While there are various strains and heterogenous thought leaders, generally speaking the alt-right, or alternative right, thumbs its nose at “mainstream” or “establishment” conservatism, embraces  nationalism and believes that immigration and multiculturalism are threats to white identity. Many of these alt-right activists are intellectually, historically and ethically incoherent and misguided. While their underlying concern may be valid — e.g. the decline of Western civilization — their solutions, expressions and their anti-Semitic, anti-women, racist smearing are truly deplorable. In their degradations of black and Hispanic Americans, they engage in a disturbing throwback to the days of codified discrimination, including slavery and Jim Crow and our founding documents designating black people as subhuman. This ignores the conservative worldview that government should be limited–that big government shouldn’t restrict basic civil rights. Members of the alt-right also often express rancid sentiments about the abilities of women, ignoring the powerful contributions of female conservative champions like Margaret Thatcher. Many of them argue that superior IQ justifies white male supremacy even though it’s Jewish individuals and Asians who score the highest on such tests. And they try to ignore or downplay the Judeo side of the contribution to Judeo-Christian civilization. While the substance of Hillary Clinton’s…
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