JARED TAYLOR

Jared Taylor, leader of right wing extremist group American Renaissance, claims creating the phrase, “alt-right” but whether he did or not he is still a hard core white nationalist who has tried to normalize his extreme racism through pseudo-science. As with other racists in the west, Taylor has found a home in Russian support. Jared Taylor was not only invited to the “International Russian Conservative Forum” organized by Rodina leader, Aleksei Zhuravlyov, the Wall Street Journal reported his travel and lodging were paid for by the organizers.[i] Taylor told his Russian audience of the “American disease” of multicultural integration.[ii] Taylor claims on the American Renaissance site that Russia and the United States have never fought a war against each other which fails to see the amount of blood spilled in proxy wars and the century of spying and active measures.

Notably, he used his role to conduct robocalls on behalf of Donald Trump in the 2016 Election.[iii] And while some campaigns can’t control who may advocate for them, Taylor was validated when he was retweeted by Trump before Twitter suspended Taylor’s account.[iv]

Taylor called the United States “the greatest enemy of tradition everywhere”[v]

“There is a worldwide awakening of nationalism among European countries-and I include the United States in that.” – “All across Europe, we are seeing the rise of parties expressing the idea that Europe, in order to remain Europe, must remain European”.[vi]

[i] Alan Cullison, Wall Street Journal, “Far-Right Flocks to Russia to Berate the West”, March 23, 2015, https://www.wsj.com/articles/far-right-flocks-to-russia-to-berate-the-west-1427059613

[ii] YouTube video, “Race Situation In America- Jared Taylor in Russia”, May 12, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbA4OSAezfI

[iii] Stephen Piggot, Southern Poverty Law Center, “White Nationalists Continue to Support Trump Through Robocalls”, January 12, 2016, https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/01/12/white-nationalists-continue-support-trump-through-robocalls

[iv] Hayley Tsukayama, Washington Post, “Twitter purge suspends account of far-right leader who was retweeted by Trump”, December 18, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/18/twitter-purge-suspends-account-of-far-right-leader-who-was-retweeted-by-trump/?utm_term=.b1a59a6aed55

[v] Natasha Bertrand, Business Insider, “A Model for civilization: Putin’s Russia has emerged as ‘a beacon for nationalists’ and the American alt-right”, December 10, 2016, http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-connections-to-the-alt-right-2016-11

[vi] Alan Feuer, Andrew Higgins, New York Times, “Extremists turn to a leader to protect western values: Vladimir Putin”, December 3, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/world/americas/alt-right-vladimir-putin.html?mcubz=0