“The Trump moment is over, and it’s time for us to move on,” Spencer concluded. #WalkAway
Richard Spencer rebukes Trump, won't vote for him in 2020
Richard Spencer and other white nationalists are urging their followers to “move on” from Donald Trump’s “moment.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Spencer is far from the only white nationalist who’s publicly turned on Trump, as evidenced by a tweet thread he made last week.
“Trump misfired before he took office—appointing the very people he ran against,” the white nationalist tweeted. “As I played out in 2016, Trump basically had a year and a half to enact lasting immigration reform.”
“Trump didn’t seize this moment,” he added. “He instead enacted Paul Ryan’s agenda. Throughout 2017-18, we got lots of hilarious tweets but, policy-wise, Trump’s presidency differed little from what we could have expected from Jeb or Marco.”
“The Trump moment is over, and it’s time for us to move on,” Spencer concluded.
In chess, your opening is all important. The middle game is where the action happens, and the end game is decisive. But if you botch your opening, it is almost impossible to recover.
Donald Trump botched his opening.
Richard ⛄️ Spencer
@RichardBSpencer
Indeed, Trump misfired before he took office—appointing the very people he ran against. As I played out in 2016, Trump basically had a year and a half to enact lasting immigration reform. The Midterms are always tricky and once 2019 rolls around, it's election season once again.
The SPLC noted that Greg Johnson of the white nationalist website Counter-Currents called the GOP’s midterm losses in 2018 “a near-death experience for the Right, especially White Nationalists.”
“We should know by now that we can’t depend upon Republicans,” Johnson wrote in his moratorium on the midterms. “And Trump himself is at best on probation. We can only depend on ourselves. … Trump is not the last chance for the white race in North America.”
Patrick Casey, the leader of the “white identity” group Identity Evropa who earlier in the month posted photos of his garden tour at the White House, had a similar assessment to Johnson and Spencer.