David Duke Politician

David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American White nationalist, White separatist, Antisemite, Holocaust Denier, conspiracy theorist, far-right politician, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and a political writer. A former one-term Republican Louisiana State Representative, he was a candidate in the Democratic presidential primaries in 1988 and the Republican presidential primaries in 1992. Duke unsuccessfully ran for the Louisiana State Senate, United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, and Governor of Louisiana. Duke is a felon, pleading guilty to defrauding supporters by falsely claiming to have no money and in danger of losing his home in order to solicit emergency donations; at the time, Duke was financially secure, and used the donations for recreational gambling.Duke describes himself as a "racial realist", asserting that "all people have a basic human right to preserve their own heritage." An advocate of antisemitic conspiracy theories, Duke speaks against what he considers to be Jewish control of the Federal Reserve, the federal government and the media. Duke supports the preservation of what he labels Western culture and traditionalist Christian "family values", Constitutionalism, abolition of the Internal Revenue Service, voluntary racial segregation, anti-Communism and white separatism, He opposes what he considers to be "promotion of homosexuality" by Jews.The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Duke as "the most recognizable figure on the American radical right" and "a neo-Nazi". His views are characterized by conspiracy theories, racism, antisemitism, and Holocaust denial.