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A former adviser to President George W. Bush is accusing the following Republican leader, President Donald Trump, of creating a culture of racism in America \u2014 as captured by a single photograph.<\/p>\n

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Describing a photograph in which members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front stood around a seemingly terrified African American woman on a bus in Washington DC during the 4th of July, former Republican political strategist Steve Schmidt described the image as “chilling.”<\/p>\n

“A young Black woman sits alone in the center of the frame. Around her stand scores of Nazis dressed in matching uniforms, their faces concealed, filling the railcar,” Schmidt wrote. “The image doesn\u2019t merely document a moment. It indicts an era. The symbolism could hardly be more grotesque. On the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, while fighter jets roared overhead celebrating American liberty, a Black American rode a train surrounded by masked Nazis in the nation\u2019s capital.”<\/p>\n

He encouraged readers to study the woman’s face to ask what they see before saying that in her face “most of all, I see the loneliness that accompanies courage.”<\/p>\n

After reviewing the history of America’s civil rights movements, Schmidt argued that “Donald Trump didn\u2019t invent America\u2019s oldest prejudices. He exploited them. He legitimized them. He rewarded them. He transformed grievance into political identity and extremism into social permission. That\u2019s his legacy. This photograph is evidence of it.”<\/p>\n

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Schmidt concluded, “Don\u2019t let anyone tell you this has nothing to do with MAGA. Don\u2019t let anyone insist this is some isolated phenomenon detached from the political movement that has flourished over the last decade. Political movements are measured not only by the speeches they deliver, but by the culture they create, the conduct they normalize, and the people they embolden.”<\/p>\n

Trump is also losing support among white nationalists, some of whom feel stabbed in the back over the president breaking his “no new wars” promise. White nationalists, meanwhile, are struggling with the ongoing perception that they are stupid.<\/p>\n

“White nationalism \u2026 is getting dumber,\u201d writes reporter Surya Gowda from the conservative publication The Dispatch, who cited as one example the prominent Generation Z neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s criticized Dan Bilzerian, a podcaster making a congressional bid in Florida on an anti-Israel agenda, for blaming Jews for all the world\u2019s problems despite not knowing \u2018anything about anything,\u2019 and has denounced political activist Jake Shields for promoting Adolf Hitler\u2019s supposed benevolence,\u201d Gowda wrote. \u201cFuentes thinks members of his movement are experiencing a form of \u201cmass psychosis,\u201d in which they are willing to believe every conspiracy theory that exists.\u201d<\/p>\n

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