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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Friday, Donald Trump dismissed the idea that white supremacists constitute a rising threat. asked about the issue, Trump’s response was simple enough. “I don’t really. I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But then, someone who has repeatedly claimed that “<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/15/1842367/--It-s-like-White-ISIS-white-nationalism-is-the-greatest-threat-to-democracy?" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(153, 107, 61) !important;">Islam hates us</a>,” that Mexicans are “rapists,” and that immigrants attempting to enter the United States are a criminal “invasion” wouldn’t be all that concerned about the problem of white nationalism. Because he’s part of it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">To underline that fact,&nbsp;<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/virginias-corey-stewart-lead-pro-trump-super-pac-61713999" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(153, 107, 61) !important;">ABC News is reporting&nbsp;</a>that the new head of the pro-Trump Keep America Great PAC will be&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/8/1824523/-Bemoaning-how-politics-sucks-Confederate-fan-boy-retires-from-leading-large-Virginia-county?" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(153, 107, 61) !important;">confederacy fan and white supremacy poster boy</a>, Corey Stewart. The far-right Stewart, who describes himself as a “disciple” of Trump, managed to lose the Senate race in Virginia by a whooping 32 point margin after his racism, lies, and general nastiness sent voters running.&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But racism, lies, and general nastiness describe the Trump GOP perfectly. Stewart’s pledge to “<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">run a very vicious and ruthless campaign,” earned him the Senate nod over more reasonable candidates. In addition to promising to be hateful, Stewart had all the other qualities the GOP seeks in a modern candidate: He won a local race&nbsp;by railing about the “invasion” of immigrants and promoting laws&nbsp;to make it easier for police to hold people on suspicion&nbsp;of being undocumented, he declared himself biggest defender of Confederate monuments and said calls to take them down were “like ISIS,” and he smugly announced that&nbsp;he was&nbsp;“Trump before Trump was Trump.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">That includes being a proud “birther” and declaring that Virginia rebelled in the Civil War because “</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">the established order was wrong.” Stewart also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17458452/alt-right-corey-stewart-virginia-gop" target="blank" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(153, 107, 61) !important;">called for a new rebellion&nbsp;</a>“because they’re trying to rob us of everything that we hold dear: our history, our heritage, our culture” — language that could have been lifted from the racist manifesto of the New Zealand shooter.&nbsp;</span>It’s that kind of language that helped Stewart earn&nbsp;the enthusiastic support of the “pro-white activists” behind the “Unit&nbsp;the Right” Nazi march in Charlottesville.&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump isn’t decrying white nationalists. He’s hiring them.</p>