David Duke

[[File:Rsz davidduke.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Duke in Saxony, Germany.]]{{bronze}}{{nazism}}{{cquote|I am a National Socialist. You can call me a Nazi if you want to.|||David Duke<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bridges |first=Tyler |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X2WD3EnAVvEC&pg=PA15 |title=The Rise of David Duke |date=1994 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-0-87805-684-2 |pages=15}}</ref><ref name=Reed>[https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1992/04/09/his-brilliant-career/ His Brilliant Career]</ref>}}{{cquote|White people don't need a law against [[rape]], but if you fill this room up with your normal black bucks, you would, because [[Black brute|niggers are basically primitive animals]].<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20180508054735/https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/combating-hate/David-Duke-long-article.pdf David Duke: In His Own Words], Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved 4 February 2021</ref>|||As if you needed any more proof that this guy is an [[asshole]].}}
'''David Ernest "The [[Goyim]] Know, Shut it Down" Duke''' {{lived|1950}} or, as he likes to emphasize, [[Professor of nothing|'''''Dr.'' David Duke ''PhD.''''']], but frequently derided as David DuKKKe for his youthful indiscretion as a [[Ku Klux Klan]] leader, is a failed [[United States|American]] politician, [[white supremacist]], and [[neo-Nazi]] activist. He is a former Klansman who claims he left his racist days behind long ago, though his political activities suggest otherwise. He uses the word "[[Zionism|Zionist]]" more than the words "and" or "the". Duke's rise in the Klan was due to his ability to appear mainstream in an attempt to normalize them. He now spends most of his time [[WAKE_UP|moaning about the Jews on the internet]]. 

Duke speaks against what he describes as [[International Jewish Conspiracy|Jewish control]] of the [[Federal Reserve]] Bank, the federal government and the [[Liberal media|media]]. Duke supports the preservation of what he considers to be [[Western culture]] and traditionalist Christian [[family values]], [[Constitutionalism]], abolition of the [[Internal Revenue Service]], racial segregation, anti-[[Communism]] and [[white separatism]].<ref name="duke_ma_39">{{cite web | last = Duke | first = David | title = An Aryan Vision | work = My Awakening | publisher = SolarGeneral | url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070430131839/http://www.solargeneral.com/library/ma/39.html | accessdate = 2006-11-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = Duke | first = David | title = Kayla Rolland: One More Victim |date=October 23, 2004 | url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060515004432/http://www.davidduke.com/?p=21 | accessdate = 2006-11-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = David Duke: In His Own Words / On Segregation | publisher = Anti-Defamation League | url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020911230441/http://www.adl.org/special_reports/duke_own_words/on_segregation.asp | accessdate = 2006-11-13}}</ref> He also opposes what he considers to be "[[Homosexual_agenda|promotion of homosexuality]]" by Jews.<ref name=DivConq>{{cite web|last1=Duke|first1=David|title=Jewish Supremacists, Homosexuality and Divide and Conquer|url=http://davidduke.com/jewish-supremacists-homosexuality-and-divide-and-conquer/|website=davidduke.com|accessdate=24 December 2014}}</ref>

In 2002, Duke pleaded guilty to mail fraud and tax-related charges and served a 15 month prison sentence.<ref>[http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-12-18-david-duke_x.htm USA Today:David Duke pleads to mail fraud, tax charges]</ref>

==Early life of a loser==
[[File:DuKKKe.webp|165px|thumb|right|Famous image of Duke in a KKK uniform, dated 1978.<ref>[https://www.nydailynews.com/2016/10/22/former-ku-klux-klan-grand-wizard-david-duke-narrowly-qualifies-for-us-senate-debate-to-be-held-at-a-historically-black-college/ Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke narrowly qualifies for U.S. Senate debate to be held at a historically black college]</ref>]]
Duke joined the [[Ku Klux Klan]] in 1967 while still a teenager.<ref name=Reed/> Duke, although he does not deny this part of his life, is willing to tell some rather misleading statements about what the Klan was like at this point in history. On one occasion, for example, he wrote:

