Alt Right? Just Another Word For Mainstream Republicans

[UCmeNdc]

If you've noticed in the last couple weeks, the phrase alt-right seems to be popping up everywhere in analyses about Donald Trump and his supporters. Essentially what this alt-right group is is bloggers, pundits, other kinds of really radicalized hate-filled, potentially white nationalist Republicans who've come out of the closet in support of Donald Trump. They no longer feel like they have to hide their beliefs. They can be open about it because somebody like Donald Trump is leading the way with all of his hate.

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/08/alt-right-just-another-word-mainstream

[Hortensis]

1. Nah. These are just the latest iteration of John Birchers, which

itself is/was just another iteration of a type of strong social-right anxiety always among us. These people really don't do change and diversity well.

Note that, though the John Birch Society is still very much with us, it's far too well known for exactly what it is for "respectable" social conservatives to join. So after the 2008 election, that year's anti-Obama iteration grandiosely called formed as The Tea Party (with a great deal of help from the Kochs' money and hired operatives, of course).

But, hey, a social-right nationalist, racist, xenophobic, fascism-prone, conspiracy-prone group by any other name is still just a bunch of birchers.

That the current "alt-right" birchers' are computer literate and wear the "right" style of sunglasses change nothing. Nor do the facts that this younger group is less religious (just typical for the age), wouldn't be caught dead in grandpa's polyester blends, and dismisses grandpa's anti-commie conspiracy hysteria as mere delusion (they know the government's already been taken over by evil forces from within).

In any case, that this current younger iteration of the same-old is all excited to be getting national attention is very indicative of how politically weak they normally are. Like those left-wing extremists who briefly imagined they were going to take over and purge the Democratic Party of Democrats, they're just having what they think is their moment.

[uponit7771]

2. +1, the M$M is acting as if there's no such thing as the GOP "Southern Strategy" which baited these

... kinds of idiots for votes

[meow2u3]

3. "Alt-right" = repukes who've scrapped the dog whistles

and gone unfilitered bigot, saying out loud what they've been whispering among themselves in private for decades.

[Cosmocat]

4. Except

These assholes have been so brainwashed by republican victimization engendering they genuinely believe WE are the REAL racists.

[meow2u3]

5. No. They're just whining about being ostracized

for being the un-American racists they are. They just desperate to make their antebellum views of society socially acceptable, which they'll never be unless Americans vote to trade in democracy for a totalitarian hellhole.