David Duke ran for US Senate in Louisiana, in 1990 and got 60% of the white vote. His Klan affiliation had no impact on convincing white Louisianans to vote against him. Only when his Neo-Nazi affiliations and beliefs were made clear, and voters had to consider what electing a man such as that would mean to the reputation of their state, did enough whites turn against him (and enough people of colour turn out at the polls) to defeat him.
This is a guy Duke who is true believer in Hitlerian Nazism. Read his 1998 autobiography, “My Awakening” and his praise for Adolf Hitler, denial that the Holocaust happened, and calls for an all-white America.
Duke does not simply want to “defend the rights and interests of white people” (whatever the f**k that means); rather, he wishes to purge the U.S. of non-whites altogether. But yet you seriously think that the backing of a Trump's presidency by David Duke (the former Imperial Wizard of the KKK) means nothing.
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