Hillary Clinton to give speech tomorrow on the ‘Alt-Right’ and Trumps embracing of it.
“Alt-right is not something Trump created. It’s something he tapped into,” said David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader and Louisiana state lawmaker who said his current U.S. Senate bid was inspired by Mr. Trump and the rise of the alt-right.
The GOP nominee’s “America first” agenda reflects some of the alt-right’s core beliefs in limiting U.S. intervention in overseas military conflicts and targeting illegal immigration and free trade as economic and security perils.
The alt-right is characterized by mostly young, white men active on social media who tag mainstream Republicans as “cuckservatives,” favor memes featuring a green frog with Nazi insignia, and troll Jewish media figures online by putting three sets of parentheses around their names. Campaigns have been organized around hashtags such as #WhiteGenocide to perpetrate the idea that white people are being eradicated.
“The Trump campaign has been dog whistling all the way and said a whole host of things that go to the core of the alt-right movement,” said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, another civil-rights group.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/alt-right-enters-the-political-limelight-1472081850
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a bad idea because right now it is under the radar and if Hillary talks about it more people will become aware of it and want to join.
