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| Subject: LOL: Alt-right leaders say Republicans lost the midterms because they weren't racist enough Tue Nov 13, 2018 10:21 pm | |
| Admitting Donald Trump’s brand of conservative politics likely cost the Republican Party control of the House is something supporters of the nation’s alt-right movement aren’t willing to do.
Instead, several key white nationalist figures — including American Renaissance founder Jared Taylor, Altright.com founder Richard Spencer and YouTuber Vincent James Foxx — are blaming Republicans’ midterm losses on GOP leaders’ alleged attempts to distance their party from white identity politics. During a Sunday episode of his Red Elephants YouTube vlog, James Foxx took issue with what he described as a lack of focus on immigration by Trump and Republicans in Congress during their midterm campaign efforts. He quoted from British political scientist Eric Kaufmann’s recent book Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities to illustrate his point that white identity politics and xenophobia are what fueled Trump’s rise. “‘White majority concerns over immigration is the main cause of the populist rise in the West,’” James Foxx told his 174,000 YouTube subscribers, reading a line from Kaufman’s book. “That is why people didn’t show up for Donald Trump as much as they did in 2016, because he didn’t focus on immigration enough. He focused on the economy. He talked about black jobs, black unemployment, Hispanic unemployment. Well, guess what? Black men voted more for the Democrats this time than they did in 2016. Black people overall voted the same that they did in 2016.”
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