Trump and the ‘alt-right’ become one
Hipster racists and the game-show-host-turned-Prez-wannabe: here’s a first-rate analysis of this unsurprising union at the Christian Science Monitor:
The appointment of Breitbart news chief Stephen Bannon to head Donald Trump’s presidential campaign this week marks the official entree of the so-called “alt-right” into the Republicans’ top campaign.
For the Trump campaign, Mr. Bannon is an experienced political street fighter who is well-versed in the sharp-edged, populist message that served the candidate well in the Republican primaries.
Mr. Trump’s tapping of the alt-right could help solidify his base by letting Trump be Trump, and potentially propel him to hit Hillary Clinton’s weak points harder.
But critics say that Bannon’s hiring resonates far beyond the Trump campaign in troubling ways. It marks a worrisome marriage of the Republican Party with an Internet culture that, they say, peddles in white identity, misogyny, anti-Semitism, and Clinton conspiracies.
In short, it doubles down on a largely white voting bloc that, in the words of Brendan O’Neill, a commentator for the conservative Spectator magazine in Britain, is “convinced the world is one big lefty, feminist plot to ruin your average white dude’s life.”
The entire article is worth a read.
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David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
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Buford2k11 August 20th, 2016 at 08:46
I wonder if Trump will have firing squads for the Press and those who disagree with him…? That would be the “Putin” thing to do…
bpollen August 20th, 2016 at 19:22
A big Vulcan mind meld between stupid Vulcan racists and stupid Vulcan conspiracy theorists into a Vulcan hive-mind whacked out on Vulcan crack, and let’s not forget the Vulcan misogyny…
Gary Parillo August 20th, 2016 at 20:58
The combination of Bannon, Trump, and the far right radio wackos such as Michael Savage,Alex Jones,Rush Limbaugh,and numerous others Ive not heard of, is building up into something sinister and ugly.Those maniacs literally hate liberals,democrats,Hillary,and Obama.There hatred for muslims,people of color,gay people,and just about everyone else is spreading through the right wing dominated am radio medium and internet hate sites.They combine their madness with evangelical fervor as they hide behind religion as their cover,as they pervert what used to be christianity and have shaped into a new and dangerous reality.They poison the minds of the gullible,and want our country for themselves.