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What part of the world do you live in, where there’s a real risk of a white supremacist politician receiving even 1% of 1% of the popular vote?

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The USA. We've had white supremacist politicians for hundreds of years, and in many parts of the us they carry more than 10% of the vote. As recently as 2016, the former head of the Ku Klux Klan received 3% of election day votes (58,000 people) for a United States Senate seat for the state of Louisiana.

Here's an article from 2018, "All The White Supremacists Running For Office": https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-supremacists-running-fo... There are 12 candidates listed.

Here's a white supremacist running unopposed for Congress in 2018: https://www.npr.org/2018/02/08/583993705/a-white-supremacist...

In Germany there has recently been an alarming rise in white nationalist political sentiment in large swaths of the country. Here's a list of European white supremacy groups: https://www.counterextremism.com/european-white-supremacy-gr...

I should have been more specific: I was referring to elections for head of state. Regardless, your post is high on rhetoric and low on content. You provide no citation for your strongest claim (that in many part of the US white supremacists carry more than 10% of the vote for some office or another). The white supremacist whom you claim is running for Congress “unopposed” will certainly be opposed by a Democrat, and will certainly lose. If only 12 white supremacists ran for office in 2018, that runs counter to the notion that white supremacists are a significant force in American politics. Almost anyone can run for office, and I highly doubt that any of them won anyway. Given the number of elected officials in the US, I think it’s fair to say that any group that doesn’t hold at least one office is not a significant political force. Can you name an elected official who is a white supremacist?

(Before you accuse me of shifting the goalposts: I wasn’t clear in my original post. If you can find a presidential election that occurred in the last 20 years in which a white supremacist received more than 0.01% of the popular vote, I’ll stand corrected. You’ll have to go back farther than 2016: I googled every candidate [1] who received more than 0.01% of the popular vote in 2016 and none of them is a white supremacist.)

1. https://transition.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2016/2016presgeresults.p...

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