Donald Trump Becoming Too Powerful Off Of Hate? — ‘Unites’ Nation Of Islam In Right Hand And White Supremacy In The Left
From the archive: published Mar 5, 2016, 10 years ago. Details may have changed since.
Out of everyone running in the 2016 presidential election race, Donald Trump has got to be the most unique individual. Backing his campaign with an unsolicited promise to “Make America Great Again,” and void of political correctness, Trump is leading in the race for the Republican nomination. To understand just how much of a dominating lead “The Donald” has over the remaining Republican candidates that matter (Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio), he won seven states during the Super Tuesday primaries. That leaves only four remaining for the other Republican candidates in which they went to Cruz and Rubio.
Ultimately, Donald Trump is just setting the bar high among his fellow Republican candidate runners for the 2016 presidency. Yet, that set bar is often said to be high because Trump is playing off the anger and fear of the majority of American people. The fact he is fully-funded on his own income may have given him certain advantages which seems to appeal to the hate of the American people. The question is if by feeding off of said hate, is Donald Trump becoming too powerful?
Just to be clear, the kind of hate Donald Trump is getting powerful off of is racism. Over the course of his campaign, Trump has said certain things that target specific ethnic groups, often in response to a current event or situation happening either in the United States or internationally.
As for the second ethnic group, they are Black Americans. Because of numerous incidents over the course of his campaign, which includes publicly posting false information about shootings committed by Black Americans, the Black Lives Matter movement are protesting Donald Trump at his campaign meetings. However, Donald Trump, or at least local police providing protection, along with his personal security service, are not tolerating them. In many cases, Black Lives Matter protesters are ejected, sometimes violently.
All in all, the aforementioned policies have branded Donald Trump a bigoted racist. Many racist groups, especially those who long for white supremacy, have openly supported Trump. According to Huffington Post, Andrew Anglin, the publisher of the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, responded favorably to Trump, specifically towards his plan to ban Muslim travel into the United States. Thomas Robb, the current national director of the Knights of the KKK, has called Trump the “pick of the litter” out of all presidential hopefuls, as reported by Raw Story. Let’s not forget that David Duke, a former KKK Grand Wizard, also supports Donald Trump in which he said anyone (which actually means White Americans) voting against him is “committing treason to their heritage,” as reported by BuzzFeed News.
Louis Farrakhan also understood why Donald Trump is so popular, citing that Americans are sick of establishment politicians. What that means is Americans are fed up with those in the government who are “established” by powerful people and companies, usually as a mean to gain financial support. Trump already has enough money to support his own, so he is rejecting those powerful people and companies. This makes Donald Trump, what Louis Farrakhan calls, “freer than the others to really do good for the masses of people.”
Ultimately, The Daily Beast reported it best when they wrote Donald Trump is a “unifier.” In one hand, Trump has all the white supremacy establishments such as the KKK and neo-Nazis. In the other, Trump as a link to Muslims and Black Americans through Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. All these special interest groups have in one way or the other been accused of being hateful. Does that mean Donald Trump is getting too powerful off of hate?
