title:  WATCH Rachel Maddow Tear Trump APART For Validating White Supremacists
text: Rachel Maddow has a way of cutting to the point with a very sharp knife, and if the point is raw and bloody when she s done, then it deserves to be. On Friday night, Maddow discussed the dangerous, white supremacist views of the alt-right, and how they relate to Donald Trump s campaign. One side of American politics is pulling a drag bar through the sewer tank of what gets flushed out of normal politics. She s right   the fact that white supremacists that think immigration from anywhere other than Europe means white genocide are embracing Trump is extremely telling.She began this particular segment with a clip of Hillary Clinton denouncing Trump and the dangerous alt-right. Those total bigots held a press conference last week, where they discussed the need for a white homeland as though it was the most natural thing on the planet. To them, Trump is their white (emphasis on white) knight in shining armor: [Richard] Spencer [who coined the term  alt-right ] was greeted with much applause by his fans in the room. He elaborated that rather than a multicultural America, his ideal is a white empire. He described his  dream ethno-state  as  a homeland for all Europeans,  which would take an  imperial form. Here s how Trump fits into that, via Mother Jones:Spencer s ideas about race are intertwined with his support for Trump. Spencer explained that he likes Trump s immigration policy, which not only calls for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants but also reduces legal immigration into the country. (Spencer s ideal policy would also favor immigrants from Europe.) But as Spencer put it, it s Trump s more intangible qualities that make him a hero of the alt-right. To Spencer, Trump s brash style suggests a white savoir, unwilling to be bullied by the politically correct crowd. These are the people who love Donald Trump, and that s what Maddow was highlighting in her show this evening. Watch some of it below:They ve made him one of their own because, to them, he hates everyone they hate. He ll make the white race truly superior again. Note that we said  everyone;  that s not by accident. The alt-right wants an actual homeland for white people, because to them, white people are victims, and have totally not forced themselves on other cultures at all: Spencer proposed the following  mantra  for his movement:  Race is real, race matters, and race is the foundation of identity.  The ultimate ideal is that the world be divided into ethno-states so that white people could have a  homeland.' And Trump is directly feeding into that. The fact that those closest to him love Pepe the Frog a symbol co-opted by the alt-right proves that. Pepe the Frog was a symbol for, well, pretty much everything, but now white supremacists use him for their eugenics propaganda. It s sick, it s disgusting, and it needs to stop. These people need to go back to the far fringes where they effing belong.Featured image by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images