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Ron Paul See other Ron Paul Articles Title: How Trump Is Inspiring A New Generation Of White Nationalists Racists see an opportunity in his candidacy. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has no shortage of fans in the white nationalist community. WASHINGTON -- The gathering on the eighth-floor rotunda of the federal government’s Ronald Reagan Building looked, at first glance, like any other Saturday-evening D.C. cocktail party. But this was no ordinary affair. The 50 or so people in the room were there for the winter conference of the National Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank based in Arlington, Virginia. On its website, NPI describes itself as a group “dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States.” In NPI's telling, white Americans are increasingly under siege in their own country, doomed to be a hated minority as people of color grow ever more numerous and politically powerful. And Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy has given the group's members more hope than ever that help is on the way. DANIEL MARANS/THE HUFFINGTON POST Richard Spencer is president of the National Policy Institute. The Fresh Young Face -- And Haircut -- Of White Nationalism A solid majority of the formally dressed men at Saturday's event were sporting a hairdo known as an “undercut,” which consists of a buzz cut on the bottom with longer hair on top, combed across to hang over one of the shaved sides of the head. It's not a style you see often on the Beltway cocktail party circuit, and as it turned out, it's a telling feature. The conference’s ubiquitous undercut hairdo was of a piece with the well-coiffed, respectable face of today’s white nationalist movement. At the same time, it pointed up the communal, almost spiritual, role that the movement plays in the lives of its adherents. Huddled together with drinks in their hands, the attendees with matching undercuts had the appearance of religious cult members standing in formation -- or maybe just an especially tight-knit college debate club from a bygone era. And like any other quasi-spiritual movement, the young, overwhelmingly male white nationalists have their very own charismatic leader in Richard Spencer, NPI’s president. Spencer was sporting the sharpest undercut in the room, a distinction that has prompted his comrades on the alt right to rename the haircut “the Richard Spencer” -- at least, according to Spencer himself. A tall and preppy graduate of the University of Virginia with a master's degree from the University of Chicago, Spencer manages to make even the most extreme white nationalist ideas sound like innocuous talking points. He is also a master of obfuscation and sophistry, evading questions about his real agenda by dismissing policy prescriptions as irrelevant (despite the name of his organization). “Talking about policy is meaningless until you have a starting point,” Spencer said. The starting point he has in mind is getting white people to openly embrace their “white” identity, and to organize as a group with common interests. Spencer and his peers maintain that creating an intellectual community of white activists is an essential step toward making America white again. “I think it is important to dream, and you can look into the past for inspiration or you can think about the future," Spencer said. “But I don’t know how history is going to unfold. All I know is, we need identity no matter what happens.” Although Spencer claimed on Saturday that his ideal scenarios are so theoretical they're hardly worth spelling out, he's been more forthcoming in the past. Spencer told Vice in 2013 that his dream was “an ethno-state that would be a gathering point for all Europeans. It would be a new society based on very different ideals than, say, the Declaration of Independence." Spencer has also expressed an openness to the idea of some kind of nonviolent ethnic cleansing. “Today, in the public imagination, ‘ethnic-cleansing’ has been associated with civil war and mass murder (understandably so)," he said at the American Renaissance conference in April 2013, according to Salon. "But this need not be the case. 1919 is a real example of successful ethnic redistribution -- done by fiat, we should remember, but done peacefully." Other interim policies that Spencer and many NPI members support resemble standard conservative positions, albeit with race more explicitly in the foreground. They want to deport all undocumented immigrants, for example, and eliminate affirmative action in university admission and hiring for black and Latino people. They also advocate a non-interventionist foreign policy, something they believe Trump supports as well. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 2.
#1. To: Ada (#0)
And Hillary! is chock full of Negro Lives Matter.
Some people need to take a six month trip to South Africa.
#6. To: Cynicom (#2)
When I lived in Illinois, I was in Country Music Inn up north of Chicago. There were these guys there who were visiting from South Africa. We were using my body as a map of the U.S. Left side was east coast and right was west coast. In the middle was the mid-east. One of them pointed below my belt and said, "What's down there?" I said, "That's Mexico. We don't go there." ROTFLOL!
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