Plus candidates who’ve said white supremacist things, hung out with white supremacists, or talked to anti-Semitic publications.
By Christopher Mathias
David Duke, an avowed white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, has run for office many times.
In 1989, he won a
seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives. In the following years,
he lost elections for U.S. Senate and Louisiana governor, earning more than 600,000 votes both
times. And in November 2016, more than 58,000 people in Louisiana voted
for Duke to be their senator. It was far from the number he needed to
win, but still an alarming show of support for a man who thinks the
Holocaust never happened.
White
supremacist candidates like Duke tend to be roundly condemned by
establishment Republicans. Voters don’t like them either ― usually. But
when they receive tens of thousands of votes, like Duke did less than
two years ago, it’s a reminder that their views are less fringe than
we’d like to imagine.
Duke isn’t running for office in 2018, but he’s encouraged by what he sees as a growing number of Republican congressional candidates who appear sympathetic to white supremacist causes or who are openly white supremacists themselves.
“I think it’s about time,” Duke told HuffPost. “I think there’s a tremendous amount of frustration in the white community and that we’re at a tipping point.”
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Source: The Huffington Post
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