It’s easy to not take the alt-right seriously because their views are so outlandish. But that’s Trump. He wallows in the outlandish.
Trump has pandered to the alt-right movement from the very beginnings of his presidential run and recently formalized the connection when he hired Steve Bannon to run his campaign. Until taking a leave of absence to work with Trump, Bannon was chief executive of Breitbart News, a popular news and opinion website that he personally transformed from conservative anti-establishment into alt-right, white nationalist advocacy over the past several years.
Clinton’s speech yesterday was an attempt to isolate Trump from the Republican Party by linking him to far-right, white supremacists and she lumped the alt-right into the same generic pot. But the alt-right has their own distinct brand of crazy.
Summary of alt-nuts in a nutshell: they trend younger than other white supremacy factions, which helps explain their major distinguishing feature: they have given up on democracy. They acknowledge demographic trends and see their future as forever diminished if free elections are allowed to continue. So they dream of dictatorship by CEO, a technocratic authoritarian, and Trump is their flawed savior (they recognize his ordinary intellect), but if Trump were able to win in November, they actually hope he will institute martial law, and thereby end democracy before the more melanin-enabled reach a tipping point of power in deciding national elections.
I really hate to see intelligent folks lathered in rhetoric of this sort. The impulse to assume one's views are inherently superior is not isolated to the po white uneducated lower middle class trailer trash, yo.
There is a reaction some people have when, say, a white middle class working young mother is sitting in the pediatrician's office worrying about how she will pay the bills while melanin-enhanced welfare=supported women legal and illegal are having their bills paid for by the government.
The status quo you folks are holding forth as enlightened is actually putting white folks in isolation as the only unprotected class of people who don't have a security net. If you had the character to be consistent in your principles you would immediately start to demand equality under the law for whites.
I recognize political exploitation of "melanin-enhanced+ folks as racism at it finest.
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