Evan Osnos tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross how white nationalist groups found their candidate in Donald Trump —
“Because of the shooting in Charleston, there was a successful effort to have the Confederate flag removed from the State House in South Carolina and a number of retailers, for instance Walmart and Amazon, dropped it from their inventory, and for people on this very far right fringe, the people in this white nationalist community, they regarded this as an assault and they felt that this was a sign of what was to come in a future in which they would no longer have this demographic influence, they just would no longer have the numbers in America that they might have had in the past. And in that sense of vulnerability, they also found purpose….They were feeling organized and galvanized in a way that they hadn’t been before and then into that moment dropped Donald Trump.”
How White Nationalist Groups Found Their Candidate In Donald Trump
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