![]() In December 1988, he became a Republican and claimed to have become a born-again Christian, while nominally renouncing antisemitism and racism. After failing to gain any traction within the Democratic Party, Duke left and successfully gained the presidential nomination of the minor Populist Party. ĭuke unsuccessfully stood as Democratic candidate for state legislature during the 1970s and 1980s, culminating in his campaign for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination. In 2013, the Anti-Defamation League described Duke as "perhaps America's most well-known racist and anti-Semite". His politics and writings are largely devoted to promoting conspiracy theories about Jews, such as Holocaust denial and Jewish control of academia, the press, and the financial system. ![]() ![]() From 1989 to 1992, he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for the Republican Party. David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American white supremacist, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. ![]()
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