Tag: Alt-Right

The word “optics” was a reference to an internal debate in white nationalist politics that has been running since their murderous march on Charlottesville led to doxxings, arrests and other real-life consequences. Gab forced offline following anti-semitic posts by alleged Pittsburgh shooter Read more One the one hand, people such as Bowers advocated for an unapologetic embrace of the black-shirt role play that unmistakably marked Charlottesville out as a neo-Nazi gathering; the extremist ideology that underpinned the movement; and also the racist violence that is the only real endpoint of fascist politics. Those who dismiss the small numbers on the far right rarely consider how small the membership of modern political parties tends to be On podcasts and social media threads, white nationalists from this latter faction argued that young white nationalists should keep a low profile, stay in school and work, and carry out their political activism within established political institutions. James Allsup, who marched in Charlottesville with white nationalist group Identity Evropa, was elected as a committeeman for a local Republican branch in eastern Washington state. The plan — which is tactically sound — is to infiltrate moribund local parties in order to turn their relatively small numbers into outsized political leverage. This brings us to recent revelations in Australia about the “alt-right” infiltration of the NSW Young Nationals. According to the ABC’s Background Briefing report that first exposed this large-scale entryism, this was part of an explicit plan that exactly resembled the kind of strategy that James Allsup and others have been arguing for in the United States. When several of the members under investigation by the National party resigned last week , they did so with a letter crammed with alt-right talking points about “mass third world immigration” and innumerate fears about white Australians “becoming a minority in their own country”. This is the same strategy that has been advocated and implemented in the US. As conservative groups think these questions over, they should know the following: the strategy of “good optics” does not mean that the people carrying it out profess a moderate version of white nationalism.

The FCC shuts down controversial host Alex Jones' pirate Liberty Radio and slapped it with a $15,000 for operating without a license since at least 2013; chief congressional correspondent Mike Emanuel reports from Capitol Hill. FOX News Channel (FNC) is…

Jordan Klepper talks about his Comedy Central show The Opposition, how its promo has already caught the attention of Alex Jones and what he's learned from the alt-right. » Subscribe to Late Night: http://bit.ly/LateNightSeth » Get more Late Night with Seth…