Crowd members hold up white supremacist group's slogan at Trump/Vance event

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

Published 5:08 a.m. ET Oct. 12, 2024 | Updated 5:08 a.m. ET Oct. 12, 2024


At a campaign event last week for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance, attendees waved placards emblazoned with a slogan that is also used by a notorious white supremacist group.

Meanwhile, anti-drag and anti-LGBTQ hate sees a resurgence this week, and a new report shows extremists and conspiracy theorists spinning up lies in the wake of Hurricane Helene. It’s the week in extremism, from USA TODAY.

White supremacist slogan at Trump campaign event

At a Trump/Vance campaign rally in Saginaw, Michigan, late last week, attendees held up placards bearing the slogan “Reclaim America.” That’s the main slogan of the Texas-headquartered white supremacist hate group Patriot Front, which took to social media to question whether the signs were a tacit endorsement.

Video from the event shows Trump supporters waving placards with the “Reclaim America” slogan behind the speakers.

Patriot Front, which specializes in spreading white supremacist propaganda and holding events where chino-clad masked men march around chanting and waving flags, portrays itself as a protector of “European heritage.” Leaks and infiltration of the group have revealed it is a hardcore racist neo–Nazi organization.

Members of Patriot Front have been charged with conspiracy to riot and the organization is being sued in at least two high-profile cases.

This week, the official Patriot Front Telegram channel proudly announced the Trump campaign had “adopted” the reclaim America slogan, posting: “The phrase "Reclaim America" is a well-known slogan of Patriot Front. It remains unclear whether the Trump campaign is aware of this connection and PF's use of the phrase, especially since a simple Google search of the slogan will return a plethora of results featuring the organization.”

The Trump/Vance campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/10/12/white-supremacist-slogan-waved-trump-campaign-event/75627814007/

[Dave Bowman]

1. Godwin's law has become irrelevant, I'm afraid.

[prodigitalson]

3. I was never a fan of Godwins law

[Richard D]

4. Mike Godwin . . .

. . . on Godwin's law and comparing trump to Hitler. (In summary, it's fine to do so):



https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/19/godwins-law-trump-hitler-00132427

[prodigitalson]

10. It was used to shut down a lot of legitimate observation

before tfg. Often critiques of right wingers before tfg who clearly laid the groundwork.

Edited to say I'm glad that Godwin said that about tfg, but again his Law was never useful, quite the contrary.

[hibbing]

2. That's the party's base, no shock here n/t

[70sEraVet]

5. I'm kind of confused by the logic that was used in this article.

One line caught my attention:
"attendees waved placards emblazoned with a slogan that is also used by a notorious white supremacist group."
Couldn't the line just as easily have read:
"attendees waved placards indicating that they belong to a notorious white supremacist group."?
The wording in the article seems to suggest that the attendees merely BORROWED the slogan.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. The article indicated that Patriot Front "announced" that the campaign had embraced their slogan

From one of the bullet items in the OP excerpts -

This week, the official Patriot Front Telegram channel proudly announced the Trump campaign had “adopted” the reclaim America slogan, posting: “The phrase "Reclaim America" is a well-known slogan of Patriot Front.

So it's just like some terrorist group "taking responsibility" for a bombing, apparently Patriot Front is "taking responsibility" for spreading their hate at that rally.

[KS Toronado]

7. While reading this I thought of a new bumper sticker

SUPPORT REPUBLICAN DRAG QUEENS

[Marcuse]

9. MAGA women are doing their part.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. The Republican party needs every deplorable vote or it fades into history. It's a coalition of leftovers and evil.

[Ilsa]

11. I think the Internet Research Agency used this sort of trolling

to turn people off Hilary Clinton and turn them to Trump. It's pretty effective in some ways, if people know what's going on, history, etc. I wouldn't count on Magats to know much, though.

[Kid Berwyn]

12. The Patriot Front are NAZI poser losers

From SPLC:

Patriot Front is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism. Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country.

Snip…

Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PF’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during “Unite the Right,” including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/patriot-front