Left-leaning group blames Trump for rise in hate organizations

Published February 16, 2017 6:30pm ET



A left-leaning advocacy group is blaming President Trump for the growing number of U.S.-based hate groups.

“Trump’s run for office electrified the radical right, which saw in him a champion of the idea that America is fundamentally a white man’s country,” Mark Potok argued in his Southern Poverty Law Center report that said there was a boom in white nationalist and anti-Muslim groups in 2016.

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