Trump: Hillary Clinton is supported by the most radical groups of Leftist progressives! She is a radical!
Somewhere, the most radical groups of Leftist progressives are collapsing with laughter.
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Trump: Hillary Clinton is supported by the most radical groups of Leftist progressives! She is a radical!
Somewhere, the most radical groups of Leftist progressives are collapsing with laughter.
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The GOP has been working very hard to get to this point, but I think they’ve fully embraced a ‘post-factual’ politics. They’ve decided that words don’t mean anything anymore, which has backfired on them bigtime in 2016.
http://www.businessinsider.com/conservative-media-trump-drudge-coulter-2016-8
“One of the chief problems, Sykes said, was that it had become impossible to prove to listeners that Trump was telling falsehoods because over the past several decades, the conservative news media had “basically eliminated any of the referees, the gatekeepers.”
“There’s nobody,” he lamented. “Let’s say that Donald Trump basically makes whatever you want to say, whatever claim he wants to make. And everybody knows it’s a falsehood. The big question of my audience, it is impossible for me to say that, ‘By the way, you know it’s false.’ And they’ll say, ‘Why? I saw it on Allen B. West.’ Or they’ll say, ‘I saw it on a Facebook page.’ And I’ll say, ‘The New York Times did a fact check.’ And they’ll say, ‘Oh, that’s The New York Times. That’s bulls—.’ There’s nobody – you can’t go to anybody and say, ‘Look, here are the facts.'”
“And I have to say that’s one of the disorienting realities of this political year. You can be in this alternative media reality and there’s no way to break through it,” Sykes continued.”
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Post-factual is a good word. For instance, why are we suddenly substituting the word neo-Nazis with “alt-right”? Took me forever to figure out what people were actually talking about with this alt-right thing. What, is it a fear to hurt the tender feelings of the KKK?
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I suspect the idea is to associate the political right with racism. When I think of neo-nazis I think of prison gangs, motorcycle gangs, or some creepy militia in the middle of nowhere. The vast majority of the country has never encountered one outside of TV shows.
But an alt-righter could be your next door neighbor, or your pleated-khakis wearing coworker who goes home at night and anonymously harasses women on Twitter.
That is the Trump base. And it’s so much broader than just KKKers. The GOP has nurtured this base for decades now, but Trump pied-pipered it away from them in 2016.
Actual KKKers in this country would be, what, 0.001%? Trump resonates with 20-30% of this country. So, you need a new term to describe this group. Alt-right seems as good as any.
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Also I think alt-right is how they self identify. As a rule of thumb, I think it’s better to accept and use the labels that people bestow on themselves. I would rather see Dems, lefties, and otherwise decent people attacking this problematic ideology than get mired in some labelling debate about whether these creatures are neo-nazis or alt-righters.
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They are not the same. The alt-right is fairly new movment that has a very different intellectual origin from neo-Naziism. The fact that they are both racist doesn’t make them the same. A lot of the alt-right’s intellectual framework consists of applying left wing identity politics and concepts of national (in an ehno-racial sense) liberation to white Christians (in a racial sense). In theoretical terms it is far closer to a gentile version of Zionism than it is to neo-Naziism. Because it is an American movement race as defined by skin color and generic Christian background takes the place of specific ethno-nationalisms like German. Thus it is far more a racist inversion of certain strains of Black Power than a revival of German National Socialism.
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