Posted on 02/24/2017 3:27:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
It's not exactly William Buckley challenging conservatives to marginalize the John Birch Society in the 1960s, but the leadership of the American Conservative Union, sponsors of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), finally acted to clear the meeting of some of the more odious appendages of the so-called alt-right by kicking out one of its recognized leaders, Richard Spencer.
Spencer, a white nationalist and anti-Semite, was denounced from the main stage of CPAC by the executive director of the ACU, Dan Schneider. After being cornered by the press, where the alt-right bomb-thrower tossed a few grenades at conservatives, he was asked to leave the premises by conference staff.
Washington Post:
"People want to talk to me," Spencer told NBC News from outside the Gaylord National Harbor complex. "They don't want to talk to these boring conservatives. They want to learn about ideas whose time has come, not whose time has passed."
Spencer, who has frequently attended CPAC without incident, became a minor media sensation during and after the 2016 election. One of the first speeches at this year's conference challenged the media to stop referring to the alt-right as conservative.
"There is a sinister organization that is trying to worm its way into our ranks," said Dan Schneider, the executive director of the American Conservative Union, which runs CPAC. "We must not be deceived by [a] hateful, left-wing fascist group."
There was an irony to Spencer's expulsion on the same day the conference featured White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon, the former CEO of Breitbart News, who once called the site "the platform for the alt
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Neo-Nazis not welcome in the conservative movement.
Good riddance.
Good: he’s a first class idiot.
Amen to that.
Maybe I’m a bit off base saying this, but I never bought into the alt-Right idea.
We’re Conservatives and considered on the Right as opposed to the Leftists.
For the life of me, I didn’t see any reason whatsoever to change any of that.
Why change our titles, if there’s no change in dogma? Of course there would be no need to.
Color me a Conservative who believes in the Right vs the Left, and that’s it.
alt-Exit...
Honestly, I don’t even know what alt-right means. I thought it was either something Hillary’s people cooked up or a keyboard command.
Yes. It. Is.
GOOD!!!!
I’ve always subscribed to this - it’s been around for at least 15 years..
http://www.laissez-fairerepublic.com/upvsdown.htm
“:^)
It was a phrase a new site or movement adopted. I never found it appealing because it inferred Conservative / Right was outdated.
Ahhh, no.
Wasn’t CPAC anti-Trump initially?
pamela will not be happy.....
“President Trump encouraged people like Spencer throughout the campaign by not denouncing him and his noxious ideas. Trump has no allegiance to conservatism and thus felt perfectly at ease using the racists and anti-Semites to advance the cause of victory.”
How has merde like this crept onto American Thinker?
I think alt-right was intended to differentiate the control the borders and quit interfering abroad conservatives with the empire building neo-cons.
But the left is hijacking it so they can continue to name call. They want to rename conservatism because it is associated with Ronald Reagan and William Buckley (who famously kicked the Bircher’s out for being bigoted whackdoodles).
By renaming the conservative movement they hope to remove the positive associations from history so they can tar and feather us with whatever crap they make up.
Let’s not let them do this.
Interesting take. I have no problem with that definition either.
I’d rather see it incorporated along with other metrics like what we already have for continuity’s sake.
People understand Leftist vs Right or Conservative right now.
Bring this thought in as an additional key, helping to focus on the problems with big government.
I’d like to see about 10-15% of the federal government remaining after Trump/Pence are done.
Spencer is not alt-right, he is alt-retard.
Good.
Wouldn’t surprise me if he were a CIA setup anyway.
That’s why the term should be dropped and replaced with more precise terms for its various perceived meanings.
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