{{quotebox|It is true that as a young man, over 35 years ago I was in a totally nonviolent KKK organization in Louisiana. I forgive people in Europe and elsewhere for not knowing much about the Klan, but in America, the Klan was once a popular part of the community in the South with many elected Governors, Senators and others. Klan groups were and are completely independent and separate from one another, and had very different structures. . . The group I was a part of was strictly non-violent. In fact, not a single member of my organization was ever charged or even accused of any racially oriented crime. I repeat that. No one in my organization was ever accused of any violent crime.<ref name=believe>[https://davidduke.com/dr-david-duke-really-believe/ Dr. David Duke: Who I am and What I Really Believe</ref>}}

First off, although the Klan was once a part of typical life for many people in the South, that ended long before Duke left. According to Tyler Bridges, "By the time Duke identified himself as a Klansman in 1973, the group had been discredited and membership had shrunk to about 3,000 from roughly 50,000 in 1965."<ref name=rise>''The Rise of David Duke'' by Tyler Bridges</ref>{{rp|37-38}} Duke was not merely a young man blissfully unaware as to what his community organization was up to, he was an active member of the organization and attempted to promote it, even to other nations. As Bridges notes, "Duke traveled to other countries in the late 1970s trying to build a worldwide network of racialists."<ref name=rise/>{{rp|74}}

Furthermore, although Duke himself never engaged in violence against anybody to our knowledge, that does not mean he was quite as peaceful as he wants people to think. Bridges notes their were occasions where "Duke spoke publicly in favor of violence" although "as part of his effort to give the Klan a facelift, he sought to erase its violent image." Bridges specifically notes an episode where "two of his Klansmen were arrested during the October 1974 flare-up in Destrehan for carrying illegal guns" as well as the fact that "Duke and the ''Crusader'' were highly sympathetic to former and current Klansmen who were accused, tried, or convicted of violence."<ref name=rise/>{{rp|53}}

The aforementioned letter also contains something that it is worth addressing, Duke writes that "Condemning me for my associations as a young man is obviously unfair when one considers that many people in politics also evolved from controversy in their early days."<ref name=believe/> Here, as much as it pains us to say it, Duke has a point. It would obviously be unfair to judge somebody, especially of Duke's time and place of birth, who got swept up into white supremacist ideology in his younger years only based on their actions during this time of their life. However, as will be explored below, Duke has not changed in the slightest since he was a young Klansman, and still very much agrees with everything he said during those times of his life. If Duke had woken up one day, realized all the racist bullshit he was saying was just that, apologized for it, and become a different person, then this would be nothing more than an uncomfortable episode from the past of a decent man. However, Duke is still racist, meaning the only thing that has changed since he left the Klan is the kind of clothes he wears.

While attending Louisiana State University,<ref group=note>Motto: "LSU. Go in dumb, come out dumb too".</ref> he joined the [[National Socialist]] White People's Party and founded an LSU student chapter of the group in 1970 called the White Youth Alliance. Duke became a notorious joke on campus for parading around in a [[Nazism|Nazi]] uniform. After graduating from college, he formed a new Klan group called the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. This was when some Klan leaders were trying to resurrect their group's image by shedding the white sheets and putting on suits and ties. Even he eventually got tired of dealing with the sort of degenerates and misfits the Klan attracts, and left the Klan in 1980 to found a "more professional" organization called the National Association for the Advancement of White People.<ref name=SPLC>[http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/david-duke SPLC on Duke]</ref> Although by the time of his leaving, many members of the Klan were both upset with the amount of publicity Duke was getting and were furious when he was caught selling the membership list of his organization to a rival Klan leader, who later turned out to be an FBI informant.<ref name=Reed/>

The NAAWP proceeded to attract the same sort that the Klan did. Julia Reed noted in a 1992 article for ''The New York Review of Books'' that his newsletter was virtually identical to ''The Crusader'', and that he the organization sold books with titles like ''The Hitler We Loved and Why'' and ''The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: Did Six Million Really Die?''.<ref name=Reed/>

Today, Duke hangs out on [[Stormfront]] with a whole new crop of twits and misfits.<ref name=SPLC/>

