“This is not conservatism as we have known it. This is not Republicanism as we have known it. These are race-baiting ideas, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant ideas, anti-woman – all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the ‘Alt-Right.'”
– Hillary Clinton on the rise of extreme right-wing nationalism in the Republican Party
This article appears in September 2 • 2016.
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