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/
“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.”
(Isn’t VDARE banned here at FR? With good reason.)
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/
“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.”
“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 passé; 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.’”
(BTW, Bannon is an ex-Goldman Sachs banker.)
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.
You have to be careful with whom you stand.
Bump for later
Wow, that was some twisted garbage to try to smear Bannon. It made no sense whatsoever because you are straining so hard to try to associate Bannon with something bad. I don’t know what your problem is, but the fact of the matter is that Bannon is perhaps the #1 reason why Trump won the election. Bannon kept him on his populist, conservative message. When others might have told Trump to temper or moderate his approach, Bannon’s approach was to stay focused on the issues and double down on them. No wonder he appealed to Trump. That is EXACTLY what and who we need in the White House advising President Trump.
Richard Spencer is among the tens of millions of Americans who are excited about Donald Trump’s coming presidency. The 38-year-old white nationalist heads a small organization, called the National Policy Institute, and believes people of different skin color are inherently different, hate each other and should live separately
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Al Letson: So Donald Trump is your perfect candidate.
Richard Spencer:
Yes. Look, again, I don't think Donald Trump is me. I don't think Donald Trump is alt-right.
I don't think Donald Trump is an identitarian as I would use that term. I think Donald Trump is a kind of first step towards this. He's the first time that we've seen a genuinely if, you could say incomplete, politician who's fighting for European identity politics in North America. This is the first time we've seen it.