Here are the stats:
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-morris/fbi-us-jews-targeted-57-anti-religious-hate-crimes-muslims-targeted-16Muslims have been banned so it wasn't them. Where and how did that sudden increase come from? "Could it be...Satan?" Take another guess.
Lets' be very clear about what Trump said on Charlottesville: “You had many people in that group OTHER than neo-Nazis and white nationalists,” Trump said. “The press has treated them absolutely unfairly.” I agree. He did not say that Neo-Nazis and White Nationalists were "very fine people." There were people, he was saying, that were not part of the Far Right racist groups protesting for other reasons. HIS COMMENT WAS GROSSLY MISCONSTRUED by the Press. That said, there is more.
Here is the question: Why do so many far right White Nationalists and other racist groups not just support Trump but see him as something of the leader for their cause?
Trump's recent announcement that he was a Nationalist makes such support understandable today. Do you really think that these yahoo far right fanatics see any difference between Nationalist and White Nationalist? Nationalist is a surname; Trump declared he was family. Yet that does not explain early support. Which was already rabid by 2016.
In Oct. 2016, when it looked as if Trump would be trounced at the ballot box, a pair of Trump supporters decided to preempt any election-related bloodshed. The two men, Patrick Stein and Curtis Allen, joined a third, Gavin Wright, in attempting to unleash a series of bombings against a local population of Somali immigrants. The plot, if successful, could have ended as the deadliest terror attack in the U.S. since 9/11. What did they see in Trump?
Why does Trump get this allegiance, such as from David Duke, who he was very reluctant to renounce.
Then this: According to an investigation by Mother Jones and the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, since Trump officially announced his bid in June 2015 he has drawn effusive praise and formal backing from some of the country’s most virulent neo-Nazis, white supremacists, militia supporters, and other extremist leaders. They include the head of the American Nazi Party, three former Ku Klux Klansmen, four people involved in a recent armed standoff against federal authorities at an Oregon wildlife refuge, and at least 15 individuals affiliated with organizations described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups.
Trump has disavowed none of them.
“We have a wonderful OPPORTUNITY here folks, that may never come again,” wrote Rocky J. Suhayda, the head of the American Nazi Party, last fall. “Donald Trump’s campaign statements, if nothing else, have SHOWN that ‘our views’ are NOT so ‘unpopular’ as the Political Correctness crowd have told everyone they are!”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/trump-supporters-neo-nazis-white-nationalists-kkk-militias-racism-hate/What is it about Trump?
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