Yes, there is a pattern. White nationalists, white supremacists, KKK members, and other racists and bigots love Donald Trump. They love him because he won't criticize them.
Why? There are a couple of reasons. First, he couldn't afford to do that. His approval numbers have been upside-down since he was sworn into office. He can't afford to anger any of his base -- and a large portion of his base are the racists.
But perhaps the most important reason he won't criticize them is because he is a racist and white nationalist himself. He has a long history of this. It started back in the 1970's, when the federal government admonished him repeatedly for refusing to rent to Blacks. And it has continued to this day as he tried to ban muslims from entering this country, and wants to build a wall to keep Hispanics from entering. His only reliable policy is his racism and xenophobia.
And he's not going to change. After the murders in New Zealand by a white nationalist, Trump was asked if he thought white nationalism was a growing danger in the world. He said he didn't think so. That was demonstrably false. And the FBI would be happy to set him straight, if he would listen to them.
The following is just part of an excellent article by Judd Legum at Popular Information:
Donald Trump says white nationalism is not a growing threat. He's wrong.
Over the last ten years, according to data analyzed by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), "73.3% of all domestic extremist-related killings have been perpetrated by right-wing extremists, compared to 23.4% perpetrated by terrorists motivated by Salafi-jihadism and 3.2% by left-wing extremism."
Last year, domestic extremists killed at least 50 people in the United States and "every one of the perpetrators had ties to at least one right-wing extremist movement," and "[w]hite supremacists were responsible for the great majority of the killings." These attacks are on the rise. "The number of terrorist attacks by far-right perpetrators rose over the past decade, more than quadrupling between 2016 and 2017," according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI jointly produced a report in 2017 entitled "White Supremacist Extremism Poses Persistent Threat of Lethal Violence." That report proved prescient when a white nationalist, anti-immigrant, and anti-Semitic man murdered 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue last October.
In addition to violence, white supremacists have also rapidly increased their recruitment and visibility. ADL data "shows white supremacists’ propaganda efforts increased 182 percent, with 1,187 distributions across the U.S. in 2018, up from 421 total incidents reported in 2017."
It is a global phenomenon. In Europe, "far-right attacks" jumped "43% between 2016 and 2017." While "deaths resulting from terrorism decreased 27% worldwide" the "the threat of far-right political terrorism is on the rise."
That Trump is a white nationalist, just like his father was, is beyond dispute.
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