I tend to avoid using the term since I really have no clue what exactly it is. Can't use a phrase properly if you do not know what it means. SO I ask the simple question, what is alt-right? I really only want the opinions of people who identify as alt-right, or at least are Trump supporters or conservative or republican. And please, please, please do not Godwin this thread any one. One thread where no one is called that group would be really nice.
Note: I am not looking to argue or debate with this thread, so much as learn, and give people a chance to explain, hopefully without things going to badly to hell.
There is some debate, regardless of what people like Spencer et all claim, about the origin of the term Alt Right.
Originally and broadly speaking, they were a break away from typical conservatism expressed by the Republican party.
Again, generally speaking, they were civic nationalists, non or (sometimes) anti religious, non interventionist, sometimes to often opposed to free trade and most were indifferent to supportive of LGBT issues.
It was used as a broad basket term of the new millennial right.
Now I'm not trying to be all anti Hillary, but she was the person who brought the term to mainstream and with that the accusations that it was a tag for people who were racists/neo nazis.
Yes there were people of that stripe who used the tag but given how it was rather informal, that's not surprising.
After that event, the non supremacists swapped to using the terms "New Right" and "Alt Lite."
An example of these people would be Gavin McInnes and Jack Posobiec, although a lot of people still call them alt right as a slur/to discredit them.
Alt right is now either, white nationalists (who want an ethnostate but claim to be not racist) and white supremacists.
You can shoe horn the KKK into there, but I don't think they actually fit in the "alt right" because their other political views are poorly defined.
