Going for the jugular, 68-yer-old Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to paint GOP nominee Donald Trump today in a speech as an “Alt-Right” racist, an extremist shadow movement of the Republican Party believing that saving America’s Anglo-Saxon bloodlines is the party’s top priority. Speaking in Reno today, not that far from the Aryan Nations in Coeur d’Arlene, Idaho, Hillary plans to link Trump to neo-Nazi extremists, something already done Feb. 28 when Trump didn’t immediately denounce David Duke’s endorsement. Playing up on Trump’s alleged ties to the white supremacist movement, Hillary’s Campaign Chairman John D. Podesta knows all the dirty tricks. Podesta fashioned Bill Clinton’s feeble defense against his tryst with 21-year-old White House intern Moncia Lewinsky, something, to this day, Bill still denies with Hillary’s blessings.
Hillary’s new offensive against Trump hopes to change the headlines, still focused on the Aug. 23 Associated Press investigative report detailing how Hillary gave over 50% of her meetings while Secretary of State to well-heeled Clinton Foundation donors. Whatever the merits of AP’s report, now denounced by the Hillary campaign, it puts the campaign on the defensive, adding insult-to-injury to Hilalry’s already shaky trust issues with voters. Hitting Trump with outrageous ties to neo-Nazis and white supremacists takes the heat off Hillary when it comes to questions about the budding pay-to-play scandal while running the State Department. Whether Trump disavows any ties to the “Alt-Right” movement, delivering the speech gives the liberal media all the red meat it needs to change the headlines. Alt-Right helps Hillary divert attention away from the Clinton Foundation.
Having Bill Clinton offer to take himself off the Clinton Foundation board Aug. 21 speaks volumes about the legitimacy of the pay-to-play allegations. Taking himself off the CF board means nothing about the four years when Hillary ran the State Department and raked in hundreds-of-millions in donations from foreign governments to the foundation. Branding Trump as “Alt-Right” continues the same campaign talking points that Trump is a racist, among other things. Trump’s recent hire of Breitbart’s Stephen Bannon, associated with the Alt-Right movement, gives Hillary spin machine an opening to change the Clinton Foundation dialogue. “Mr. Trump has never used or condoned that term and continues to disavow any groups or individuals associated with the message of hate,” said Trump campaigns spokeswoman Hope Hicks. Hiring Bannon exposes Trump to questions.
On Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute’s website, a nationalistic think tank, talks of preserving “white identity” and “Western values,” something Trump’s stressed on the campaign stump. Referring to his group as “Europeanists” or “white nationalists,” Spencer’s leanings are easily condemned as racist, something Podesta sees as a real opportunity for Hillary. Retired Elizabethtown, Pa. College professor Paul Gotlieb coined the term “alternative right,” before it was shortened to its current version of “Alt-Right.” Gotlieb suggested the “alternative right” shows “a willingnes to be influenced by the European Right,” represented in France as Marine Le Pen’s National Front Party. Unlike Le Pen’s National Front Party, the Alt-Right movement remains not a party but a loosely knit group of ideas related the dwindling influence of white majority in American society.
Speaking about Alt-Right philosophy, former California State University Long Beach psychology professor Kevin MacDonald expressed the shrinking influence of whites in American society. “White people in America are becoming a minority that is increasingly being victimized, and there’s a cost to multiculturalism and immigration,” said MacDonald. Raising Trump’s connection to the Alt-Right movement through his new Campaign Chairman Stephen Bannon raises more questions, especially to minority voters. Pivoting out of the Clinton Foundation scandal, Podesta found another way to divert the public’s attention away from Hillary’s egregious ethical lapses while secretary of state. Trump’s no more connected with the Alt-Right movement than Hillary’s a card-carrying member of the Communist Party. Using innuendo and guilt-by-association is all that Podesta needs.
Raising the Alt-Right issue gives Hillary cover from growing questions about how she granted access to Clinton Foundation donors while Secretary of State. Painting Trump as a racist continues Hillary’s campaign talking points that so far put her up about 6% aggregate in the polls. Talking about “America First” and restricting entry of Muslims from the war-torn Mideast makes Trump vulnerable to Hillary’s latest negative attacks. Bannon admitted to Mother Jones Magazine that Breitbart was “the platform for the alt-right,” but insisted the movement wasn’t racist. Now that Hillary’s exposing the Alt-Right for public consumption, it’s going to be a media feeding frenzy putting Trump on his heels. Diverting attention from Hillary’s emails or the Clinton Foundation to Trump’s Alt-right link shouldn’t stop responsible journalists from asking more questions about the Clinton Foundation.
