Posted on 08/24/2016 7:20:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There’s no such thing as bad publicity. Yesterday the Hill reported that Hillary Clinton would be giving a big speech Thursday aimed at the so-called alt-right:
Clinton’s campaign announced Tuesday morning that her Reno, Nev., speech would focus on Trump and his aides’ “embrace of the disturbing ‘alt-right’ political philosophy.”
“This ‘alt-right’ brand is embracing extremism and presenting a divisive and dystopian view of America which should concern all Americans, regardless of party,” her campaign said.
I don’t know what Hillary will be saying tomorrow but one thing I’m pretty certain of is that attacking the alt-right isn’t going to lessen their influence. On the contrary, Dave Weigel writes today that some in the movement are actually looking forward to it:
On the alt-right itself, the speech is being welcomed as a sort of coming-out party; alt-right figures are finding their phones and email boxes glowing with new messages, asking to explain who they are and what they think.
That’s the reality here. Hillary Clinton is a candidate for president. By attacking the alt-right she’s elevating them in this election. She’s insuring lots of previously marginal voices will be appearing on cable news to discuss this topic. Hillary openly inviting them to center stage in the national debate.
I don’t think that’s accidental or some kind of miscalculation. On the contrary, I think she wants to elevate those voices for obvious political reasons.
From Hillary’s perspective, there’s really no downside to kicking this particular hornet’s nest. The inevitable response to her comments will only help solidify the idea that the Republican party is now the party of white nationalism, something many party leaders would dispute. Hillary needs to secure a high percentage of the black and Latino vote to get elected and starting this debate will help her do that. Also, her camp has been pushing for more moderate voices in the GOP to denounce Trump. This could accelerate that process as people who are not on the alt-right begin to wonder whether they can remain in a party in which that group has a growing voice. Strategically, politically it’s a smart move for Hillary. I get that.
But I think this could be very bad news for America and I wonder if Clinton’s camp has even paused to think about that at all.
Last year we saw a white racist shoot black church-goers. This summer we’ve seen riots in major cities and racist black radicals murdering white police officers in revenge killings. Racial tension is high. It has spilled over into violence multiple times already.
Trump has been criticized plenty for his tone, for his tweets. That’s fair game and I’ve criticized it myself. But make no mistake, Hillary’s speech tomorrow is going to significantly elevate the alt-right’s status on the national stage. She can pretend she’s trying to take them down all she wants but in reality she’s giving them a gift. This is the kind of national publicity the alt-right could never buy.
No idea. I’ve been reading Voxday for years and now calls himself alt right. Used to be a conservative libertarian. I don’t get it.
True.
Atl-Right = Uber-Reich... Whites, nationalists, christians even!
Neo-Nazi’s are the communists’ internal, fixed, demonic enemies.
Yeah, restoring our Nation’s Borders, rebuilding our Military, restoring our Constitution, not screwing up the Mideast while enabling ISIS and restoring Law and Order are just such wacky Right Wing ideas.
>>”Alt-right? What does that mean?”
Tribalism.
Bad news for anyone associated with it. Problem for Bannon and Breitbart and their promotion of Milo Yiannopoulos.
Google for Milo and alt right:
https://goo.gl/cpt1sl
This was predictable.
>>>We, on this site, are the alt right as well... anybody who isn’t GOPe is alt-right...
Lord, no.
Trump launched a preemptive first strike tonight...
“Hillary is a BIGOT”
Yeah, restoring our Nation’s Borders, rebuilding our Military, restoring our Constitution, not screwing up the Mideast while enabling ISIS and restoring Law and Order are such wacky Right Wing ideas.
Oops
You’re right
Yup.
And my block list on Twitter has ballooned.
Thanks for the link, D-fendr.
Yeah, restoring our Nation’s Borders, rebuilding our Military, restoring our Constitution, not screwing up the Mideast while enabling ISIS and restoring Law and Order are such wacky Right Wing ideas.
VRWC version 2.0 . Getting tired of her idiotic games.
I had never heard of it until Bret Bair did an intire segment on it tonight. He talked as if was a well established label . My guess is by tomorrow it will be established , whatever it means .
It means definitely NOT a RINO, and not afraid to say so.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Most here on FR are behind the times, in the dark, out of the loop, and just ignorant about the alt-right movement. Notice how many here actually think it’s just some imaginary, made-up thing/tactic of the democrats, to smear the Trump movement.
Most here don’t realize how Twitter and the younger generation of right-wingers from 4Chan and Reddit have created a YUGE movement on the internet of red-pilled activists and hacktivists and trolls who JUST DON’T CARE if they’re seen as fascists, haters, Nazis, whatever; they point out the glaring absurdity of young white American country boys being sent overseas to die in the name of diversity, coexistence, tolerance, multiculturalism, anti-racism, equality, feminism, and so on, and how we sacrifice these poor white boys largely on behalf of Israel’s survival — the sheer absurd hypocrisy of forcing our own to renounce ethnostate nationalism for ourselves, while advocating, paying taxes, and even dying so that Jewish people across oceans can PRACTICE ethnostate nationalism! We even sacrifice our young men so that Muslims can form new theocracies(Islam was made the supreme law in the new constitutions of Iraq and Afghanistan, with our help)!
Most here on FR are nothing of the alt-right sort; Freepers are mostly those denounced by alt-right types as boilerplate tools of conventional cuckservatism, always accepting the Left’s egalitarian premises of equal opportunity and so forth, always allowing things to constantly slide leftward year after year.
Well done.
>>”Most here on FR are nothing of the alt-right sort”
Thank God.
Bingo!!!
Aahhhh thx for the explanation, I wasn’t clear on what Alt-right was supposed to be except that it is a big smear term when used by the left.
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