Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

by Eli Saslow

“Revolutions don’t happen at polite dinner parties,”

Derek still thought Trump had a chance to win. In each of Duke’s elections, polls failed to reveal what Don referred to as “a silent army of white believers”—voters who were too embarrassed to reveal their prejudices to a pollster but who then defaulted back to race-based decision making in the privacy of a voting booth.

No checks and balances can redeem what we’ve unleashed. The reality is that half of the voters chose white supremacy…

what voters did in elevating this man to the White House constitutes the greatest assault on our own people in a generation,