The white supremacy organizations operating in Pennsylvania are the Ku Klux Klan, National Alliance, Storm Division, Patriot Front, New Jersey European Heritage Assoc., Keystone United, American Defense Skinheads, and White Lives Matter. They all propagate racism and hatred. And they all endorse the Republican Party and its “great replacement” theory.

In short, the “great replacement” is a conspiracy belief that nonwhite individuals are being brought into the United States to “replace” white voters to achieve a political agenda. White nationalists marching at a Charlottesville, Virginia, rally that turned deadly in 2017 chanted “You will not replace us!”

These neo-Nazi and white‑nationalist groups have always gravitated toward Republican politicians whose rhetoric they interpret as sympathetic. The Trump Presidencies brought increased racism. In December 2025, Vice President JD Vance bragged to a nearly all-white audience at a Turning Point USA conference, “In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.”

Trump’s July 2019 tweets telling four Democratic congresswoman of color to “go back” to their countries — despite most being US-born — drew widespread condemnation as xenophobic and racially charged. Twice in 2023 Trump said immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.”

Trump’s racism got cruder still at the start of Black History Month 2025, when he posted a video on Truth Social in which Barack and Michelle Obama’s faces were pasted on the bodies of apes.

The aim of this undisguised bigotry is to distract white working-class MAGA supporters from Trump’s abject failure to usher in a new golden age of prosperity for them.

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

Jerry Hoare

Jim Thorpe