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OnceArdentTrump Supporters, White Nationalists Splinter Ahead of Presidential
Vote

Masood Farivar

   WASHINGTON - Once a cohesive and menacing threat closely in
   tunewithTrump administration policies, America'swhite nationalists have
   grown deeply divided and marginalizedin recent years-- thanks largely
   to a massive public backlash and social media crackdown.
   Broken and rudderless, they're now bickering among themselves over the
   2020 U.S.presidential campaign.'¯ While some white nationalists remain
   among President Donald Trump's staunchest loyalists, others,
   disappointed with the president's record on immigration and a host of
   other issues, are casting about for other candidates to support in the
   November election -- going even so far as to praise some of the views
   of democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a fierce
   Trump critic.
   "The extreme right is fractured right now in terms of their support for
   President Trump," said Joshua Fisher Birch, a researcher at the Counter
   Extremism Project. '¯"Many who originally supported him are
   disappointed with how the last few years have gone."

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