Posted on 03/30/2016 4:11:45 PM PDT by all the best
A specter is haunting the dinner parties, fundraisers and think-tanks of the Establishment: the specter of the “alternative right.” Young, creative and eager to commit secular heresies, they have become public enemy number one to beltway conservatives — more hated, even, than Democrats or loopy progressives.
The alternative right, more commonly known as the alt-right, is an amorphous movement. Some — mostly Establishment types — insist it’s little more than a vehicle for the worst dregs of human society: anti-Semites, white supremacists, and other members of the Stormfront set. They’re wrong.
Previously an obscure subculture, the alt-right burst onto the national political scene in 2015. Although initially small in number, the alt-right has a youthful energy and jarring, taboo-defying rhetoric that have boosted its membership and made it impossible to ignore.
It has already triggered a string of fearful op-eds and hit pieces from both Left and Right: Lefties dismiss it as racist, while the conservative press, always desperate to avoid charges of bigotry from the Left, has thrown these young readers and voters to the wolves as well.
National Review attacked them as bitter members of the white working-class who worship “father-Führer” Donald Trump. Betsy Woodruff of The Daily Beast attacked Rush Limbaugh for sympathising with the “white supremacist alt-right.” BuzzFeed begrudgingly acknowledged that the movement has a “great feel for how the internet works,” while simultaneously accusing them of targeting “blacks, Jews, women, Latinos and Muslims.”
The amount of column inches generated by the alt-right is a testament to their cultural punch. But so far, no one has really been able to explain the movement’s appeal and reach without desperate caveats and virtue-signalling to readers.
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Bump for a possibly very interesting thread.
Thanks for posting this.
… they have become public enemy number one to beltway conservatives …Oxymoronic phrase.
The rice bowl conservatives such as the feckless losers at NR and fops like George Will have a lot to lose, but mind you they will lose, FAILURE THEATER days are numbered.
The Left’s iron grip on moral superiority as buttressed by the FailCons is going to be shattered.
An interesting read. One of the more thoughtful analysis I have read recently
alt-right very catchy new right wing movement that seperate ourselves from the mark levins, rush limbaugh, gop-e, glenn beck
The naming of Julius Evola is a bit bothersome. He started out as a Traditionalist, like the Frenchman Rene Guenon, but ended up somewhere else. Guenon eventually converted to Islam, and Evola ended up a little too close to Mussolini and his Fascist movement.
I was Alt-Right before it was cool.
Thanks. That’s a keeper.
Interesting.
Bump
I think I was, too, but not totally sure.
I am still officially a registered Dem, though.
Good article.
Thanks for posting. Very interesting. It added a ton to my reading list
Now I can label myself as a Natural Conservative.
Guess I’ll sleep better.
Long read and I’m about two thirds into it. It is a very fascinating read. Thanks for the post. BTTT.
This article is setting of a nuclear reaction in the twitterverse. I’m wondering seriously if these people even read the article.
Our generals have traded their combat boots for toe shoes, the jihadists are coming at us, and we’re just supposed to stand there?!
>>>The naming of Julius Evola is a bit bothersome.
As is the naming of Richard Spencer.
And this:
>>Liberal democracy, they argued, had no better a historical track record than monarchy, while egalitarianism flew in the face of every piece of research on hereditary intelligence. Asking people to see each other as human beings rather than members of a demographic in-group, meanwhile, ignored every piece of research on tribal psychology.
Is quite anti-American, anti-Declaration of Independence.. anti.. well everything America was based upon.
I don’t see how one can read it as other than racism. It seems to oppose tribalism by being tribal.
This philosophy may be alternative, it may be right wing, but it is not conservative, not in the sense of the American Conservative Movement.
Good point.
>>>It’s always good to expand one’s horizons.
Very true.
Google: “Richard Spencer” “Jared Taylor” “White racial consciousness”
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