President-elect Donald Trump has sparked a popular and scary movement for the last year-and-a-half. They call themselves the “alt-right,” but they are really white supremacists.
Some of these activists who gave Trump Nazi salutes and shouted, “Hail Trump,” at rallies have said that they will “revolt” if Trump abandons white supremacy and his white supremacist supporters.
They were emboldened by Trump’s promises of building a wall at the Mexican-American border and deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants. They also love his idea of setting up a registry for Muslims in the country.
Their racist ideals were exposed when some photos from a meeting were leaked back in November.
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David Cole, a self-proclaimed Holocaust revisionist and Taki magazine columnist, said:
“In January Trump will start governing and will have to make compromises. Even small ones will trigger squabbles between the ‘alt-right.’ ‘Trump betrayed us.’ ‘No, you’re betraying us for saying Trump betrayed us.’ And so on. The alt-right’s appearance of influence will diminish more and more as they start to fight amongst themselves.”
These white supremacists are not just your average extreme Republican group — they openly practice white nationalism. They’re too extreme for traditional conservatives. They read Breitbart and other conspiracy theory websites.
As if this wasn’t infuriating enough, some of these white nationalists enjoy tax-exempt status. This is just sick. Four white nationalist groups have registered as charities and raised a combined $7.8 million. They hope that the President-elect’s victory will help them raise more money.
They present themselves as “educational” organizations. Samuel Brunson, a tax law professor at Loyola University in Chicago, said:
“It should make people uncomfortable that the government is subsidizing groups that espouse values that are incompatible with most Americans.”
Hopefully, Trump will actually abandon this group because we don’t need any more racism.
And yes, it makes me uncomfortable.
Featured image via Twitter.
