| On Thursday, the term "alt-right" entered the 2016 spotlight like never before. First, Hillary Clinton put out an ad tying Donald Trump to the alt-right. Then Trump denied he was alt-right. Then Clinton, that afternoon, called Trump alt-right for an entire speech. |
| So, what the cuck does "alt-right" mean, anyway? |
| It's an online movement of white people - young white guys, mostly - including white supremacists, nationalists, nativists and plain ol' racists. They're anxious. They're afraid. They worry whites are losing power and influence in America, and so they generally oppose immigration and multiculturalism. |
| They post zany memes on Twitter and Reddit, hate "political correctness" and love the word "cuck" (short for "cuckold"), their sick burn for establishment Republicans. |
| They also love Breitbart News, declared "the platform for the alt-right" last month by then-chairman, Steve Bannon. |
| Bannon, of course, is now Trump's campaign CEO. And that's where our story begins ... |
| It's For the Record: the politics newsletter from USA TODAY. |
| Clinton: Trump's embracing racists. Trump: You mean these decent people? |
| Clinton's Thursday speech marked her harshest attack on Trump since July's Democratic convention. She called him a bigot, one who "buys so easily into racially-tinged rumors" and let "a radical fringe take over the Republican party." |
| Trump "built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia," Clinton said. |
| As a prelude to her speech, Clinton's camp dropped a new ad that morning highlighting KKK members and white nationalists who support Trump. |
| "The reason a lot of Klan members like Donald Trump is because a lot of what he believes, we believe in," a man in a KKK robe says in the ad. |
| Trump called the ad shameful. He accused Clinton of hurling insults to deflect from a recent batch of embarrassing emails that sparked new questions about her ethics while secretary of state. |
| "She lies, and she smears, and she paints decent Americans - you - as racists," he told supporters. |
| Mark Burns, an African-American pastor and Trump surrogate, blasted Clinton for "tying the Trump Campaign with horrific racial images." |
| Except Trump ties himself to racial controversy, too: He has regularly retweeted white supremacists throughout his campaign, giving their voices a platform to his 11 million followers. |
| During a week in January, more than half of Trump's retweets were white supremacists praising him, as New York magazine noted. |
| The spotlight on Trump's ties to white supremacists and/or the alt-right comes at a less than ideal time: He's trying to win over African-American voters at present, roughly 1% of whom support him.
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| Trump on immigration: between a border wall and a hard place |
| Now that we're in the general, Trump needs Hispanic voters, too. |
| Yet analysts have suggested that Trump's description of undocumented Mexicans as "rapists," paired with calls to deport 11 million immigrants and build a giant wall at the U.S.-Mexico border might complicate things. |
| So Trump has recently softened his stance on immigration. Or is he just softening how he talks about it? Our own Eliza Collins compared Trump's past and present immigration statements and ... it's not clear. |
| In the past, Trump promised a full deportation, saying undocumented immigrants "will leave, they're going to go back to where they came from." |
| This week, he said the U.S. should "work with them," suggesting some undocumented immigrants could stay if they paid taxes. |
| When asked on CNN whether Trump was shifting his immigration stance, campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said it remained "what it's always been." |
| Either way, Trump's put himself in a pickle: If he's not actually shifting his immigration stance, he could be seen as blatantly pandering among Hispanic voters. If he is actually shifting his immigration, then he could be considered what his alt-right supporters call "a cuck." |
| Related: 76% of Americans believe undocumented immigrants are "as hard-working and honest as are U.S. citizens," a new Pew poll found, and 67% said they were "no more likely than citizens to commit serious crimes."
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| More from the campaign trail |
| • | Pro-immigration groups to Trump: You're too late, buddy (USA TODAY) | | • | The Republicans are better off if Trump loses, but not by too much.' (USA TODAY) | | • | A whole lotta conflicts of interest with the Clinton Foundation if Clinton wins (USA TODAY) | | • | 'We haven't seen a modern presidential campaign that is so lopsided in terms of advertising.' (USA TODAY) | | • | New Quinnipiac poll: Clinton tops Trump by 10 points nationally (USA TODAY) | |
| CUCKS DIDN'T START THE FIRE! |
| Of course they didn't! It was the alt-right! You must see this beautifully cringe-inducing music video courtesy of American Renaissance. |
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