Hillary Clinton to formally address the alt-right on Thursday
With TIME, The Washington Post, and many other mainstream publications having touched on the alt-right within the past week, it seems that CBS now wants a piece of the action.
Hillary Clinton will address Donald Trump and his campaign’s embrace of the “alt-right” political movement in a speech on Thursday, according to a Clinton campaign official.
“This “alt-right” brand is embracing extremism and presenting a divisive and dystopian view of America which should concern all Americans, regardless of party,” the official said.
Clinton will deliver the speech in Reno, Nevada. A CBS News/YouGov battleground tracker poll earlier this month found that 43 percent of Nevada’s voters support Clinton and 41 percent back Trump.
The official added that Clinton will contrast Trump’s “divisive views and dangerous temperament” with a plan to unite Americans.
They tried ignoring us. When that failed, they tried dismissing us as lunatics, simpletons, and overgrown children.
Now, however, they're starting to realize that our position does, in fact, have legitimacy.
This frightens them.
It's too late, though. By refusing to take us seriously, they failed to stop us when they had a chance to do so.
Our movement has taken off and there is simply nothing they can do to stop us.
The “alt-right” has come under the spotlight after Trump’s decision to hire Steve Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, as his campaign’s CEO. He also promoted Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager after she had been working as a senior adviser and pollster.
The “alt-right” is considered to be a movement, shunned by traditional conservatives, that rejects notions of equality among ethnic groups and genders. It came to prominence after alt-right adherents on social media became some of Donald Trump’s most enthusiastic backers during the GOP primaries.
While Breitbart can't be considered truly alt-right, there is certainly a significant degree of overlap. Both the alt-right and Breitbart deal with the migrant crisis, Donald Trump, black crime, multiculturalism, and so forth. However, Breitbart offers a dilluted version of the truth. For example, it never touches on Jewish influence. I wonder why? It also doesn't delve nearly deep enough into the race issue, or offer any substantial criticism of liberalism – classical or modern.
This isn't the end of the world, though. Breitbart has likely pushed thousands of people to the right, leading them to legitimate alt-right sites such as Red Ice, TRS, and Counter-Currents – sites that offer a complete, unadulterated diagnosis of the ills of the modernity.
As a vanguard movement, the alt-right is initiating a massive cultural shift for which the masses – and most importantly, our enemies – are unprepared. That Breitbart focuses on our issues, uses our memes, and employs younger staffers who are discreetly alt-right is proof that what we're doing is working.
Changing the cultural landscape is no easy task; we cannot expect everyone to become fully alt-right overnight. Having Breitbart remain a point of entry for the masses works well so long as we remain completely unapologetic and uncomprimising in our assertion of what the alt-right really stands for: race realism, racial nationalism, anti-liberalism, and acknowledging Jewish subversion.
Regardless of whether or not Trump wins in November, one thing is clear: the alt-right is here to stay.
The fire rises.
