Trump, Clinton: Both in the alt-wrong
Donald Trump has dedicated a significant portion of his campaign to discussing immigration, despite the fact that only about 8 percent of Americans rank it as the most important problem facing this country. However, hidden within the immigration front is an ulterior agenda that Hillary Clinton was recently so kind as to point out.
Trump’s agenda is appealing to the Alternative Right or alt-right, which, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, is a set of far-right ideologies, groups and individuals whose core belief is that white identity is under attack by multicultural forces using political correctness and social justice to undermine white people and their civilization.
Although Trump has never come out to publicly declare that he supports, or is even affiliated with, the alt-right, he has given them a platform. A group that was previously hidden in secluded corners of the Internet has now gained national attention.
While Hillary Clinton did her best to wash her hands of anything to do with the alt-right she simultaneously gave her best shot at tying Trump to the community of activists. In doing so, she has done just as much, or more, damage than Trump.
On Thursday, Aug. 25, Clinton gave a speech in Reno, Nevada, that condemned Trump for building his campaign on “prejudice and paranoia,” and for “taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party.” She went on to say that Trump has let the alt-right effectively take over the Republican Party by hiring on Stephen Bannon, the head of a right-wing website called breitbart.com, as campaign CEO.
There is no doubt that there were better options for the Trump Campaign CEO than Bannon, but the Trump campaign has simply become a natural landing place for the alt-right. Trump has made his campaign a comfortable place for these activists to hide by suggesting and supporting anti-immigration policies, proposing a Muslim ban, and generating authoritarian rhetoric, among other things.
Where Clinton went wrong was when she acknowledged the alt-right. When members of the alt-right heard that the Democratic presidential nominee had mentioned their group, it gave them validation that they are credible and have real power. Not only that, but it gave them a valuable opportunity to fundraise and recruit.
Some members of the alt-right took to Twitter to express their feelings about the publicity they received from Clinton. One of which was @bunkerwsmith who tweeted “Did you ever imagine that in August of the Current Year we’d be tweeting about #HillarysAltRightSpeech? How far we’ve come!”
It is easy to slap all of the blame for the rise of the alt-right on Trump for creating a haven for the group. But when both candidates are validating such evil and giving activists the public attention they thrive on, then both have blood on their hands.
Always interesting to hear the Southern Poverty Law Center commenting on “white identity” when the company is currently celebrating its 46th year with no minorities at the top. With 300 employees and more than $300 million dollars in cash on hand, the Executive Suite of the SPLC is as lily-white today as when the company opened for business in 1971.
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Even the “Teaching Tolerance” wing of the company, which purports to promote diversity in the K-12 classroom, has been led by “whites only” since its inception in 1991.
Talk about “white identity.”
While Hillary is a right wing Wall Street extremist shitting Republican just like Donald is, I don’t think you can equate their hatred of blacks, women, Mexicans, atheists, gays, and everything our country stands for, Hillary and Donald share their right wing treasonous shitting Republicanism against our country, but they’re not the same when it comes to abject hatred of our country which Donald truly shines at.