Did radical fringe groups vote for Trump? Quite possibly. Did Trump support radical fringe groups? I don't think so.
No, no, no. Radical fringe groups showed up in force at his rallies and Trump encouraged their presence. Trump's chief executive officer for his campaign was Steve Bannon. He appointed Steve Bannon his White House Chief Strategist.
Did Obama support radical racist black activist fringe groups? I don't think so either. The apparent point of the argument seems to fall apart at first glance.
No communist groups at Obama, Clinton, or Sanders rallies and no far-left appointments to the White House. At first glance, my point falls apart because you don't want to give it a proper glance.
I have no doubt there are Americans who saw a black man in the WH as a good thing and those who saw a black man in the WH as a bad thing. All of that sort of thinking is basically racist and not good for America. What difference does a candidate's race make? None to good people who oppose bad policies and support good policies regardless of race.
Yet the "birther" movement was mainstream and a point of political tactic for the GOP and right-wing media outlets for years. I believe even McCain had to correct his own constituents in 2008, despite his VP nominee running her mouth to the contrary, about Obama being an African-born Arab who hates America. Racial and religious hate for Obama built from this.
He was simply an African Muslim to far too many:
In 2016: 57 percent said it was "definitely true" or "probably true" that Obama came from Kenya.
In 2017: 51 percent of Republicans said they think Obama was born in Kenya.
I find something strangely unexplained in a former democrat activist-turned 'republican' sending bombs to democrats which were not designed to explode for no explainable reason whatsoever.
This is conspiracy making; and this sort of avoidance is what stands behind the birther nonsense, the global warming hoax nonsense, tomato paste vegetable nonsense, Benghazi nonsense, etc.
I believe God. Because I believe God I am accused of being a right wing Christian conservative. So what? I am a conservative because that is the label attached to me by men seeking to identify me politically. The bottom line, however, is that I am conservative because of my Christian views and not because of an adherence to some favored political party or group.
So what?! One must be a right-wing Conservative to be a Christian? Do you see how this is no different from Islamists who demonize the Shia, the Kurds and even other Sunni Muslims as heretics?
You are an adherent to the GOP because
white conservative Christians formed the new base in the 1950s and 1960s, whereas liberals and minorities began to gravitate towards the DNC during the Civil Right's Marches. And the right-leaning television evangelists of the 1980s made it clear where "good" Christians are supposed to fall. Aside from the issue of abortion versus right-to-choose, most issues were molded into a moral issue in which the Christian Conservative base used to define the GOP.
This is why you feel that you belong there, even with a godless, adultering, and habitual liar running the show; and even when Nazi-wannabe groups began appearing along side the average angry conservative at Trump rallies. This new GOP is not the old GOP.