WTF? Former Sanders spokesperson to speak at Boston alt.right rally.

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8. I don't think she was

A high ranking campaign official. Social media 'star', originally anarchist, then Bernie, libertarian, white nationalist...

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37507542
Fairbanks says her conversion came about fairly recently. She began 2016 as a supporter of Clinton's main rival within the Democratic Party, socialist candidate Bernie Sanders. As Clinton progressed towards the party nomination, she says, she grew increasingly frustrated with the Democrats. But what really shifted her political outlook, she says, was the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub in June by a man who pledged allegiance to Islamic State.

"I thought I was going to vote for [Green Party candidate] Jill Stein. But I think she's wacky and too over the top to appeal to a mainstream audience," she told BBC Trending.

"Then Orlando happened, and the son of one of my mom's really good friends was shot there. I heard this horrific story, and everyone's like 'blame guns', and I was like, 'no, we need to blame terrorism'. I was just offended. Then I started to look more seriously at Trump, and at people who have been pushing censorship on the left."

At first her support was based on her anti-Clinton feelings, and she also cited foreign policy and free trade as key issues. Eventually, Fairbanks says, she warmed to Trump in his own right.