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Hillary Clinton's alt-right warnings prove apt
Hillary Clinton's alt-right warnings prove apt
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/hillary-clinton-alt-right-warnings-prove-apt-article-1.3342637
Brian Fallon
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, July 21, 2017, 5:00 AM
........................................Clinton also sounded an alarm about a threat whose origins were wholly domestic: right-wing, nationalist groups that were emboldened by Trumps rise. In August, she devoted an entire speech to outlining how Trumps campaign was luring this so-called alt-right movement out from the darkened corners of the internet.
At the time, alt-right was not a household term, and Clintons attention to this fringe elicited head-scratching from some. But six months into Trump's presidency, the groups comprising this movement are becoming dangerously mainstream.
The latest worrisome incident occurred just this weekend. For years, a remote Muslim settlement in the Catskills, known as Islamberg, has been the subject of unfounded rumors fanned by the right wing that the village of a few dozen families is a terrorist training camp. State and local police have openly refuted these allegations and asserted that the village, founded in 1980 by African-American Muslims seeking to escape crime and crowding in New York City, is peaceful and cooperative with authorities.
But right-wing activists, clad in militia-style uniforms, descended on the town Saturday anyway and staged a rally intimidating the Muslim community there.
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The rise of these groups is one of the more insidious trends in Donald Trumps America. Clintons early warning about these groups was treated as just another political swipe at Trump last summer, but it deserves heed now............................
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Hillary Clinton's alt-right warnings prove apt (Original Post)
riversedge
Aug 2017
OP
dalton99a
(81,433 posts)1. Kick.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)2. Alt-right.. Neo-Nazi's by any other name...nt
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)3. um... Hillary was right on damn near everything
not that this was difficult for her to do, since she's you know, actually sane and capable of rational thought...
There is some sick irony that Trump has been even worse than the total embodiment of the nightmare every Republican and leftbro swore Hillary would be if she won... But hey, those people were happy to have their trainwreck reality TV twitter-fueled presidency as long as it kept Hillary out, so they can chew on it...