White Supremacists ♡ Trump: ‘He Has Sparked An Insurgency’ And Is ‘Creating A Movement’

The nation’s top white supremacist website is thrilled with the growth they’re seeing, and they credit Donald Trump for it.

Donald Trump has many fans – the latest polls this week show him with more than a third of the GOP vote. Included among the devoted are the people who run Stormfront, the nation’s leading white supremacist website and forum, and a source of millions of vile, racist, hate-filled posts.

“Demoralization has been the biggest enemy and Trump is changing all that,” Stormfront founder Don Black tells Politico. Black says they’ve had to upgrade their servers to handle the increase in traffic, and says his radio call-in program has benefitted too, attracting new listeners and callers.

“He’s certainly creating a movement that will continue independently of him even if he does fold at some point,” Black says. He adds that Trump “has sparked an insurgency and I don’t think it’s going to go away.”

Stormfront reports they average about one million unique visitors monthly. Politico reports Black says Trump has helped drive traffic, and attributes traffic jumps of 30-40 percent to Trump’s comments on immigration or Muslims.

Judd Legum, an editor at the progressive news and opinion site ThinkProgress, just posted this observation:

David Duke, a former KKK Grand Wizard and former Republican politician and elected lawmaker, is perhaps one of the best-known white supremacists in America. Duke calls whites European Americans, and tells Politico that Trump has “made it ok to talk about these incredible concerns of European Americans today, because I think European Americans know they are the only group that can’t defend their own essential interests and their point of view.”

“He’s meant a lot for the human rights of European Americans,” Duke adds.

Mediaite notes that “even though Trump has shown disinterest in Duke’s endorsement, he has not expressed great concern with the accusations of racism sent his way.”

A former KKK leader, Tom Metzger, founder of White Aryan Resistance, another white supremacist group, says of Trump, “As long as he’s causing chaos and havoc with the citizens, he’s fine with me.”

 

Image by Jamelle Bouie via Flickr and a CC license
Hat tip: Mediaite