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Title: Clinton address Thursday will hammer Trump for connections to racist 'alt-right' movement
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Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... racist-alt-right-movement.html
Published: Aug 24, 2016
Author: Nikki Schwab, U.s. Political Reporter Fo
Post Date: 2016-08-24 14:50:54 by cranky
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Hillary Clinton has spent her week fundraising, but will return to the stump tomorrow to hit Donald Trump for his connections to the 'alt-right,' a sinister-sounding political movement that pushes back against multiculturalism and immigration. Clinton will appear at the Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada – a swing state – and 'contrast Donald Trump's divisive views and dangerous temperament with her vision of an America that is stronger together and where everyone has a role to play in the future,' her campaign said. While Trump's campaign reorganization last week may have put the GOP nominee on more solid footing, it opened him up to this type of criticism because Breitbart News Network, where new Trump campaign CEO Stephen Bannon was borrowed from, has been linked to this strain of conservatism. Scroll down for video Hillary Clinton will head to Reno, Nevada tomorrow to give a speech connecting Donald Trump and his advisers to the 'alt-right' an anti-immigrant, pro-white strain of conservatism 'Alt-right' leaders have cheered the rise of Republican Donald Trump, who kicked off his campaign speaking negatively about illegal immigrants coming in from Mexico Clinton's campaign manger went off about Bannon last week on a call with reporters. 'Donald Trump has decided to double down on his most small, nasty, and divisive instincts by turning his campaign over to someone who is best known for running a so-called news site that peddles divisive, at times, racist, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic, conspiracy theories,” Mook said. Hillary Clinton is able to make the argument more aptly because of Trump's hiring of Breitbart's Stephen Bannon (pictured). Breitbart is credited with taking the 'alt-right' movement more mainstream The Clinton campaign has pointed to an assessment made by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups within the United States, connecting the Bannon-led Breitbart to the 'alt-right.' An April 2016 piece on SPLC's website is headlined, 'Is Breitbart.com becoming the media arm of the "alt-right?"' and charts Breitbart's move from a conservative news site to one more willing to embrace white nationalists like Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor who Breitbart says 'have been accused of racism' without detailing the duo's overt racism. Breitbart writers Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannopoulos instead referred to Spencer and Taylor as 'intellectuals.' Bannon was in charge of Breitbart when this piece came out. The 'alt-right' moniker, the Washington Post explained, was birthed from a speech given by Paul Gottfried, a conservative writer, who argued that an 'alternative right' should spring up and combat the 'neoconservative-controlled conservative establishment,' which held the reins of the Republican Party during President George W. Bush's tenure. Donald Trump's candidacy has helped the 'alt-right' movement gain mainstream attention with leader Richard Spencer tweeting, 'we've made it,' upon hearing of Hillary Clinton's speech Gottfried was responding to the Republicans' big loss in 2008 to now-President Barack Obama. Soon though, Spencer, referred to as an 'identitarian' grabbed the name, founding an Alternative Right website in 2010, which found its audience in those against mass immigration and multiculturalism. The other person who the Southern Poverty Law Center referred to, Taylor, edits the white nationalist magazine American Renaissance from his Fairfax County, Virginia home. Both have been enthusiastic about Trump's run for the White House. Meanwhile his candidacy has helped move their movement into the mainstream of Republican politics. On day No. 1 of Trump's campaign, his calling for a border fence, and calling Mexican immigrants 'rapists,' was the political music they were interested in hearing. And Trump's triumph over pro-immigration reform Republicans, like Sen. Marco Rubio – who once was part of the Senate's Gang of Eight before stepping away from the reform package –was further proof that the ideology was gaining ground, they believed. Taylor has argued that Trump should 'concentrate on his natural constituency, which is white people.' He argued that by winning 65 percent of the white vote, Trump would override the Democrats' dominance with minority communities. Upon hearing that Clinton planned to brand Trump as being a member of the 'alt-right' movement, Spencer simply tweeted: 'We've made it.' But always the curve-call candidate, with alleged 'alt-right' enthusiast Bannon on board, Trump has indeed changed his campaign message. Trump's spent Bannon's first week on the campaign softening his message on immigration and making overtures to black and Hispanic voters. 
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