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Certainly for alt-right, a term which is a smear, a perjorative, used in the media. It is along the same lines as homophobia, white nationalist, Christian nationalist, etc., an attempt to slam natural impulses of sane people.
It is irritating to see conservatives pick up the lingo of the MSM and parrot it like it is legitimate.
Macron is a sick little fish.
He shook hands with Trump once and left Trump’s hand red and bruised. He evidently was trying to make Trump kneel, and probably exercised his grip to ready for the chance.
Trump did not kneel, which sometimes is the normal response to that kind of extremely painful ambush.
You have to go back to the 1950s-1960s era when there arose the modern conservative movement, led by William Buckley. His movement worked to shut out various dissidents, such as Objectivists, Birchers, Robert Taft type isolationists, and white separatists. The collection of magazines, think tanks, and broadcasters that were part of that movement can be described as Conservatism, Inc. They were the dominant voices on the Right from Eisenhower's time to that of Trump's first term. This movement also welcomed former liberals who were anti-Communist and were repulsed by the leftward movement of the Democratic Party. This group, called neoconservatives, accelerated Conservatism, Inc.'s drift from Constitutionalism and toward advocacy of continuous intervention worldwide. By 1981, the neoconservative movement had sufficient power to have Reagan replace Mel Bradford, an old school conservative, with the neoconservative William Bennett as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Yet the right wing dissidents never vanished. They found homes in places like Pat Buchanan's magazine, The American Conservative, Taki's Magazine, the Rockwell Rothbard Report, and the remnants of the John Birch Society. The rise of the Internet gave them a new lease on life. While Buckley's impact declined toward the end of his life, talk radio, epitomized by Rush Limbaugh, became a dominant force on the Right and was largely the territory of Conservatism, Inc.
The collapse of Conservatism, Inc., as the dominant force on the Right involved several factors. The first was the rise of Donald Trump, who initially was criticized by many conservative talkers, including Glenn Beck and Mark Levin. Conservatism, Inc., had in the past told conservatives to "hold their noses" and vote for a string of moderates, from Richard Nixon to Mitt Romney. Trump came from outside the Conservatism, Inc., network and was more a populist in the Ross Perot mold. The second was the COVID crisis and the subsequent attempts to mandate the "vaccines", which involved massive overreach by Federal and state governments, including Trump himself. The third involved the events of 2020-21, including the George Floyd riots and the weak response to the rioting, contrasted with the gaslighting involved in the 2020 electoral steal and the Soviet style treatment of January 6th demonstrators.
Conservatism, Inc., did not present effective answers to the the crises of 2020-21. Additionally, Rush Limbaugh died in February 2021. The Internet censorship by Big Tech had the opposite effect, the movement of many conservatives to alternative media, such as Truth Social, Rumble, Bitchute, etc. Alex Jones and others who were outside the Overton Window found new, larger audiences than in the past. People once associated with Conservatism, Inc., such as Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, left the reservation.