Where is the evidence that Trump is a "white nationalist"?

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From his actual policies it is clear that Trump is just another reactionary Republican, in the Reagan-Bush tradition. Like others he uses race-baiting dog-whistles and other pseudo-populist strategies to get elected, in order to pursue his real agenda of tax cuts for the rich and wars for Israel. His cabinet is  stuffed with establishment neocons, it has never included any alt-right or white nationalists. There were some alt-lite types like Bannon (right-wing Islamophobic civic nationalists) but they're mostly gone now.  And they aren't "white nationalists" - no self-described white nationalist would say they were. Nor was his "very fine people" comment an indication of support for white nationalism, rather he was saying that there were people protesting the remioval of the statue who weren't white nationalists. In other words it was just Trump being an idiot as usual. His statement that white nationalism is not a serious, rising threat was - based on my own research on the topic - true.

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Basically the reasons that I didn't vote for Trump despite voting almost always voting Republican.  He's not a white nationalist but I was put off by the fact that he was responsible for the alt-right going from irrelevant corners of the internet to displaying their hatred in the open.

White nationalists have existed out in the open for decades. You were a lot more likely to see a Klan rally or a skinhead concert in the 80s and 90s than today. Ever heard of the Greensboro massacre? Unlike Charlottesville, that didn't get national attention because it didn't fit a media narrative.

If the alt-right has grown in the past few years it has far more to do with the endless media hype and hysteria surrounding it than with anything Republicans have done to supposedly "mainstream" its views. Liberal Democrats have literally adjusted their entire worldview to be centered on opposition to this bogeyman, and being everything the dreaded "alt right" is against.