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What is Alt-Right?

What is Alt-Right? I consume a lot of media (TV & Internet) and I don't remember hearing that term prior to 8-24-16. I have done some looking since and it sounds like the latest Left Wing Propaganda to slander Right leaning Libertarians.

Someone please educate me.

I've only just popped in on this thread. So, maybe the content of my post has already been brought up, besides the fact it seems that discussion has gotten off-topic.

The "Alt-right" is of Breitbart, wholly and completely, by way of their own manifesto:

An Establishment Conservative's Guide To The Alt-Right - Breitbart

That the far-right should blame the conjugation of Alt-right on the left is totally, and tactically, Alt-right.
 
What is Alt-Right? I consume a lot of media (TV & Internet) and I don't remember hearing that term prior to 8-24-16. I have done some looking since and it sounds like the latest Left Wing Propaganda to slander Right leaning Libertarians.

Someone please educate me.


Yeah, that must be it: the mean old liberals victimizing the defenseless conservatives.
 
The Alt-Right is all about white racial identity.

The movement (although not the name) has been around since before the US was a nation, but it is only getting a lot of attention during this election because Donald Trump is so blatantly pandering to it.
 
I would say that the alt right consists of those who are on the right politically, but who do not believe that they benefit from the pro business policies of the Republican Party. For the most part they are white male blue collar workers. Most are worse off than economically than they were in 2000, and worse off than their fathers were at their ages. They are angry about it, but they choose to direct their anger at non whites, and sometimes Jews, rather than wealthy Americans who are white Gentiles.

For the alt right the golden era of the United States was the period of time from the end of the Second World War to the assassination of John Kennedy. They regret the civil rights legislation, the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, and NAFTA.

The period of time from 1945 to 1963 really was a golden era for the white working class. A high percentage of them belonged to labor unions. They got yearly pay checks every year that beat inflation. They had generous benefits at work.

What many do not understand is that they owed this to the Democratic Party. Before the New Deal factory workers worked long hours for low pay in dangerous working conditions.

White blue collars thought Ronald Reagan would restore their golden era. He did not. If Donald Trump is elected president he will not either.

Nevertheless, I am sympathetic to most of those who identify with the alt right. Immigrants compete for jobs and depress wages. NAFTA has made it easier for manufacturers to close factories and move production to low wage countries. Many blacks have not responded well to the opportunities opened to them by the civil rights legislation. Blacks have a crime rate that is nearly eight times the white rate. White blue collar workers often live and work in or near black neighborhoods. Black crime threatens them more than it does affluent white liberals who live and work in low crime areas.
 
What is Alt-Right? I consume a lot of media (TV & Internet) and I don't remember hearing that term prior to 8-24-16. I have done some looking since and it sounds like the latest Left Wing Propaganda to slander Right leaning Libertarians.

Someone please educate me.

The alt right is not libertarian, but authoritarian. The alt right is opposed to free trade and immigration. Those on the alt right want a strong man to take over and fix things for them.
 
I have taken it as the latest left-wing propaganda to slander anti-establishment conservatives, and, Trump supporters.

In other words, it's an utterly meaningless term. ;)


Alt-right is an extreme right-wing developed movement. The movement was already there, IMO. But, it needed a name and definition. So, Breitbart, an extreme right-wing news source, took care of that and gave it meaning:

An Establishment Conservative's Guide To The Alt-Right - Breitbart

Read it and weep.



An Establishment Conservative's Guide To The Alt-Right - Breitbart
 
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I have taken it as the latest left-wing propaganda to slander anti-establishment conservatives, and, Trump supporters.

In other words, it's an utterly meaningless term. ;)

Whatever its origins, its catching on, and its just fun to say lol. Its the flip side to the word libbo.
 
THe alt-Right--Republicans in name only.
 
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