The original Mother Jones story also had this telling quote from Johnson. He told reporter Josh Harkinson:

For many, many years, when I would say these things, other white people would call me names: “Oh, you’re a hatemonger, you’re a Nazi, you’re like Hitler.” Now they come in and say, “Oh, you’re like Donald Trump.”

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