==Running for office==
[[File:DvW.jpg|165px|thumb|right|Famous bumper sticker from the 1991 election.<ref>[https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/opinion/sweeney-the-crook-the-klansman-and-the-quandary/ Sweeney: The crook, the Klansman and the quandary]</ref>]]
{{cquote|The only thing we have in common is we're both wizards under the sheets.|||Edwin Edwards<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/02/20/edwin-edwardss-greatest-hits-crooks-super-pacs-and-viagra/ The greatest quotes of Edwin Edwards]</ref>}}
Duke was a serious wake-up call for those who thought politicized racism was a thing of the past, a mere artifact dusted periodically by the [[Strom Thurmond]]s of the world. It's not the same as a politician being freshly vetted in the 80s-90s, never really distancing himself from his "white power" bona fides, and getting elected for it.

Duke ran umpteen times for several public offices on the Democratic, Republican, and Populist Party tickets. Most of the time, he did poorly. Still, the voters in [[Louisiana]] must have been [[alcohol|drunk]] on November 3, 1989, because Duke somehow managed to get himself elected to a term in the Louisiana State House of Representatives as a [[Republican]]. His actual attempts to govern were weak, with one of his fellow local politicians saying he was  "so single minded, he never really became involved in the nuts and bolts of House rules and parliamentary procedure. It was just that shortcoming that led to the demise of most of his attempts at lawmaking."<ref>Ron Gomez, "David Duke? He's Just Another Freshman", My Name Is Ron And I'm a Recovering Legislator: Memoirs of a Louisiana State Representative, Lafayette, Louisiana: Zemog Publishing, 2000, pp. 157-164; ISBN 0-9700156-0-7</ref>

Smelling the sweet stench of success, he ran for U.S. Senate the next year against incumbent J. Bennett Johnston. Fortunately, Duke lost.<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-07-mn-2993-story.html Johnston Beats Duke, 54-43%, in Louisiana]</ref> Undaunted, he ran for governor of Louisiana in 1991. His opponent, Edwin Edwards, was notoriously corrupt and has been sentenced more than once on various charges of racketeering, bribery, etc. Because of this, Duke actually had a substantial likelihood of getting elected governor of Louisiana, and the race attracted national attention over concern an avowed [[white supremacy|white supremacist]] could win the seat. This spawned the bumper stickers seen around Louisiana, "Vote for the Crook: It's Important", and "Vote for the lizard, not the wizard".<ref>[https://rollcall.com/2015/11/05/louisiana-governors-election-continues-tradition-of-unusual-party-splits-2/ Louisiana Governor’s Election Continues Tradition of Unusual Party Split]</ref> Duke's history of racism also led to many of his fellow Republicans, including then-President [[George H. W. Bush]],<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/07/us/the-1991-election-louisiana-bush-denounces-duke-as-racist-and-charlatan.html THE 1991 ELECTION: Louisiana; Bush Denounces Duke As Racist and Charlatan]</ref> to come out against him. Edwards won, 61-39%.<ref>[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/david-duke-1991-governor-primary-edwards-roemer-slow-burn-transcript.html David Duke’s War Against Two Louisiana Governors]</ref>

Still not getting the message, Duke sought the Republican nomination for president in 1992, which tanked so badly it consigned Duke to the [[Alan Keyes]] realm of [[perennial candidate]]s. And satirical songs!<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ6fRky-XPw David Duke Is Running For President]</ref>

