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> (vi) Trump openly used white supremacist imagery and symbolism ("88 generals, fourteen three-star or higher") throughout his campaign. [4][5][6] Noted white-supremacist website Stormfront celebrated the release of his September 6th, 2016 press release depicting multiple white-supermacist symbols.

White supremacist with a Jewish son in law and adviser. I'm sorry, now you're just being ridiculous.

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Recall: this is a populist campaign that sustained itself on a "deplorable" sad frog meme. Symbolism in politics is not irrelevant, especially when the symbols belong to groups that consider themselves to be marginalized (N.B. many white supremacists do, and will fully admit it if you hand around enough of them for long enough).

You can find the threads celebrating his announcement on Stormfront. They're real.

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Nobody accused him of white supremacy. The accusation is that he used symbols of white supremacisy to rouse and inflame a base of real white supremacists into action (presumably in a way that supports trump). It's a cynical enemy-of-my-enemy play, not an announcement that Trump or his associates are themselves white supremacists. It's certainly realipolitik, but IMO it's also immoral and unethical.