Chief among various constituencies associated with the term, however, is a willingness to do political battle on behalf of a “white race.” The most extreme among them advocate a white ethno-state in the manner of neo-Nazi groups.
It’s the economy, stupid: Yote Anders effectively summed up that view. “I don’t want to be treated different because of my race – I want a fighting chance to make a decent living and keep my paycheck for me. Is that racist?”
Craig Vecellio blamed Trump opponents for painting his supporters with a broad brush after mainstream media’s fanning the flames of white-racialist politics, engendering a view that such politics played a larger role than it did. One example of how such “media manipulation” was wrong, he said, was the nomination of a respected D.C. insider, Taiwan-born Elaine Chao, for U.S. Transportation Secretary.