In July 2016, Duke announced that he would be running for the United States Senate, in an ominous move representative of the growing prevalence of far-right politics in America. He said of his campaign, "Thousands of special interest groups stand up for African-Americans, Mexican Americans, Jewish Americans, etc. The fact is that European Americans need at least one man in the United States, one man in Congress, who will defend their rights and heritage."<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/22/politics/david-duke-senate-race/ Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke running for Senate seat in Louisiana]</ref> Evidently, Duke fails to realize that this description applies to [[Jeff Sessions|pretty]] [[Pat Toomey|much]] [[Louie Gohmert|every]] [[Peter King|Republican]] [[Virginia Foxx|congressman]]. If elected, he would have replaced the vacated seat of the not-as-crazy-but-still-pretty-nuts [[David Vitter]]. [[Donald Trump]] [[stopped clock|refused to support]] his run for senate, and toyed with the idea of voting for a Democrat over Duke in the area – "depending on the Democrat", of course.<ref>Maddow, Rachel; Fayard, Caroline (August 4, 2016). [https://youtu.be/FDZLCxj1qD4 "David Duke Raises Stakes In Louisiana Race"]. ''The Rachel Maddow Show'', MSNBC.</ref> In the end, Duke lost the election badly, getting only 3 percent of the vote.<ref>[https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2016/11/08/louisiana-senate-election-results/93435572/ "Kennedy, Campbell face off in U.S. Senate race runoff"] by Greg Hillburn, News Star, 2016 November 8</ref>

==Delusions==
A look at some of Duke's statements reveals a man with significant delusions of grandeur; he claims his books to be among the most influential in the world (not to mention his website!).<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20090205061747/http://www.davidduke.com/general/1957_1957.html David Duke begging for your money]<br>"''Davidduke.com has become one of the most important Internet Websites in the world standing forthrightly against the Jewish supremacist threat against the heritage and freedom of our people.<br>Dr. Duke’s Books, My Awakening and Jewish Supremacism, have become two of the two most influential and important books in the world. No two books are more important for the awakening our people.''"(archived from [http://www.davidduke.com/general/1957_1957.html the original] on 5 February 2009)</ref> He has said that he flew perilous missions to drop supplies to anti-communist guerrillas in Laos. However, no-one can recall him doing this.<ref>[https://arthuriana.substack.com/p/what-was-david-duke-doing-in-laos What Was David Duke Doing in Laos?]</ref> He also claims to have been begged to run in the [[2012 U.S. Presidential Election]] on a Republican ticket.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110728183253/http://www.davidduke.com/general/will-dr-david-duke-run-for-u-s-president_17873.html Will Dr. David Duke Run for U.S. President?]</ref>

==Affiliations==

===Knights of the Ku Klux Klan===
In 1974, Duke founded the Louisiana-based [[Ku Klux Klan#Knights of the Ku Klux Klan|Knights of the Ku Klux Klan]] (KKKK: for when three Ks just isn't enough), shortly after graduating from LSU.<ref>Rose, Douglas. ''The Emergence of David Duke and the Politics of Race'' University of North Carolina Press. 1992</ref> He became Grand Wizard of the KKKK. Duke first received broad public attention during this time, as he endeavored to market himself in the mid-1970s as a new brand of Klansman: well-groomed, engaged, and professional. Duke also reformed the organization, promoting nonviolence and legality, and, for the first time in the Klan's history, women were accepted as equal members, and Catholics 
Jews and black people
 were encouraged to apply for membership.<ref>{{cite web|title=Photo of David Duke at a Klan cross lighting ceremony|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041217093024/http://aliciapatterson.org/APF1503/Berry/Berry01.jpg|accessdate=2006-09-02}}</ref> Duke would repeatedly insist that the Klan was "not anti-black", but rather "pro-white" and "pro-Christian." Duke told ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' he left the Klan in 1980 because he disliked its associations with violence and could not stop the members of other Klan chapters from doing "stupid or violent things."<ref>{{cite web|last=Leonard|first=Tom|title=David Duke: Nick Griffin was 'lynched' on Question Time|date=23 October 2009|publisher=''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Torygraph]]''|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6419715/David-Duke-Nick-Griffin-was-lynched-on-Question-Time.html|accessdate=25 January 2015}}</ref>

In 1980, Duke left the Klan and formed the {{wpl|National Association for the Advancement of White People}} (NAAWP), a [[white nationalist]] organization.<ref>{{cite news|title=David Duke to Leave Klan|date=July 25, 1980|publisher=St. Petersburg Times|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6WlQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c1oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3031,820625&dq=national-association-for-the-advancement-of-white-people&hl=en| accessdate=2011-01-16}}</ref>

