The leader of the American Nazi Party is calling the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency “a real opportunity” for white supremacists.
I’ll repeat that for you: the leader of the American Nazi Party is calling a Trump presidency “a real opportunity.”
If you somehow needed another reason to fear a right-wing victory in November, here it is. If a Nazi is supporting Trump, you have to believe that something is not right with his campaign.
The chairman of the party, Rocky Suhayda, said on his radio show:
“Now, if Trump does win, okay, it’s going to be a real opportunity for people like white nationalists, acting intelligently to build upon that, and to go and start — you know how you have the black political caucus and what-not in Congress, and, everything, to start building on something like that …It doesn’t have to be anti-, like the movement’s been for decades, so much as it has to be pro-white.”
The show originally aired back in July, but BuzzFeed reporter Andrew Kaczynski released the audio from the broadcast on Saturday:
https://soundcloud.com/buzzfeedandrew/nazi-guy
Dangerous Support
Of course Suhayda is not the only white supremacist leader to pledge allegiance to Trump. A Virginia KKK leader referred to as the “imperial wizard for the Rebel Brigade of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan” joined in earlier this year, saying:
“The reason a lot of Klan members like Donald Trump is because a lot of what he believes, we believe in.”
Known white nationalist and former KKK member David Duke also supports Trump:
“Voting for these people, voting against Donald Trump at this point is really treason to your heritage.”
A Trump win would be an opportunity for white supremacists. That’s something both Nazis and sane people can agree on. Trump’s anti-Semitic comments further prove that point. This is despite the fact that his own beloved daughter Ivanka is Jewish.
More Than Words
Sometimes actions speak louder than words. For instance, that time his team quickly deleted an anti-Semitic tweet featuring $100 bills and the Star of David.
Then there was that time Trump appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” in February and refused to disavow white supremacy groups (see video below).
And to top it off: his pledges that resemble the “Heil Hitler” salute of Nazi Germany a little too closely.
“Sometimes we’ll do it for fun, and they’ll start screaming at me, ‘Do the swear in, do the swear in.’ Almost everybody in the room raises their hand.”
Pay close attention to the first part of that quote. “Sometimes we’ll do it for fun.” Because making America great again definitely includes resurrecting the pastime that always made us giggle: saluting Hitler.
At this point, if any of this doesn’t scare you, I don’t know what possibly could.
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