Inside A White Nationalist Conference Energized By Trump's Rise

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https://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/inside-a-white-nationalist-conference-energized-by-trumps-ri?utm_term=.lh07YKzKYn#.jmaARgZgRp

This year, white nationalists can barely contain their excitement over the presumptive Republican nominee, and the AmRen conference reflected the moment. “Even if Trump loses, he’s already shown that immigration and economic nationalism and the whole concept of ‘America first’ works electorally,” Peter Brimelow, the founder of Vdare.com, said in his speech to the conference. “There are some elections where losing candidates blaze a trail for the future.” Brimelow asked how many in the audience had been to a Trump rally; about a quarter raised their hands, mostly young people.

Taylor and others like him represent at this point the old guard of the more think-tanky side of white nationalism. Their movement has started to meld with the younger generation of white nationalists, who by and large consider themselves these days to be alt-right, a mostly online movement I wrote about in December. The alt-right, with its roots in internet ideologies like the Dark Enlightenment combined with good old-fashioned white nationalism, had taken off. “2015 has been huge,” Richard Spencer, the National Policy Institute chair and another luminary in the quasi-intellectual wing of the white nationalist movement, told me at the time.

Months later, their preferred candidate has locked up the Republican nomination without backing down (yet) on the hard-right immigration stances that attracted them to him in the first place, and their feeling of vindication is stronger than ever.

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1. Mix in religion, and this country is headed down the road of other countries with racism mixed

with religion and political zealots.

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2. Good thing racists are usually dumbasses.

“Even if Trump loses, he’s already shown that immigration and economic nationalism and the whole concept of ‘America first’ works electorally,”

What a doorknob! Nope, if he loses, it shows it doesn't work. It may have worked this year to rile up the insane Republican base, but I hope to Koresh we have reached the point where it will always be a losing strategy nationally.

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3. Fear of others is at the base of everything right wing mentalities do.

The real question is, how many Americans who vote are in the camp of fear and ignorance.

We will see I suppose. Sure would be OK with me if we could get past this and never have to deal with it again.

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4. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t