God Save America from Donny T.....What it means when people say that Donald Trump has ties to the white supremacist ”alt-right.”

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What it means when people say that Donald Trump has ties to the white supremacist ”alt-right.”

“Racist ideas, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant ideas—all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the alt-right.”

Last week, Hillary Clinton called out Donald Trump and his advisers for embracing a hate movement—the so-called “alt-right” political ideology. The phrase has been tossed around a lot lately, and as advocates for the movement have lavished in the increased attention, it’s important to clear a few things up.

First: What does alt-right mean?

The alternative right, commonly known as the alt-right, is defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center (an organization that tracks hate groups), as a “set of far-right ideologies at the core of which is a belief that ‘white identity’ is under attack by multicultural forces using ‘political correctness’ and ‘social justice’ to undermine white people and ‘their’ civilization.”

In other words: This is not conservatism or the Republican Party. This is a movement that fosters anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-multiculturalism, and anti-women rhetoric. This is a white supremacist movement, and one that Trump has not only refused to denounce—it’s one he actively courts.

What connections does Trump have to the alt-right and white supremacy groups?

Trump recently hired Steve Bannon, the former head of an extremist right-wing website called Breitbart, as his campaign CEO. Bannon likes to brag that Breitbart is the “platform for the alt-right.” And as the Southern Poverty Law Center puts it, those ideas are “racist ideas, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant ideas—all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the alt-right.”

Here are some other facts you should know:

• New York magazine examined a single week of Trump’s Twitter account and found that 62 percent of the accounts he retweeted had white supremacist connections.
• When Trump retweeted two white supremacists on Twitter within a minute, the editor of awhite supremacist website called Daily Stormer said, “Whereas the odd White genocide tweet could be a random occurrence, it isn’t statistically possible that two of them back to back could be a random occurrence. It could only be deliberate. … Today in America the air is cold and it tastes like victory.”
• Trump once refused to disavow the support of David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. And when asked if he would support Duke’s run for Senate, he said would have to see who the Democrat was.
• The chairman of the American Nazi Party said a Trump presidency will present “a real opportunity” for Nazi beliefs.

What do alt-right Trump supporters sound like?

They sound a lot like Trump.

He’s continually shown that he shares their core beliefs, and he continues to normalize and elevate their views. Just take a look for yourself.

When he entered the crowded Republican field, Trump captured headlines by saying Mexican immigrants were rapists and criminals.

"The ‘freedom’ for other races to move freely into white nations is nonexistent. Stay in your own nations, we don’t want you here."

Matthew Heimbach, “I Hate Freedom,” Traditionalist Youth Network, July 7, 2013

As Trump got closer to securing the Republican nomination, he ramped up his nationalist rhetoric, touting a slogan used by an anti-semitic organization.

"I oppose the Jewish diaspora in the United States and other white societies. I would like to see the white peoples of the world break the power of the Jewish diaspora and send the Jews to Israel, where they will have to learn how to be a normal nation."

Greg Johnson, a notorious white nationalist, August 2011

Extremist supporters of this hate movement have happily found a candidate in Trump.

We’ve got to vote for Trump. We have no choice by that. ... Every movement in the history of the world has to have a growing stage. It has to have a develop stage. Donald Trump is essential for that.

David Duke, former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, August 2016

Trump’s rhetoric—mirrored by the alt-right—has lead to violence, racism, and intolerance around the country.

"On August 20, 2015, in Boston, Massachusetts, two Trump supporters physically attacked a homeless Latino man. One of the attackers informed police that he was motivated by Trump’s immigration message that Mexicans were criminals and rapists."

When Islamophobia Turns Violent, Georgetown University, April 2015

"Several weeks ago, in Washington, D.C., a Muslim woman was called ‘a worthless piece of Muslim trash’ and a ‘terrorist’ by a fellow Starbucks customer. … After pouring something on the Muslim woman, the assaulter told her victim that she was planning on voting for Donald Trump, who would send Muslims ‘back to where you come from.’"

Slate, May 2016

"‘My students are terrified of Donald Trump,’ says one teacher from a middle school with a large population of African American Muslims. ‘They think that if he’s elected, all black people will get sent back to Africa.’"

Southern Poverty Law Center, April 2016

Are these the type of people you want hanging around the White House?

Don’t take this lightly—this is a hate movement, and nothing more than a rebranding of white supremacy and racism.

“There are more white supremacists who are defining themselves as part of the alt-right,” says Marilyn Mayo, director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. And these are the people who are Trump’s supporters and the closest friends of his inner circle.