Again, on this point specifically, the book Rising Out of Hatred about Derek Black, who is related to David Duke, talks about this. The racism of America and white people was clear to white supremacists before, during, and after the Obama years. In the book, they note Romney’s support by white people as a sign of white America’s continued and enhanced racism. The web traffic of white supremacist sites spiked during the Obama years. The Tea Party was proof. All that said to white supremacists that white America had not changed; racist America was the same and worse.