2016 Postmortem
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Prominent white nationalists touted their growing media influence in the wake of Donald Trumps rise to the Republican presidential nomination on a wave of bigoted rhetoric at a September 9 press conference titled What Is The Alt-Right?
The press conference, organized by white nationalist think tank the National Policy Institute (NPI), aimed to explain how the alt-right a movement of fringe modern white supremacists had become a force in American politics in such a short period of time. The racist movement has garnered renewed interest from media outlets in the wake of Hillary Clintons August 25 speech decrying the Trump campaigns cozy relationship with the movement, including the hiring of Breitbart News executive chairman and alt-right leader Stephen Bannon as campaign CEO.
The press conference featured three prominent white nationalist speakers: NPI president Richard Spencer, who coined the term alt-right; Jared Taylor, who publishes the white nationalist online magazine American Renaissance; and Peter Brimelow, who founded the white nationalist anti-immigration site VDare.com.
The press conference came just hours before Clinton told supporters at a fundraiser that half of Trumps supporters belonged to a basket of deplorables people who harbor racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic animus who have been lifted
up by the Republican nominee. Indeed, the white nationalist movement has provided Trump with some of his most fervent supporters and praised him for helping to grow their ranks.
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)A self-defeating proposition.
Pat Buchanan managed to pass himself as respectably "mainstream," even intellectual, for years, disguised by the bland face and words he used on TV, but when more people realized the messages his less respectable followers were taking from him off TV he was rejected.
Ron Paul was another two-faced succeeder with a large white supremacist and nationalists following in and out of the Libertarian Party who, unfortunately for him, became better known for what he was when he ran for president.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)It will be to the alt-right of Fox.