This may be his goal, in the sense that even if he loses the election, he wants to encourage support from that subset for the purpose of launching a new media venture:
Trump’s real endgame: A white nationalist media empire?
Has Donald Trump given up on winning the White House and “pivoted” (this might be his real pivot) to a full-blown effort to build a national following that will outlast the election, perhaps allowing him to establish a media empire with him at the helm — one that caters, at least to some degree, to a white nationalist or “alt-right” audience? Was that his plan all along?
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Now, admittedly, all of this is still speculative. And I hesitate to ascribe grand and clever schemes to Trump, because the more prosaic reality could be simply that he is making all of this up as he goes along. But this possibility is worth taking seriously, if only because it could have untold longer term consequences.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...=.642fe168406b
As the article states, this is all speculation, but I definitely see it as a possibility.