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MAKE AMERICA HATE AGAIN

Meet the white nationalists salivating at the thought of a Trump presidency.

IN EARLY MAY, the California secretary of state published a list of delegates chosen by Donald Trump’s campaign for the state’s upcoming Republican presidential primary. The slate featured a few big names, including PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. But the most striking inclusion was buried midway through the list: William Johnson, delegate for the 34th district—and one of the country’s most prominent white nationalists.

A corporate lawyer who grows persimmons and raises chickens on 67 acres in a Los Angeles suburb, Johnson leads the American Freedom Party, a group that “exists to represent the political interests of White Americans” and aims to preserve “the customs and heritage of the European American people.” An AFP candidate has never been elected to public office, and the party possesses at most a few thousand members, but

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