Women are the hate movement’s dulcet voices and its standard bearers. As purveyors and keepers and caretakers, they arguably tap into a wider spectrum of power than men do. They would be hate’s secret weapons, except there’s a difference between hiding and not being seen. Outsiders discount or overlook the women of white nationalism at America’s peril. The same goes for minimizing or ignoring the factors that push some women toward a politics of exclusion and hate. In our pluralist, capitalist, ever-shifting society, identity is a crucible in which people forge the future. For women, as ever,
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