Notably, Duke was severely [[troll]]ed in 1979 by [[police]] detective {{wpl|Ron Stallworth||.}} Stallworth convinced Duke into signing his KKK membership form, without Duke knowing that Stallworth is [[African American]]. Stallworth's investigation of the clan was described in his book, ''Black Klansman'',<ref>''Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime'' by Ron Stallworth (2014) Flatiron Books. ISBN 9781250299031.</ref> and later dramatized in the film {{wpl|BlacKkKlansman|''BlacKkKlansman''|.}}

===Ernst Zündel and the Zundelsite===
Duke has expressed his support for [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust denier]], [[wingnut]], and [[crank]] [[Ernst Zündel]], a German emigrant in Canada. Duke made a number of statements supporting Zündel and his Holocaust denial campaign.<ref>{{cite web|authors=Grobman, Alex; Medoff, Rafael|title=Holocaust Denial: A Global Survey — 2003|year=2003|publisher=The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies| url=http://www.wymaninstitute.org/articles/2003-denialreport.php|accessdate=2006-09-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Lipstadt|first= Deborah|title=David Duke Visits Syria to support Syrian Government and Attack Jews and Israel|date=November 28, 2005|url=http://lipstadt.blogspot.com/2005/11/david-duke-visits-syria-to-support.html|accessdate=2006-09-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last= Churchill|first=Ward|title=Assaults on Truth and Memory: Holocaust Denial in Context|date=October 1996|publisher=ZNet|url= https://web.archive.org/web/20010222012437/http://zena.secureforum.com/znet/ZMag/articles/cot96church.htm|accessdate=2006-09-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Holocaust Denial: The State of Play|date=January 22, 2004|publisher=The Australian Jewish News|url=http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=172| accessdate=2006-09-02|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060910020923/http://ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=172|archivedate=September 10, 2006}}</ref> After the aging and decrepit Zündel was deported from Canada to Germany<ref>{{cite web|last=Duke|first=David|title=Free Zundel!|date=February 26, 2005|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515015745/http://www.davidduke.com/?p=263|accessdate=2006-09-02}}</ref> and imprisoned in Germany on charges of inciting the masses to ethnic hatred,<ref name="adl_zundelprofile">{{cite web|title=Ernst Zundel|publisher= Anti-Defamation League|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011214000340/http://www.adl.org/learn/Ext_US/zundel.asp|accessdate=2006-09-02}}</ref> Duke referred to him as a "political prisoner".

=== 2005 doctorate ===
In September 2005, Duke received a Candidate of Sciences degree in history from the Ukrainian {{wpl|Interregional Academy of Personnel Management}} (MAUP).<ref name="doctor" />

His doctoral thesis was titled "Zionism as a Form of Ethnic Supremacism,"<ref name="doctor">{{cite web|last=Duke|first=David|title=David Duke Achieves Doctorate in Ukraine|date=September 9, 2005|url=http://www.davidduke.com/index.php?p=394|accessdate=2006-11-16}}</ref> which apparently Duke feels no shame or [[irony]] saying this as a former Klansman.

