July 24, 2019

Trump believes white nationalism is a winning strategy — because Fox News tells him so

https://www.salon.com/2019/07/16/trump-believes-white-nationalism-is-a-winning-strategy-because-fox-news-tells-him-so/?fbclid=IwAR2FDhT-kT6f300sPPD3tf5aVIHUhrPnX9_ocpB6u0yCQMcVPk0yrjSQ6KU
"For years now, Fox News has been mainstreaming arguments that used to be the province of fringe websites run by neo-Nazis and other groups who believe the U.S. is meant to be a country of white people and for white people — perhaps with others permitted in small numbers of they stay quiet and keep to themselves. Trump was a major factor in the early rumblings of white nationalism on the network, which gave him considerable airtime during his reality TV days to air conspiracy theories about Barack Obama's birth certificate. Such "birther" theories rested fairly obviously, in the first place, on the belief that black people cannot be "real" Americans. Since Trump was elected, the Fox News programming that promotes white nationalist ideas has slowly grown both in airtime and in severity."