MSNBC: Rachel Maddow describes how the Trump campaign, influenced by fringe-right media like his campaign CEO's Breitbart News, tried to rally supporters in Mississippi around European nationalist politics by introducing British "Brexit" leader Nigel Farage as a guest speaker.



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RACHEL MADDOW: The Trump campaign weirdly tried to make that a thing a couple weeks ago. It didn't go over or become a thing. And that's because it's only a tiny corner of the American right that's obsessed with racial politics and nationalist politics in Europe.



That corner has made a home for it at a conservative website called Breitbart. The reason Donald Trump was even tying it on for size, is apparently because of the influence of Breitbart and that ilk of Republicans and conservative politics in his presidential movement.



The chairman of Breitbart is now the CEO of the Trump campaign.



In addition to hating Angela Merkel as a race traitor to Germany for being too pro immigrant, another object of fascination is the UK Independence party. They are the of the inheritor of the legacy of the British National Party. Before that the British Union of Fascists. They represent the most recent iteration of what Europe has had for a long time now in various guises. Anti-immigrant, racial nationalist politics in European countries.

MADDOW: And most Americans don't care.



But there's a sliver of if right wing, the sort of Breitbart sliver of the right wing that is obsessed with that party. They have a UK version of itself, the UK version of Breitbart, their editor and chief left his job at Breitbart to go work for the UK Independence party, much like the Breitbart chair in the U.S. went to go work for Donald Trump...



And you know what? There's no reason you should know that. Most Americans have not within sitting on the edge of their seat hanging on every twist and turn of racist and fascist European political movement.



Most Americans don't have strong feelings about European politics of any kind or the constituent states of the European Union. It's not a pressing thing.



Only the fringe element of the far right is obsessed with that. Because they really want politics like that here. And those folks have now been elevated to the top of the Republican Party, as unlikely as that might seem. That is how we ended up last night with Donald Trump standing in front of a basically mystified all white audience in Mississippi introducing this British guy, the leader of the UK independence party to preach in Mississippi about how politically inspirational it was when Britain voted for Brexit. As if anybody in that room had any idea what he was talking or how they should feel about it.