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'''Peter Benedict Gemma, Jr.''' (born September 13, 1950), is a free-lance writer and [[conservative]] political activist originally from [[Providence]], [[Rhode Island]], currently based in Sarasota, [[Florida]]. He has written for such publications as ''[[USA Today]]'', ''[[Human Events]]'' (a national weekly newspaper, since a [[website]]), ''The Washington Examiner'', ''Military History'', ''Quarterly Review'' of [[Great Britain]], and ''The Daily Caller''.  

'''Peter Benedict Gemma, Jr.''' (born September 13, 1950), is a free-lance writer and [[conservative]] political activist originally from [[Providence]], [[Rhode Island]], currently based in Sarasota, [[Florida]]. He has written for such publications as ''[[USA Today]]'', ''[[Human Events]]'' (a national weekly newspaper, since a [[website]]), ''The Washington Examiner'', ''Military History'', ''Quarterly Review'' of [[Great Britain]], and ''The Daily Caller''.  

His 2006 book, ''Shots Fired: Sam Francis on America’s Culture War,'' published by the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation of Vienna, [[Virginia]], is an edited study of the late [[paleoconservative]] columnist, Samuel T. Francis, with foreword by [[Pat Buchanan]] and afterword by [[Joseph Sobran]], two of Gemma's mentors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/author/peter-gemma/|title=About Peter Gemma|publisher=''Independent Political Report''|accessdate=May 20, 2016}}</ref> He has also worked for ''The Political Cesspool'', a weekly  [[radio]] talk show.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/search/people/Peter-B-Gemma/Sarasota-FL|title=Peter B. Gemma|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=May 20, 2016}}</ref>

His 2006 book, ''Shots Fired: Sam Francis on America’s Culture War,'' published by the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation of Vienna, [[Virginia]], is an edited study of the late [[paleoconservative]] columnist, Samuel T. Francis, with foreword by [[Pat Buchanan]] and afterword by [[Joseph Sobran]], two of Gemma's mentors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/author/peter-gemma/|title=About Peter Gemma|publisher=''Independent Political Report''|accessdate=May 20, 2016}}</ref> He has also worked for ''The Political Cesspool,'' a weekly  [[radio]] talk show.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/search/people/Peter-B-Gemma/Sarasota-FL|title=Peter B. Gemma|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=May 20, 2016}}</ref>

==Background==

==Background==

===Constitution Party===

===Constitution Party===

In 2016, Gemma confirmed on Facebook that he would not support Donald Trump for the presidency against [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] though Trump has secured tacit backing of Pat Buchanan,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/05/05/476844409/pat-buchanan-on-why-he-shares-trump-s-ideas-on-foreign-policy|title=Pat Buchanan On Why He Shares Trump's Ideas On Foreign Policy|date=May 5, 2016|publisher=[[National Public Radio]]|accessdate=May 20, 2016}}</ref> whom Trump had opposed in 2000, when Buchanan was the Reform Party nominee. In 2014, Gemma was listed as a member of the national executive committee of the Constitution Party, founded in 1992 as the U.S. Taxpayers Party by the late [[Howard Phillips]] following Buchanan's failure to dislodge the senior Bush from the presidential nomination. In this capacity, Gemma published an essay critical of the [[Neoconservatism|neocons]] who have largely set foreign policy for recent Republican administrations seen as unwise and provocative by paleoconservatives.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.constitutionparty.com/neocon-policies-rejected-by-public/|title=Neocon Policies Rejected by Public: Poll Shows Big Discontent|date=June 12, 2014|publisher=[[Constitution Party (United States)|Constitution Party]]|accessdate=May 20, 2016}}</ref> Morris Dee's liberal interest group, the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] of [[Montgomery]], [[Alabama]], placed Gemma on its "hatewatch" and called him a "racist", a "white nationalist", an "anti-Semite",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2013/09/16/longtime-racist-joins-constitution-party%E2%80%99s-executive-committee|title=Longtime Racist Joins Constitution Party’s Executive Committee|date=September 13, 2013|publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]|accessdate=May 21, 2016}}</ref> and a "veteran agitator."<ref name=shotsfired/> 

