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Energized white supremacists cheer Trump convention message
Hat tip, ARLnow.com: Morning Notes, July 25, 2016
by ARLnow.com — July 25, 2016 at 9:00 am
Local White Supremacist Quoted — The Associated Press yesterday quoted Richard Spencer, a 38-year-old white supremacist who reportedly lives in Arlington and believes that African-Americans, Hispanics and Jews should be removed from the United States. Spencer, an alt-right figure, attended the Republican National Convention in support of Donald Trump. {Associated Press}
Local White Supremacist Quoted — The Associated Press yesterday quoted Richard Spencer, a 38-year-old white supremacist who reportedly lives in Arlington and believes that African-Americans, Hispanics and Jews should be removed from the United States. Spencer, an alt-right figure, attended the Republican National Convention in support of Donald Trump. {Associated Press}
Energized white supremacists cheer Trump convention message
By STEVE PEOPLES
Jul. 24, 2016 12:37 AM EDT
CLEVELAND (AP) — They don't like to be called white supremacists. ... The well-dressed men who gathered in Cleveland's Ritz-Carlton bar after Donald Trump's speech accepting the Republican nomination for president prefer the term "Europeanists," ''alt-right," or even "white nationalists." They are also die-hard Trump supporters.
And far from hiding in chat rooms or under white sheets, they cheered the GOP presidential nominee from inside the Republican National Convention over the last week. While not official delegates, they nevertheless obtained credentials to attend the party's highest-profile quadrennial gathering.
Several gathered in the luxury hotel well after midnight following Trump's Thursday address, a fiery appeal they said helped push the Republican Party closer to their principles. ... "I don't think people have fully recognized the degree to which he's transformed the party," said Richard Spencer, a clean-cut 38-year-old from Arlington, Virginia, who sipped Manhattans as he matter-of-factly called for removing African-Americans, Hispanics and Jews from the United States.
Like most in his group, Spencer said this year's convention was his first. On his social media accounts, he posted pictures of himself wearing a red Trump "Make America Great Again" hat at Quicken Loans Arena. And he says he hopes to attend future GOP conventions. ... "Tons of people in the alt-right are here," he said, putting their numbers at the RNC this week in the dozens. "We feel an investment in the Trump campaign."
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By STEVE PEOPLES
Jul. 24, 2016 12:37 AM EDT
CLEVELAND (AP) — They don't like to be called white supremacists. ... The well-dressed men who gathered in Cleveland's Ritz-Carlton bar after Donald Trump's speech accepting the Republican nomination for president prefer the term "Europeanists," ''alt-right," or even "white nationalists." They are also die-hard Trump supporters.
And far from hiding in chat rooms or under white sheets, they cheered the GOP presidential nominee from inside the Republican National Convention over the last week. While not official delegates, they nevertheless obtained credentials to attend the party's highest-profile quadrennial gathering.
Several gathered in the luxury hotel well after midnight following Trump's Thursday address, a fiery appeal they said helped push the Republican Party closer to their principles. ... "I don't think people have fully recognized the degree to which he's transformed the party," said Richard Spencer, a clean-cut 38-year-old from Arlington, Virginia, who sipped Manhattans as he matter-of-factly called for removing African-Americans, Hispanics and Jews from the United States.
Like most in his group, Spencer said this year's convention was his first. On his social media accounts, he posted pictures of himself wearing a red Trump "Make America Great Again" hat at Quicken Loans Arena. And he says he hopes to attend future GOP conventions. ... "Tons of people in the alt-right are here," he said, putting their numbers at the RNC this week in the dozens. "We feel an investment in the Trump campaign."
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Follow Steve Peoples on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/sppeoples
Richard B. Spencer, President and Director, The National Policy Institute
Previously at DU:
Ultra-Nationalist Group National Policy Institute Based in Arlington
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July 20 2016 1:35 PM
Better Know an RNC White Supremacist: Richard Spencer
By Michelle Goldberg
Richard Spencer.
photo by Michelle Goldberg
Your occasional guide to the neo-fascists and white supremacists who have come to Cleveland to celebrate the ascension of Donald Trump.
CLEVELAND—On Tuesday afternoon, the 38-year-old white nationalist Richard Spencer stood in Cleveland’s Public Square with a hand-lettered sign saying, “Wanna Talk to a ‘Racist’?” He wanted to demystify white separatism. “Because the society we live in, if you espouse our views you’re usually shouted down, so I think a lot of people want to remain anonymous,” he told me. “I’m one of the few people who will be open about stuff.”
Spencer, who divides his time between Virginia and Montana, is the president of the National Policy Institute, which bills itself as “an independent organization dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world.” The founder of the website AlternativeRight.com, he’s an important figure in the so-called alt-right movement. As he told one of his incredulous interlocutors in the Public Square, he believes that race “is the foundation of culture, society, politics, and identity.” He dreams of a white ethno-state, which will allow white people “to unlock our potential. And that is the exploration of the universe. That is the unlocking of our Faustian will.”
Spencer is excited by the way Trump is transforming the GOP into a party that’s explicitly about white identity politics. “Trump seems to be emotionally connected to us,” he told me. “Not really intellectually connected to us, but emotionally connected to millions of white people who think like I do. He’s brought this existential quality to politics. He’s asked questions of, Are we a nation? If we’re a nation, we have borders. Conservatives are usually wimps who want to talk about ‘laws’ and ‘the Constitution’ and blah blah blah. He’s talked about the real dope.”
July 20 2016 1:35 PM
Better Know an RNC White Supremacist: Richard Spencer
By Michelle Goldberg
Richard Spencer.
photo by Michelle Goldberg
Your occasional guide to the neo-fascists and white supremacists who have come to Cleveland to celebrate the ascension of Donald Trump.
CLEVELAND—On Tuesday afternoon, the 38-year-old white nationalist Richard Spencer stood in Cleveland’s Public Square with a hand-lettered sign saying, “Wanna Talk to a ‘Racist’?” He wanted to demystify white separatism. “Because the society we live in, if you espouse our views you’re usually shouted down, so I think a lot of people want to remain anonymous,” he told me. “I’m one of the few people who will be open about stuff.”
Spencer, who divides his time between Virginia and Montana, is the president of the National Policy Institute, which bills itself as “an independent organization dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world.” The founder of the website AlternativeRight.com, he’s an important figure in the so-called alt-right movement. As he told one of his incredulous interlocutors in the Public Square, he believes that race “is the foundation of culture, society, politics, and identity.” He dreams of a white ethno-state, which will allow white people “to unlock our potential. And that is the exploration of the universe. That is the unlocking of our Faustian will.”
Spencer is excited by the way Trump is transforming the GOP into a party that’s explicitly about white identity politics. “Trump seems to be emotionally connected to us,” he told me. “Not really intellectually connected to us, but emotionally connected to millions of white people who think like I do. He’s brought this existential quality to politics. He’s asked questions of, Are we a nation? If we’re a nation, we have borders. Conservatives are usually wimps who want to talk about ‘laws’ and ‘the Constitution’ and blah blah blah. He’s talked about the real dope.”
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