Far-Right Internet Groups Listen for Trump’s Approval, and Often Hear It - NY Times

As President Trump and his allies have waged a fear-based campaign to drive Republican voters to the polls, far-right internet communities have been buoyed in recent weeks as their once-fringe views have been given oxygen.

Right-wing extremists — a catchall category for a messy constellation of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, crypto-fascists, nihilists and attention-seeking trolls — vary widely in style and ideology.

What they have in common is a feeling of empowerment — a sense that the boundaries of acceptable speech are widening in the Trump era, and a suspicion that when they talk, Mr. Trump, or those with access to him, may be listening.

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