Is that what she means?
She never says so, nor does The Duce, nor does any Trumpist surrogate, though she certainly seems from her writings to be concerned, like Pat Buchanan, with the country eventually no longer having a significant white majority.
Pointing to Nazis or Klansmen who like Trump is too much like pointing to anti-white racists who support Hillary, of whom there are plenty, some holding office.
This, too, is unfair.
Nothing in the Trump agenda - not even his immigration agenda - is about privileging whites over others in America in any way, whatsoever.
It is not even an agenda of exclusion of others from admission to America on the basis of race, nationality, or ethnicity, though the cruelty of deporting all illegals now here - regardless of race, by the way - seems for some like Coulter and Buchanan, and perhaps many others, to have a more or less frank racial motive, given the majority of illegals are non-white or of mixed race.
Or perhaps it is like the fight over voter ID laws, primarily a matter of opposing what would increase the political power of the other major party and favoring what protects or increases the power of your own.
Still, it is well known, after all, that some whites for frankly racial reasons would much rather have no immigration than significant non-white immigration.
And though not for shutting off all immigration, Trump is restrictionist enough for him to be totally their man.
Meanwhile, the exclusion of Muslims seems to have a tinge of nativism rather than national security about it, of defending the overwhelmingly Christian America that was and still is against the less overwhelmingly Christian, more religiously pluralistic America that is emerging, even as American law, culture, and life grow more secular, more post-religious.
Though in some uses you could replace "defending" in that sentence with "privileging," and "against" with "over."
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