In 2016, Gemma confirmed on Facebook that he would not support Donald Trump for the presidency against [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] though Trump secured tacit backing of Pat Buchanan,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/05/05/476844409/pat-buchanan-on-why-he-shares-trump-s-ideas-on-foreign-policy|title=Pat Buchanan On Why He Shares Trump's Ideas On Foreign Policy|date=May 5, 2016|publisher=[[National Public Radio]]|accessdate=May 20, 2016}}</ref> whom Trump had opposed in 2000, when Buchanan was the Reform Party nominee. In 2014, Gemma was listed as a member of the national executive committee of the Constitution Party, founded in 1992 as the U.S. Taxpayers Party by the late [[Howard Phillips]] following Buchanan's failure to dislodge the senior Bush from the presidential nomination. In this capacity, Gemma published an essay critical of the [[Neoconservatism|neocons]] who have largely set foreign policy for recent Republican administrations seen as unwise and provocative by paleoconservatives.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.constitutionparty.com/neocon-policies-rejected-by-public/|title=Neocon Policies Rejected by Public: Poll Shows Big Discontent|date=June 12, 2014|publisher=[[Constitution Party (United States)|Constitution Party]]|accessdate=May 20, 2016}}</ref> Morris Dee's liberal interest group, the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] of [[Montgomery]], [[Alabama]], placed Gemma on its "hatewatch" and called him a "racist", a "white nationalist", an "anti-Semite",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2013/09/16/longtime-racist-joins-constitution-party%E2%80%99s-executive-committee|title=Longtime Racist Joins Constitution Party’s Executive Committee|date=September 13, 2013|publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]|accessdate=May 21, 2016}}</ref> and a "veteran agitator."<ref name=shotsfired/> 

===Current interest===

===Current interest===

Gemma is writing a book on southern politics from 1956 to 1976, the period when racial segregation was ended through federal laws and judicial edicts. The project began as a [[biography]] of the late U.S. Representative [[John Rarick]] of [[Louisiana]]'d 6th congressional district, who ran for governor in 1967 and was in 1980 the nominee in eight states of the American Independent Party.<ref name=shotsfired>Peter B. Gemma, ''Shots Fired: Sam Francis on America's Culture War'' (Vienna, Virginia: Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation, 2006), p. 330.</ref> Gemma will instead focus on various state politicians then in office, some of whom were defeated for their stands supporting segregation (Albert Watson of South Carolina's 2nd congressional district), others of whom switched sides to embrace [[civil rights]] ([[George Wallace]] of [[Alabama]] and [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]] of Louisiana), and still others who retired from the failed fight to preserve segregation (Orval Faubus of [[Arkansas]]).<ref name=readings/>

Gemma is writing a book on southern politics from 1956 to 1976, the period when racial segregation was ended through federal laws and judicial edicts. The project began as a [[biography]] of the late U.S. Representative [[John Rarick]] of [[Louisiana]]'d 6th congressional district, who ran for governor in 1967 and was in 1980 the nominee in eight states of the American Independent Party.<ref name=shotsfired>Peter B. Gemma, ''Shots Fired: Sam Francis on America's Culture War'' (Vienna, Virginia: Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation, 2006), p. 330.</ref> Gemma will instead focus on various state politicians then in office, some of whom were defeated for their stands supporting segregation ([[Albert Watson]] of South Carolina's 2nd congressional district), others of whom switched sides to embrace [[civil rights]] ([[George Wallace]] of [[Alabama]] and [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]] of Louisiana), and still others who retired from the failed fight to preserve segregation ([[Orval Faubus]] of [[Arkansas]]).<ref name=readings/>

==References==

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