Energized By Trump's Win, White Nationalists Gather To 'Change The World'
"The alt-right is here, the alt-right is not going anywhere, the alt-right is going to change the world," Richard Spencer, head of the white nationalist think tank the National Policy Institute (NPI) promised at a press conference.
About 300 people — split nearly evenly between conference attendees and protesters of the conference outside — were on hand at the downtown D.C. event.
Spencer told journalists that he doesn't believe Trump himself is alt-right, the term he coined that's come to embody white supremacist, anti-Semitic and sexist ideas.
But it was clear that his surprise election has given the once fringe movement a jolt, and on Saturday they were eager to take a victory lap.
Spencer called Trump's campaign "the first step towards identity politics in the United States."
Read Spencer's further remarks on Trump and his people, his ideas about NATO and foreign policy.
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