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White nationalist Richard Spencer learned that Hillary Clinton was planning to give a speech about Donald Trump’s ties to the so-called alt right, and he was thrilled. “It’s hugely significant when a presidential candidate, and indeed the presidential candidate who is leading in most polls, talks about your movement directly, I think you can safely say that you’ve made it.”
Spencer loves publicity. He hung around last month’s Republican National Convention with a sign saying, “Wanna Talk to a ‘Racist’?”
He is president and director of the National Policy Institute, described on its website as “dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world.”
Trump retweets white supremacists and echoes alt-right rhetoric. Trump shares the alt right’s respect for Vladimir Putin, admired by many in the alt right as the leader of what Spencer calls “a powerful white empire.”
Trump hired Steve Bannon, chairman of Breitbart News, to be his campaign’s CEO. Bannon has run Breitbart since 2012, turning the site in an explicitly ethno-nationalist direction. “We’re the platform for the alt-right,” Bannon says.
Spencer is dead serious about his ideas. “European identity politics is really an inevitability,” he said. “It’s going to happen in North America as whites become a minority in this country. And the only question really is how it is going to happen. I never would have predicted that it would happen through Donald Trump".
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/08/why_hillary_clinton_is_talking_about_donald_trump_and_the_alt_right.html
