Once-Secret White Supremacist Now A Mainstream Right-Wing Star

HuffPost reporter Christopher Mathias did an amazing exposé of Hanania, formerly known as the more blatantly racist Richard Hoste.

Richard Hanania, a visiting scholar at the University of Texas, used the pen name “Richard Hoste” in the early 2010s to write articles where he identified himself as a “race realist.” He expressed support for eugenics and the forced sterilization of “low IQ” people, who he argued were most often Black. He opposed “miscegenation” and “race-mixing.” And once, while arguing that Black people cannot govern themselves, he cited the neo-Nazi author of “The Turner Diaries,” the infamous novel that celebrates a future race war.

Now, under his real name, Hanania has been published by The New York Times and The Washington Post and oh, yeah, he's appeared twice on Tucker Carlson Tonight, HuffPost says. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and J.D. Vance are fans, too. “Meanwhile, rich benefactors, some of whose identities are unknown, have funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars into a think tank run by Hanania,” Mathias reported.

I highly recommend reading the entire piece as a good example of how Nazi-level extremism is now mainstream in the world of rich, powerful conservatives.

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