ajax18 wrote:We have tons of reason. He kicked off his 2016 campaign with a racist speech.
Do you really think Trump is a white supremacist? I don't even think Trump is a white nationalist. But are you even able to distinguish white supremacist from white nationalist?
White nationalist is a term white supremacists adopted as more appealing much in the same way that creationists became intelligent design proponents. The internal distinction is that white nationalists are segregationists who support a "white" ethnostate whereas white supremacists want "white" dominance. Within this distinction, white nationalism becomes a type of white supremacy. Only, that's a BS distinction as white nationalists are people who were and are called white supremacists using the exact same suite of arguments from the same cultural heritage. It's a distinction largely developed for public relations purposes.
Yes, Donald Trump seems to believe that white people should be (or naturally are) privileged within society and his policy orientation is directed specifically at preserving that aim. His views on immigration are rather blatantly colored by a desire to reduce immigration from non-white populations which he has expressed in barely coded terms on multiple occasions, probably most infamously in his "shithole countries" comments. He frequently imbibes on white supremacist rhetoric and is inordinately defensive of white supremacist groups. He's probably a 1970's Queens style racist who has been influenced by the alt-right crowd he choose to surround himself with. But that's really hard to know for sure because his brain is mush at this point. White supremacists generally love Donald Trump and they aren't mistaken in doing so once you get over the fact that their worldview is a sham that ultimately harms even them.