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There's a reason the most hateful fringe of the right wing is supporting Donald Trump.https://t.co/AqB3DM2m0N — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 25, 2016

A new campaign ad from Hillary Clinton, out today, seeks to paint Donald Trump as an ally of white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan. The spot shows footage of "white nationalist" leaders, including former KKK leader David Duke. The voices in the ad express support for Trump and his policy positions on immigration, as well as his proposed Muslim ban. We also see Trump, himself, failing to disavow David Duke and the KKK in that infamous interview with CNN's Jake Tapper.

The ad is part of a larger push this week from the Clinton campaign to associate Trump with the so-called "alt-right," which is largely a rebranding of various white supremacist groups in America and Europe. It is occasionally co-opted by other forces—and can be applied more broadly by establishment conservatives, whom alt-righters hate—but its essential character is strident ethno-nationalism, often based in pseudoscience and fanciful accounts of world history.

The hashtag #AltRightMeans is also trending nationally this morning, and it provides a window into some of the rhetoric coming out of that movement:

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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