The [[Anti-Defamation League]] claims that MAUP is the main source of [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]] activity and publishing in [[Ukraine]],<ref>{{cite web|title= Ukraine University of Hate|date=November 3, 2006|publisher=Anti-Defamation League|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060211183506/http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Semitism_International/maup_ukraine.htm|accessdate=2006-11-16}}</ref> and its "anti-Semitic actions" were "strongly condemned" by Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk and various organizations.<ref>{{cite web|title=Foreign Minister Tarasyuk: MAUP Activities Unlawful|date=January 24, 2005|publisher=Ukrainian Embassy|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060925081559/http://www.ukraineinfo.us/embassy/press-releases/press-releases-06/060125.html|accessdate=2006-11-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Gawdiak|first=Ihor|title=Ukrainian American Organization [UACC] Gratified by Official Condemnation of Anti-Semitic Institution in Ukraine|date=January 27, 2006|publisher=BRAMA News and Community Press|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060212020621/http://www.brama.com/news/press/2006/01/060127uacc_MAUP-condemnation.html|accessdate=2006-11-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Levin|first=Mark|title=Ukraine Government Calls for Action Against Anti-Semitism|date=January 25, 2006|publisher= NCSJ|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060209082318/http://ncsj.org/AuxPages/012506MAUP.shtml|accessdate=2006-11-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=ADL Welcomes Ukraine's Strong Condemnation of University Fomenting Anti-Semitism|date=January 25, 2006|publisher=Anti-Defamation League|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060206144956/http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASInt_13/4851_13.htm|accessdate=2006-11-16}}</ref> The Anti-Defamation League describes it as a "University of Hate".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060211183506/http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Semitism_International/maup_ukraine.htm |title=Ukraine University of Hate |publisher=ADL |accessdate=2012-05-06}}</ref> Duke has taught an international relations and a history course at MAUP.<ref>{{cite web|last=Blumenthal|first=Max|title=Republicanizing the Race Card|date=March 23, 2006|publisher=The Nation|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060617095035/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060410/blumenthal|accessdate=2006-11-16}}</ref>

===Stormfront===
In 1995, [[Don Black]] and Chloê Hardin, Duke's ex-wife, founded [[Stormfront]], a prominent online forum for [[white nationalism]], [[white separatism]], [[holocaust denial]], [[Neo-Nazism]], [[hate speech]], [[conspiracy theories]] of an antisemitic tinge, and [[racism]].<ref>[http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/5/143556/393 "RedState, White Supremacy, and Responsibility"], ''[[Daily Kos]]'', December 5, 2005</ref><ref name="FOX">[[Bill O'Reilly]], [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86338,00.html "Circling the Wagons in Georgia"], ''[[Fox News Channel]]'', May 8, 2003</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2001/dtv2001-0023.html |title=WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center: Case No. DTV2001-0023 |publisher= World Intellectual Property Organization |date=January 13, 2002}}</ref> Duke is an active user on Stormfront, where he posts articles from his own website and polls forum members for opinions and questions, in particular during his Internet broadcasts. Duke has worked with Don Black on numerous projects including [[Operation Red Dog]] (the attempted overthrowing of [[Dominica]]'s government) in 1980.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20000303142235/http://manana.com/dominica.htm Captmike works undercover with the US Government to stop the invasion of the Island Nation of Dominica.] manana.com</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030519071411/http://www.canadiancontent.ca/articles/031401reddog.html Operation Red Dog: Canadian neo-nazis were central to the planned invasion of Dominica in 1981] canadiancontent.ca</ref>

===British National Party===
In 2000, [[Nick Griffin]] (then leader of the [[British National Party]] in the [[United Kingdom]]) met with Duke at a seminar with the {{wpl|American Friends of the British National Party|American Friends of the BNP.}}<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20010312173817/www.americabnp.net/april.htm April 2000 meeting]</ref> During this meeting, Griffin proclaimed:
{{quotebox|...instead of talking about racial purity, we talk about identity ... that means basically to use the saleable words, as I say, freedom, security, identity, democracy. Nobody can criticise them. Nobody can come at you and attack you on those ideas. They are saleable.<ref name=gun /><ref name=Indep /><ref name=Pano />}}
This was widely reported in the United Kingdom media, as was the meeting between Duke and Griffin, following electoral successes made by the party in 2009.<ref name=gun>{{cite news|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011171504/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6481475.ece|publisher=''Times Online''|title=White supremacist gunman James W. von Brunn had links to BNP|first=Kaya|last=Burgess|date=12 June 2009|accessdate=12 June 2009 | location=London}}</ref><ref name=Indep>{{cite web|author1=Cahal Milmo|author2=Kevin Rawlinson|title=10 things you should know about the BNP when you watch Question Time tonight|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-bnp-when-you-watch-question-time-tonight-1806874.html|website=independent.co.uk|publisher=The Independent|accessdate=19 January 2015|date=22 October 2009}}</ref><ref name=Pano>{{cite web|title=PANORAMA: UNDER THE SKIN [Transcript]|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/audio_video/programmes/panorama/transcripts/transcript_25_11_01.txt|website=news.bbc.co.uk|publisher=BBC|accessdate=19 January 2015}}</ref>

