| − | 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 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/> |