In case you haven’t been around a TV, radio, or the internet during the past few days, Republican nominee Donald Trump just perpetrated a huge shake-up in his campaign staff. Out is controversial Paul Manafort, and in are the big wigs behind conservative news website Breitbart.
And for a certain segment of Trump’s supporters, that suits them just fine.
This is Jared Taylor, editor of the white nationalist magazine “American Renaissance” and one of the foremost racialists in the country. Racialism is the theory that race determines human traits and capacities.
In reality, it is used by bigots to divide the races into separate, distinct categories and place them in a superiority hierarchy.
Guess which race Mr. Taylor would place at the top.
When Steve Bannon of Breitbart took over Trump’s campaign, people like Taylor were overjoyed. He said:
“[Trump should] concentrate on his natural constituency, which is white people.”
And for racialists like Taylor, and the movement now being called the “alt-right,” or the alternative right, they see the Breitbart takeover as in line with their ideals. The site is known for writing stories about Black crime, calling Syrian refugees potential terrorists, and saying activists from Black Lives Matter and its movement celebrate cop killers.
Former Breibart public relations official Kurt Bardella said that:
“It was stuff like ‘these people don’t belong here, they’re overrunning our country … That kind of white nationalist sentiment.”
Trump has been linked to a few white nationalists during the past year, and has notably refused to outright condemn them. This falls much more in the Breitbart philosophy than the traditional GOP philosophy, and Taylor and other alt-right proponents see this as a bold step in the right direction.
“Imagine a media that was more Breitbart than New York Times.”
What a scary world that would be.
Watch an interview with Taylor by Alan Colmes here:
Feature Image Via Youtube Video Screengrab.