==Banned from Twitter==
Duke was finally banned from [[Twitter]] in July 2020 after years of posting antisemitic innuendos and conspiracy theories, apparently, because he had posted antisemitic conspiracy theories and misinformation about the [[COVID]] pandemic.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/31/twitter-david-duke-ban/ Twitter permanently bans former KKK leader David Duke: The avowed white supremacist recently tweeted racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories and misinformation about the coronavirus] by Jacob Bogage & Eugene Scott (July 31, 2020, at 7:46 a.m. PDT) ''The Washington Post''.</ref>

==Books and other "works"==
*After several more failed runs for the U.S. Senate, he wrote a book called ''My Awakening''. (Ever notice how narcissistic those Nazi works tend to be? ''Mein Kampf'', ''My Awakening'' ... My, my, my...)

*Duke is also ''purportedly'' the [[author]] of a 1976 [[self-help]] sex manual for women on how to perform [[Oral sex|fellatio]] and [[anal sex]] under the pen-names of James Konrad and Dorothy Vanderbilt,<ref group=note>Seriously, it's even sourced and everything on {{wpl|David Duke#Finders-Keepers|Wikipedia|.}}</ref> and a 1973 street fighting manual for radical black militants, ''African Atto'' under the pen-name of Mohammad X.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131220112038/http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/david_duke/background.html According to the Anti-Defamation League]</ref>

*He holds a Ph.D. from a university in [[Ukraine]], notorious for its antisemitic views,<ref>{{wpa|Interregional Academy of Personnel Management#Controversies}}</ref> writing his doctoral thesis on "Zionism as a Form of Ethnic Supremacism".

*He has an active account on [[Stormfront]], which he uses to big up his own articles. Incidentally, his ex-wife set up the site.

*From 2003 to 2004, he served a prison term for mail fraud (bilking his supporters into giving donations under false pretenses, much of which he spent on his gambling habit) and for filing a false tax return.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/david-duke-arrested-in-germany_n_1119010.html David Duke Arrested In Germany, Ex-Klan Leader Faces Deportation]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041026231140/http://www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_america_updates/individuals/david_duke/duke_update_021218.htm David Duke Pleads Guilty to Fraud and Tax Charges]</ref>

*He has come out in favor of the [[Tea Party]], speaking in April 2010 to tell the world they aren't racist because he says they aren't.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100428233848/http://www.alan.com/2010/04/26/tea-parties-arent-racist-david-duke-says-so/ Tea Parties aren't Racist. David Duke says so.]</ref> Under the delusion that "the 1%" were almost exclusively Jews, he also supported [[Occupy Wall Street]], or, as he put it, Occupy "Zionist" Wall Street. Most people in the Occupy movement tried their best to ignore this.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111029114546/http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/not-helping-david-duke-supports-occupy-wall-street.php Talking Points Memo].</ref>

*He is the author of the book ''Jewish Supremacy'', which basically argues that his white supremacist ideology is actually the ideology of his enemies; isn't that convenient?

*Another piece of literature written by him is ''The Secret Behind Communism'', which sees him buying into every anti-communist claim uncritically all while finding a way to blame all of them on Jews.

==See also==
*[[Richard Spencer]]

==External links==
*[http://www.davidduke.com/ His site]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150822124307/https://www.facebook.com/drdaviddukeFANpage His Facebook feed]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131101033432/https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke His first Twitter feed]
*[https://twitter.com/realdrduke His second Twitter feed]
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Duke His Wikiquote page]
*[http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/david-duke SPLC profile]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20021015134931/http://www.adl.org/opinion/david_duke_review.asp David Duke's ''My Awakening'': A Minor-League ''Mein Kampf''], [[ADL]]
*[https://archive.org/details/foia_National_Assn_Advancement_White_People-HQ-1 FBI files on NAAWP]
*[https://momentmag.com/david-duke-abroad News article about his activities in Europe]

==Notes==
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==References==
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