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muriel_volestrangler

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Fri May 27, 2016, 06:22 AM May 2016

Great White Hope: Trump Unites Generations Of White Nationalists

Tucked away in the woods of middle Tennessee’s Montgomery Bell State Park, 300 “white advocates” gathered over the weekend at the fourteenth American Renaissance conference to reflect on just how much fuel Trump has added to their movement this election cycle.

"I've never felt this sense of energy in our movement," the conference host, Jared Taylor, said in his opening remarks. "I've never been more optimistic."

For the conference, American Renaissance, a white nationalist publication, brought advocates for a white ethno-state together with Holocaust deniers, eugenicists and confederate sympathizers. American Renaissance and many of the groups the conference speakers are associated with are designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

According to Taylor, this year's conference saw a 100-person jump in attendance from 2015; a show of hands identified half of the participants as first-time attendees and one-third as under the age of 30.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/trump-american-renaissance-2016-conference?utm_content=bufferce941&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

This is Trump's base. He's designed his campaign to allow the racists to come out into the open. He thinks he can make bigotry 'respectable' again.
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Great White Hope: Trump Unites Generations Of White Nationalists (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler May 2016 OP
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