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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.
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.
The media empire of the modern-day alternative right coalesced around Richard Spencer during his editorship of Taki’s Magazine. In 2010, Spencer founded AlternativeRight.com, which would become a center of alt-right thought.
Isolationists, pro-Russians and ex-Ron Paul supporters frustrated with continued neoconservative domination of the Republican party were also drawn to the alt-right, who are almost as likely as the anti-war left to object to overseas entanglements.
There are many things that separate the alternative right from old-school racist skinheads (to whom they are often idiotically compared), but one thing stands out above all else: intelligence. Skinheads, by and large, are low-information, low-IQ thugs driven by the thrill of violence and tribal hatred. The alternative right are a much smarter group of people — which perhaps suggests why the Left hates them so much. They’re dangerously bright.
Natural conservatives can broadly be described as the group that the intellectuals above were writing for. They are mostly white, mostly male middle-American radicals, who are unapologetically embracing a new identity politics that prioritises the interests of their own demographic.
In their politics, these new conservatives are only following their natural instincts — the same instincts that motivate conservatives across the globe. These motivations have been painstakingly researched by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, and an instinct keenly felt by a huge swathe of the political population: the conservative instinct.
The conservative instinct, as described by Haidt, includes a preference for homogeneity over diversity, for stability over change, and for hierarchy and order over radical egalitarianism. Their instinctive wariness of the foreign and the unfamiliar is an instinct that we all share – an evolutionary safeguard against excessive, potentially perilous curiosity – but natural conservatives feel it with more intensity. They instinctively prefer familiar societies, familiar norms, and familiar institutions.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: theantediluvian
Since you are so educated on the topic, perhaps you can elucidate on the differences between "white nationalism", "nationalism" and "globalism".
originally posted by: Deny Arrogance
Oops!
You forgot to label Milo as a "Trump surrogate" like you usually do in your propaganda hit pieces.
You're slipping.
originally posted by: theantediluvian
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: theantediluvian
Since you are so educated on the topic, perhaps you can elucidate on the differences between "white nationalism", "nationalism" and "globalism".
Perhaps instead of begging for me to educate you as a way of diverting from the topic in every thread I post today, you could take some time to go educate yourself?
Yay! A new label for you guys to box people into and deprive them of their individuality!
Let me guess. My "alt-right attitude" is showing, right?
Let the hate flow through you.
originally posted by: worldstarcountry
a reply to: theantediluvian
yay, alt-right is the next "your racist" pathetic fail character assassination buzz word for the quarter. Love how it picked up steam the moment Hillary cast out the venom from her rabid face hole.
You lose Hillary, it still smacks into a brick wall and falls into a pool of "we not falling for it anymore" because Trump will be the next POTUS.
This is the type of ridiculous, overblown propaganda from the left that is pushing anyone with a brain capable of critical thinking farther to the right.