the overtones of white supremacy in the party, but it really is now principally the melody. i guess the good news is as trump fades ever so slightly in the republican party, he clings more to the fringes. he plays the qanon theme music at his rally. he s rapping himself ever closer with the white nationalists, but the flip side of what s happening here is who cares why trump is doing it. it s elevating the white nationalists. it s getting them a national audience over and over again. you mentioned richard spencer. when trump was elected, he said we have a psycic connection to trump and they had that all along. it s not just psychic now. there s actually a physical embrace. there s a physical embrace and they actually literally tried to overthrow the government for him, mara. it s not as if white nationalists just popped up when
identity politics on an anti-immigration website that he founded in 1999. kudlow said, well, he had known him forever, just not the white nationalist part. there you have it, the same tired excuse we re now hearing from trump who denies knowing who anyone is, denies responsibility, denying knowing who david duke is, but he did know who he is, and behind every one of these denials is something more sinister. this creeping white nationalism and its entry as a center part of trumpism which is now just republicanism, as an alternative but mainstream political philosophy. we have said it on the show. let s stock with the shock and hand wringing, the clutching of pearls. instead, we condemn it, call it out for what it is. this is another very fine people moment. very fine people invited to dine in a former president s home. joining me now, charlie sykes, editor at large for the bulwark,
trump came along. there have been whites in american politics from the very beginning and there were white nationalists who used to be very much in charge of the democratic party. they became the dixiecrats and then they became republicans. these people have always been with us, they just keep switching parties. now that they have control of the republican party, i feel like there s a collective amnesia that happens every time trump does something racist. wait a second. this is a nonexhaustive list. trump allegedly praised hitler to john kelly during his europe trip. vanity fair claimed trump s fist wife claimed he kept a book of hitler s speeches by his bed. these are old stories from the 90s. black guys counting my money, said trump, i hate it. i want short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. i could go on. he has a long history going after japanese people, black people. he s been like this the whole time. i don t understand why we play
very fine people, on both sides. very fine neonazis, according to trump. nick fuentes was at that rally along with richard spencer who helped to organize it. spencer, a prolific and proud white supremacist, muslim hating propagandist, attended duke with stephen miller, the architect of trump s muslim ban and child separation policies who now spends his time suing the federal government for helping black farmers. spencer has publicly stated he considered himself miller s mentor. let s pause on that for a moment. the person who was writing america s immigration policy was allegedly mentored by an alt-right white nationalist. that s spencer s term, by the way, alt-right, which is basically a cleaned up word for white nationalist, fascist, nazi. steve bannon who once bragged he made breitbart the home of the alt-right, was later brought on as trump s chief campaign strategist. he then had a direct line to trump, and the oval office.
thereby cementing white nationalism and nativism as key components of trump s vision. it s like six degrees of separation to a white nationalist, not even six, like three or one. then throw in the republican party and it s like, well, everyone knows your name. two house republicans, marjorie taylor greene and powell gosar, participated in an annual white supremacist event, organized by, wait for it, nick fuentes. after backlash, greene claimed she didn t know who he was. and we have matt gaetz who hosted holocaust denier charles johnson, brought him as his guest to the state of the union. gaetz then claimed he had no pre-existing relationship with the guy. just happened to have an extra ticket lying around for the anti-semite in my office. ditto on trump adviser larry kudlow who once invited peter brem alow to a birthday party at his home. he is the promoter of white