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My ride companion, The Times’ senior editor for video Mark Potts, remarked that it felt like going up to heaven.

Kolankiewicz took a job with Roy Beck, the Tanton protégé and former Washington editor of The Social Contract, who went on to found a slightly less strident “immigration reform” organization called NumbersUSA.

I’d come across a guy named Mike Mahoney, a 20-something rising star in white nationalist circles who worked for Breitbart News and accompanied Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart’s firebrand tech editor, on his speaking tours.

Guest: Sam Adams, senior editor and writer for Slate.

Mary Harris is the host and managing editor of What Next, Slate's new daily news podcast.