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thehill |  According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, Breitbart embraces “ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right.  Racist ideas. 

Race-baiting ideas.  Anti-Muslim and anti-Immigrant ideas –– all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the ‘Alt-Right.’”

Alt-Right is short for “Alternative Right.” 

The Wall Street Journal describes it as a loosely organized movement, mostly online, that “rejects mainstream conservatism, promotes nationalism and views immigration and multiculturalism as threats to white identity.”

The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for the “Alt-Right.”  A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party.   

This is part of a broader story -- the rising tide of hardline, right-wing nationalism around the world. 

Just yesterday, one of Britain’s most prominent right-wing leaders, Nigel Farage, who stoked anti-immigrant sentiments to win the referendum on leaving the European Union, campaigned with Donald Trump in Mississippi. 

Farage has called for a ban on the children of legal immigrants from public schools and health services, has said women are quote “worth less” than men, and supports scrapping laws that prevent employers from discriminating based on race -- that’s who Trump wants by his side.

The godfather of this global brand of extreme nationalism is Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

In fact, Farage has appeared regularly on Russian propaganda programs. 

Now he’s standing on the same stage as the Republican nominee.  

Trump himself heaps praise on Putin and embrace pro-Russian policies.

He talks casually of abandoning our NATO allies, recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and of giving the Kremlin a free hand in Eastern Europe more generally. 

American presidents from Truman to Reagan have rejected the kind of approach Trump is taking on Russia. 

We should, too. 

All of this adds up to something we’ve never seen before.

Of course there’s always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment.  But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone.  Until now.  

On David Duke’s radio show the other day, the mood was jubilant. 

“We appear to have taken over the Republican Party,” one white supremacist said. 

Duke laughed.  There’s still more work to do, he said.

No one should have any illusions about what’s really going on here.  The names may have changed… Racists now call themselves “racialists.”  White supremacists now call themselves “white nationalists.”  The paranoid fringe now calls itself “alt-right.”  But the hate burns just as bright. 

And now Trump is trying to rebrand himself as well.  Don’t be fooled. 

There’s an old Mexican proverb that says “Tell me with whom you walk, and I will tell you who you are.”

We know who Trump is.  A few words on a teleprompter won’t change that.

He says he wants to “make America great again,” but his real message remains “Make America hate again.”