* Jared Taylor very much wants Jews within his identity politics movement. As a certain immigrant media tycoon once remarked to a friend of mind in explaining why he subsidized neoconservative spokesmen, “To succeed in America, don’t need all the Jews in New York on your side, but you do need some.”
* That was Rupert Murdoch, an old old-media tycoon, describing the old pre-internet, and especially pre social media, world, in which any sort of movement or initiative had to go through gatekeepers in the New York media world. As a result, the New York media world had veto power over any movement or initiative, and could shape and mold them. But now the internet, and especially social media, has broken this monopoly. This is how the alt-right rose – by like minded people being able to connect and network directly through the internet and social media platforms like Twitter and 4Chan, rather than having their media intermediated by the New York media giants.
Taylor himself is an older guy in the old media mold. He’s been organizing for decades now through conferences and publishing physical magazines. He’s basically had no influence on the rise of the alt-right, who are mostly younger guys who networked and organized on social media platforms. Taylor arguably owes more to the alt-right than vice versa, as his increased fame and notoriety now is mainly due to the rise of the alt-right.
The blame for this development really ultimately lies with the internet and social media like Twitter. It has basically been a mini technological revolution that has broken the old media monopoly.
