In the Midterms, White Supremacy Is Running for Office

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🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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While the big story going into the midterm elections has been the possibility of a “blue wave”—an upsurge of Democratic progressives, including a high number of women and minority candidates—the divisive political climate has also given us the very opposite: candidates on the far right openly espousing white-supremacist and white-nationalist views. Andrew Marantz, who covers political extremism, among other topics, says that these views have always been on the fringes of political life, but, in the era of Trump, they have moved closer to the center. Candidates who used to “dog-whistle”—use coded language to appeal to racist voters—now openly make white-supremacist statements that Republican Party leadership won’t disavow. Marantz talks with David Remnick about the campaigns of Steve King, the incumbent in Iowa’s Fourth Congressional District; Corey Stewart, a pro-Confederate running for a Senate seat in Virginia; and Arthur Jones, a neo-Nazi running in Illinois’s Third Congressional District.

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0:56.3	Andrew has been following midterm races where alt-right ideas are showing up in the campaigns of major party candidates.
1:06.3	The big story going into the midterm elections has been the possibility of a blue wave,
1:12.7	a democratic upsurge that's notable for the number of women running and for progressive candidates like Beto O'Rourke in Texas and Alexandria O'Casio-Cortez in New York.
1:23.7	But another story in this election is the very opposite.
1:27.2	The candidates who are running as extremists on the right, openly white supremacist candidates,
1:33.1	even neo-Nazis.
1:35.1	Andrew Morantz has been covering the movement known as the alt-right, and he's watching
1:39.1	how it influences mainstream politics.
1:42.4	Andrew, you've been reporting on the fringes of right-wing nationalism and all the associated
1:48.6	movements, people like Mike Sernovich, for example, who was involved in Pizza Gate.
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