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Hill editor: Quick thread about alt right favorite Paul Nehlen's appearance at Bannon / Moore rally
Thread from Will Sommer, campaign editor at The Hill, starts with this tweet, continues down the page:
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Quick thread about alt right favorite Paul Nehlen’s appearance at the Bannon / Moore rally in Alabama last night, and what it says about Bannon’s official attempts to distance himself from the alt right 1/
Since Trump’s win, Bannon has publicly tried to get himself, Breitbart and Trumpism away from the alt right, which is now just another name for white supremacists. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/steve-bannon-racists-in-alt-right-will-be-burned-out-over-time/article/2640601 …
But Nehlen, who made his name by losing the GOP primary to Paul Ryan in 2016 by nearly 70 points and is running against him again, is the closest thing the alt right has to a 2018 candidate. And now he’s stumping with Bannon and Moore!
Nehlen gave a pretty traditional Christian conservative speech at the rally. He spoke ahead of Bannon and former Sheriff David Clarke.
His internet presence is much more extreme. Since losing to Ryan, Nehlen has gone all in on the worst parts of right-wing internet. He's bought into Pizzagate and retweeted praise for the Charlottesville torchlight march.
A few days ago, he went on “Fash the Nation,” an explicitly white supremacist podcast. It’s part of the same network that came up with the notorious (((triple parentheses))) that Twitter anti-Semites use to refer to Jews.
This is a hardcore white supremacist audience. And Nehlen wasn’t on to debate them. He jokingly used “shoah” — a reference to the Holocaust popular with this crowd — several times to describe his Twitter account being suspended.
The white nationalist, pro-Trump users at 4Chan’s /pol/ forum were ecstatic. They couldn’t believe Nehlen was being so obvious about his affiliations with white supremacists — “revealing his power level”
On Gab, the Twitter rival favored by the alt right, Nehlen is an active poster. He helped circulate an image a user created comparing him to Ryan and saying he was “red-pilled” on the “Jewish question.” Nehlen wrote that it flattered him.
So: Bannon and Breitbart say they don't have anything to do with the alt right anymore. But Nehlen has managed to campaign with Bannon for Moore, despite Nehlen's obvious alt right connections.
Since Trump’s win, Bannon has publicly tried to get himself, Breitbart and Trumpism away from the alt right, which is now just another name for white supremacists. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/steve-bannon-racists-in-alt-right-will-be-burned-out-over-time/article/2640601 …
But Nehlen, who made his name by losing the GOP primary to Paul Ryan in 2016 by nearly 70 points and is running against him again, is the closest thing the alt right has to a 2018 candidate. And now he’s stumping with Bannon and Moore!
Nehlen gave a pretty traditional Christian conservative speech at the rally. He spoke ahead of Bannon and former Sheriff David Clarke.
His internet presence is much more extreme. Since losing to Ryan, Nehlen has gone all in on the worst parts of right-wing internet. He's bought into Pizzagate and retweeted praise for the Charlottesville torchlight march.
A few days ago, he went on “Fash the Nation,” an explicitly white supremacist podcast. It’s part of the same network that came up with the notorious (((triple parentheses))) that Twitter anti-Semites use to refer to Jews.
This is a hardcore white supremacist audience. And Nehlen wasn’t on to debate them. He jokingly used “shoah” — a reference to the Holocaust popular with this crowd — several times to describe his Twitter account being suspended.
The white nationalist, pro-Trump users at 4Chan’s /pol/ forum were ecstatic. They couldn’t believe Nehlen was being so obvious about his affiliations with white supremacists — “revealing his power level”
On Gab, the Twitter rival favored by the alt right, Nehlen is an active poster. He helped circulate an image a user created comparing him to Ryan and saying he was “red-pilled” on the “Jewish question.” Nehlen wrote that it flattered him.
So: Bannon and Breitbart say they don't have anything to do with the alt right anymore. But Nehlen has managed to campaign with Bannon for Moore, despite Nehlen's obvious alt right connections.
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