Bannon proudly boasts that he has turned Breitbart into a platform for the alt-right. (I?m sure Andrew Breitbart is turning over in his grave.) The site himself identifies one of the leading thinkers of the alt-right as Richard Spencer. He recommends Spencer.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-conservatives-guide-to-the-alt-right/
Quote:
?The media empire of the modern-day alternative right coalesced around Richard Spencer?
?In 2010, Spencer founded AlternativeRight.com, which would become a center of alt-right thought.
Alongside other nodes like Steve Sailer?s blog, VDARE and American Renaissance, AlternativeRight.com became a gathering point for an eclectic mix of renegades who objected to the established political consensus in some form or another.?
Spencer and his writers are fans of Dugin.
http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2013/12/transitioning-from-modernity-review-of.html
http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2013/12/transitioning-from-modernity-review-of_30.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/altright/comments/4x3fm2/richard_spencerask_me_anything/
Quote:
?My name is Richard Spencer. I coined the term ?Alternative Right?; I write at RadixJournal.com (and some other places), organize NPI conferences, and edit Washington Summit Publishers and Radix books.?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/postevery...m=.a0b6d8c60b1d
Quote:
?Constitutional conservatives can?t stand the alt-right. Conservatives ? real conservatives ? believe that only a philosophy of limited government, God-given rights and personal responsibility can save the country. And that creed is not bound to race or ethnicity. Broad swaths of the alt-right, by contrast, believe in a creed-free, race-based nationalism, insisting, among other things, that birth on American soil confers superiority. The alt-right sees limited-government constitutionalism as pass?; it holds that only nationalist populism on the basis of shared tribal identity can save the country. It?s a movement shot through with racism and anti-Semitism.?
?As one of its own, Richard Spencer, explained: ?Breitbart has elective affinities with the alt-right, and the alt-right has clearly influenced Breitbart. In this way, Breitbart has acted as a ?gateway? to alt-right ideas and writers.??
Dugin rejects the Enlightenment (the foundation of the Founders? thinking) and declares ?the West? to be the enemy. Spencer writes articles favorable to Dugin, and Bannon favors Spencer.
Now, please note that I do not think this reflects President-elect Trump?s views, although I am a bit disturbed by Donald Jr.?s offhand remark that hsi father believes in ?racehorse theory.? but as I noted before (quoting Morton Blackwell, on of the conservative movement?s best strategists), ?personnel is policy.?
Bannon will most likely try to bring in as many of his ?alt-right? allies as he can, and that will make the new Administration something I don?t think we or Trump intended it to be.
As Morton Blackwell reminds us, ?personnel is policy.?
You have to be careful with whom you stand.
I saw Drudge’s headline about Savage’s rant against Trump’s selection of this man. Can someone tell us (briefly) what his (Savage) beef is/was? Thank you in advance.
Ba?ve been a movement conservative all my life, a constitutionalist. I’ve been involved with Young Americans for Freedom, the Conservative Caucus, Free Republic, and many other conservative organizations. My family was involved in the founding of the Conservative Party.
I am NOT an identitarian or anything else that resembles the likes of Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor, two of the alt-right’s leading lights. (In fact, according to Breitbart, Richard Spencer is the major thinker of the alt-right.) These people are hostile to constitutional conservatives like us.
Now, look at how they describe themselves.
From the alt-right site “American Renaissance”:
“It is a broad, dissident movement that rejects egalitarian orthodoxies. These orthodoxies require us to believe that the sexes are equivalent, that race is meaningless, that all cultures and religions are equally valuable, and that any erotic orientation or identification is healthy.”
(IOW, they do not believe that “all men are created equal.”)
“Human races have been evolving separately for perhaps as long as 100,000 years, and evolution has marked their temperaments and mental abilities just as it has their physical characteristics. Different races have different average IQs, and the evidence is overwhelming that these differences are, to a substantial degree, genetic.”
?The world makes no sense without an understanding of race. Why is black Africa poor? Why is Haiti?populated by the same people but with a completely different history?equally poor? Why do blacks in America, Canada, and Britain?likewise with very different histories?show exactly the same patterns of crime, poverty, illegitimacy, and school failure? Why, on the other hand, are Asians ahead of whites on all these measures? Because race is real.?
“No coherent social policy can be based on egalitarian dogmas about race. That is why everything from education to welfare to housing to policing to immigration policy yields deformed results. If you cannot understand race you cannot understand anything else.?
“Is it harsh to explain black and Hispanic failure in terms of inherent racial differences? Whites must speak in these terms in self defense.?
And it goes on like this. To a long-time constitutional conservative like me, this is repugnant. yet someone like Bannon gives them a forum.
Jared Taylor is a leading racist. He is the editor of the site I quoted above.
From Red State:
“They believe that, if you read Richard Host (sp), if you read Richard Spencer, who leads an alt right think tank, if you actually read the people who created the term, who have been pushing this stuff, the one thing they all agree on is that we need to organize this society on the assumption that white people are genetically superior, or that white culture is inherently superior, and that we should have either state-imposed or culturally-imposed segregation between the races, no race mixing with the lower brown people. And I take them at their word, that that?s the stuff that they believe. And I think rather than poisoning or blurring that distinction, we should take them at their word and say we want nothing to do with any of that.”
“These are not disaffected tea partiers. These are people who we have a fundamental, first principle disagreement with. And any movement that has them in it, doesn?t have me in it, and vice versa.”
Now, here is what Bannon himself wrote about Breitbart.com: “We?re the platform for the alt-right.”
(Interestingly, Bannon is a former banker at Goldman Sachs.)
The alt-right also hates the free market. This is from Breitbart:
“Alt-righters describe establishment conservatives who care more about the free market than preserving western culture, and who are happy to endanger the latter with mass immigration where it serves the purposes of big business, as ‘cuckservatives.’”
(A term I?ve herd around a lot, thrown at good, long-time conservatives.)
Do we want someone so tied to people like this to be in such a prominent role?
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So the same media that told us Hillary was going to win, Trump would never make it through the primaries, that Ryan was an ultra conservative and have been wrong on just about everything is telling us Trump is picking the wrong people? Why should I listen to the people that are wrong 99% of the time over the decisions of a guy that was savvy enough to bring down 2 political dynasties, win a primary season against 16 other career politicians and win the presidency? I have basically stopped believing anything that the media tells me these days unless there is pretty good verification they aren’t just making it up.