Trump Denounces White Supremacists, Defends Bannon

“A life where they have privilege in virtually every domain”.

For Jew-hating racists, the attention means they can playact as a viable and popular movement with pull in Washington.

The president-elect again disavowed alt-right groups that support him, saying he does not want the support of fringe neo-Nazi, white supremacists.

“If I thought he was a racist, or alt-right, “. So far, his other picks are his chief of staff, Washington insider Reince Priebus, chair of the Republican National Committee, and his pick to lead the Justice Department is Sen.

It would be much too simplistic to credit or blame the rise of Trump or the rejuvenation of the far right on racial issues alone. “He brought us from a movement that was very interesting but ultimately marginal – ultimately disconnected from reality, you could even say”.

Trump recently disavowed the alt-right after a disturbing video of its founder, National Policy Institute president Richard Spencer, used Nazi symbolism and rhetoric to praise the incoming administration. Trump, starting as early as his campaign announcement speech-when he denounced undocumented Mexican immigrants as “criminals” and “rapists”-consistently struck more racially divisive notes than any presidential candidate since George Wallace”. Trump said he was keeping “an open mind” about climate change, had turned against the idea of torturing terror suspects and no longer wished to pursue the criminal prosecution of Hillary Clinton as he had promised to do in their second debate. In this country, you could pull together 300 people for a meeting about anything, actually.

He prefers to be called an “economic nationalist”, a term with which many Bumiputra aficionados would no doubt sympathise!

“The racist, fascist extreme right is represented footsteps from the Oval Office”, said John Weaver, a Republican strategist who ran the presidential campaign of Gov. John R. Kasich of OH and previously advised Senator John McCain of Arizona. Spencer who had his account suspended called it “corporate Stalinism and a great purge of people expressing their views”.

“I don’t want to hurt the Clintons, I really don’t”, he said. “Donald Trump gives this a legitimacy now that allows them both to speak out and to organize in ways that we hadn’t seen before”.

Why do media obsessively cover the alt-right? Eric Trump at one point said former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke should get “a bullet”.

Like Trump, Bannon has criticized establishment politicians and the GOP. Nor does it absolve Republicans who look the other way when genuine bigotry appears.

“The alt-right is the media that has perspective that is right of center that is so conservative”, said Guillermo. “It’s not that they’re ‘weak.’ To the contrary, their vindictiveness knows no bounds”. In office, he’ll also confront the contradiction that while he talks tough against elites, his agenda apart from trade offers them huge corporate and personal tax cuts, and a rollback of federal environmental and consumer-protection regulations. Another reading is that coverage is driven with the cynical objective of exaggerating the importance of neo-Nazis to tie them to Republicans. Now is the time for praying for one another, with one another – for our leaders, for those, perhaps, we aren’t particularly fond of politically or otherwise.

Bannon, the former chairman of Breitbart, a right-wing news outlet, presided over the website as it published such headlines as “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy“, “Hoist It High and Proud: A Confederate Flag Proclaims a Glorious Heritage” and “Would You Rather Your Child Have Feminism or Cancer?“.

I’m afraid it’s not that simple.