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SPLC Hatewatch: Longtime antigovernment militia organizer calls for 'lone wolf' action against antifa

Political Research Associates, a Massachusetts-based social justice organization, accurately detailed Trump’s appeal to the fundamentally antigovernment Patriot movement when it wrote, “Trump isn’t exactly the movement’s ideal candidate … But quite a number of Trump’s views — his toxic combination of bellicose patriotism, Fear of or distaste for people or ideas thought to be strange or foreign. Often fomented to build support for anti-immigrant measures. Learn more and A form of religious bigotry, with strong racial components, that scapegoats & demonizes Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim. Learn more ; implicit A social movement based on a belief in biologically determined racial hierarchies, often with the ultimate goal of establishing an all-White nation state. Learn more ; protectionist but pro-capitalist politics; as well as his thinly veiled threats of violence and penchant for wild conspiracy theories — all hit the same notes as the Patriot movement.”

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