Why a Vote for Trump Is a Vote for Mainstreaming Anti-Semites
Earlier this week, Donald Trump Jr., a key coordinator of his father’s presidential campaign, sparked controversy when he retweeted a notorious anti-Semite to his 631,000 followers on Twitter. The comment itself was not anti-Semitic, but a criticism of Hillary Clinton, which is probably how the younger Trump was taken in:
Kevin McDonald is not some random political commentator, however. He has been dubbed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “the neo-Nazi movement’s favorite academic,” thanks to his authorship of “a trilogy that supposedly ‘proves’ that Jews are genetically driven to destroy Western societies.” He also edits The Occidental Observer, a white supremacist and anti-Semitic journal. As a rather fringe racist, McDonald usually gets only a handful of retweets from his Twitter account. But with the help of Donald Trump Jr., the neo-Nazi was not only introduced to over half a million readers, but his tweet received over 600 retweets.
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