White “nationalist” groups such as the KKK, neo-Nazis, American National Super PAC and others now endorse none other than Donald Trump for next president of the United States of America.  Hang your head in shame.  Let tears roll down your cheeks.  For this, my friends, is the rock bottom of the political process.

Any group or individual can endorse the candidate of their choice and they do not need permission from the candidate, so it is unfair to hold the candidate accountable for endorsements of this nature.  However, a candidate who is endorsed by a group such as KKK should and most would, disavow himself immediately and reject that endorsement.  Donald Trump did not do this.  Yes, eventually he did so in a rather offhanded manner, saying “sure, if it makes you feel better.”  He also denied knowing who David Duke, the “Grand Wizard” of the KKK is, which is blatantly false.

All that aside, though, the greater question that every citizen must ask themselves is why?  Why do such racist groups as neo-Nazis and KKK feel that Donald Trump will be good for their ideology, perhaps even share their beliefs?  The answer to that question is very simple.  All one needs to do is look back to the statements Trump has made in the past year:

• He has used various, vulgar expressions to refer to women
• He spoke of Mexican immigrants as “rapists and other criminals”
• He called for rounding up and deporting 11 million immigrants
• He had high-profile spats with prominent Latino journalists and news outlets
• He mocked Asian accents
• He let stand a charge made in his presence that Obama is a Muslim and that Muslims are a “problem” in America
• He embraced the notion of forcing Muslims to register in a database
• He falsely claimed thousands of Muslims celebrated the 9/11 attacks in new Jersey
• He tweeted bogus statistics asserting that most killings of whites are done by blacks
• He approved the roughing up of a black demonstrator at one of his events
• He demeaned those with disabilities when he publicly mocked the movements of New York Times journalist Serge Kovaleski, who has a chronic condition limiting mobility

There is only one group he has not mocked and ridiculed:  wasps (white Anglo-Saxon Protestants). It should come as no surprise, then, that those who believe in “racial purity”, whose who wish to see this become an Aryan nation, would believe Trump is their candidate.

The group identified as the American National Super PAC, in a robocall endorsing Trump, made the following statement: “We don’t need Muslims. We need smart, well-educated white people. The white race is dying out. . . Few schools anymore have beautiful white children as the majority.”  It went on to refer to Trump as “The great white hope”.  If anyone reading this blog agrees with any part of that statement, please stop reading my blog immediately and forever more.  I am ashamed to even type those words; I am ashamed to know that the person who uttered those words is a fellow member of the “human” race.

“Though all Trump supporters surely aren’t racists or bigots, even a cursory examination of social media reveals that many are.  Those supporting Trump tend to be white, less-educated and middle-aged and older”, according to Dana Milbank of the Washington Post.  That very nearly defines the membership of the KKK, as well.  It needs to be well understood that, though Trump claims to owe allegiance to none, apart from himself, as he claims to have no campaign debt to super PAC’s, there is always an expectation on the part of endorsers that there will be favours down the road in exchange for their endorsements.  What favours might groups like the KKK expect in return?  Generally, these favours are along the lines of laws proposed to further their agenda, or appointments as cabinet members or even ambassadors for the U.S.  Imagine the likes of David Duke representing our nation in a country like, say, South Africa.  Or a neo-Nazi as a cabinet member, advising the president on matters of immigration, civil rights, or foreign policy.  Conceivably, every bit of humanitarian progress that this country has made since 1865 could be wiped out in a single four-year term under a president Trump.

The endorsements of hate groups, and Trump’s reluctance to repudiate those endorsements, is only the latest in a string of moves by Trump that should horrify and disgust the citizens of this nation.  I believe, however, that this may be the most significant because it is not only about Trump being … well, Trump … but it speaks volumes about who and what he represents.  What he represents is not in keeping with the Constitution of the United States nor with the values held dear by the founders of this nation.