/2016)

The letter also directly referenced the Ketarkus family, which includes eleven adopted children from the United States, Ghana and China. Becky Ketarkus could not be reached for comment. Via her Facebook page today, Ketarkus said that she does not plan to speak to the media any further and urged people who are upset about the letter to engage with Madison’s leaders of color and LGBTQ activists.

Still waiting for Trump to disavow this type of reprehensible behavior that's been occuring with disturbing regularity since November 9.

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