Donald Trump Continues to Mainstream White Nationalist Memes
With the help of the Google AdWords, Hatewatch worked to see just how heavily Trump’s continued embrace of racist and extremist ideas have influenced his supporters.
When Trump announced his candidacy in June of 2015, he made waves announcing an immigration plan that infamously called for the building of a wall along the southern U.S. border and he described Mexican immigrants as rapists.
When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
That month, the average number of Google searches for the term “Mexican rapists” jumped almost forty-fold compared to May. In July, the searches almost doubled again, rising from 390 searches to 1,000.
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