“From all I’ve seen, “white supremacists” are a splinter of the “alt-right”
But what is “right wing” about racism? How come we got stuck with it?
And what’s so right-wing about these “white supremacists?” Can’t be their commitment to human liberty, small government, and strict constructionism.
Well, how did hard fascism get planted on the right end of the political spectrum? The Italians labeled their fascist ideology "right-wing" and I guess it stuck. For all that, the argument is still going on.
Because racial supremacy was such a high-profile element of Nazi fascism, supremacists get planted on the far right; not that the Nazis thought of it first, only that they acted upon it to such a demonic extent.
The issue Conservatives face lies in demarcating that racial supremacism has NO PLACE in the ranks of American Constitutional Conservatism. Because of the extent to which the Nazis took their vile notions of racial supremacy, it now matters not at all that an individual is socially conservative, a strict constructionist, advocates for Constitutionally limited government, believes in the sanctity of marriage, believes in right to life -- once you throw "racial supremacist" onto that pile, ALL the rest gets ERADICATED; the individual is marked as a demented, socially radioactive crank, twisted in mind and soul, and not to be listened to about ANYTHING.
Inasmuch as Conservatives want to draw support from as many places as possible, there simply must be a hard delineation drawn that bars admittance of adherents to supremacism. The idea is not simply wrong; it is utterly repugnant on all planes: moral, ethical, social, spiritual and legal.
But that gives the left a serious stack of political poison to work with; all they need do is inject a dozen paid supremacist flaks into the ranks of any Conservative gathering to poison the entire thing. And I think that's what happened at Charlottesville, and I think we'll see that happen elsewhere in the future. I'm certainly expecting it in Phoenix.