I wouldn’t even identify TEA Party members as “alt-right”.
Apart from the Pauls (Ron and his son) who are Libertarians running until the Republican Party (and often taking outrage at the GOP), I can’t think of many candidates put up by the TEA Party who made it to office who weren’t conservative Republicans.
TEA Party figures may have been outside of the Rockefeller Country Club wing of the RINO Party but they held core values of the “generation Reagan” Republican ideal.
And TEA Party rallies were peaceful family friendly affairs.
There are Libertarians in the “alt-right”. There are also Reform Party people in the so-called “alt-right”. Was Ross Pee-rot a right winger? Was Gov. Jesse The Meathead Ventura a right winger? They were Reform Partiers as was Donald Trump (who has at least done more to shore up the Republican Party than the RINO establishment did for decades). Donald Trump was not a “Conservative” but he does stand up for America apparently over Globalism and he has offered some verbal pushback to the creeping Socialist tide.
As political rallies go, what is the message of these “unite the right” people? Co-opting a larger political party? Can they show their voting records to convince me that they are on the right to begin with?
I don’t swallow the line I’m being told and the media never once pointed out the presence of Mao-Che-Stalin loving Communists at virtually every Leftist rally for the last 20 years.
I am in full agreement. Every conservative rally I have ever gone to was peaceful and respectful in nature. You could bring children to them.
I went to the demonstration in Washington DC back in September 2012, the “March on Washington” with hundreds of thousands of people. There was no foul language. There were people with kids. They kept things clean and orderly.
It isn’t that way at leftist demonstrations, I can assure you of that. The foul language, rude behavior, and piggish consideration for the cleanliness of the area never surprises me, but continues to astonish me.