At a white nationalist hearing on Capitol Hill, GOP witnesses dispute there’s a threat by alexnazaryan
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be a hearing on white supremacy and the faltering efforts of the Trump administration to quell violent expressions of white nationalism.
Owens used her opening statement to declare that the Southern Strategy — Richard Nixon’s use of racial fears to win over Southern whites long loyal to Democrats — was a “myth” that “never happened.” That notion is popular among some conservatives, but it is not shared by mainstream historians. The shooter was, in fact, a white nationalist who has sympathized with Trump’s restrictive views on immigration.
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