{"id":102301,"date":"2016-07-25T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102301"},"modified":"2016-07-25T11:54:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T19:54:03","slug":"the-birth-of-the-alt-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102301","title":{"rendered":"The Birth Of The Alt-Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neo-reaction thinker Henry Dampier says<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Alternative Right really derives from Richard Spencer and his organization. I\u2019ve become a bigger believer in the impact of individuals, so I\u2019m going to focus on the individual there. Spencer wanted to come up with a new brand of right-wing thought that was more connected to the European zeitgeist. I imagine that he had been disheartened by what had happened to the American Conservative, which began as Pat Buchanan\u2019s organ to float an alternative to George W. Bush\u2019s compassionate invade-the-world invite-the-world conservativism.<\/p>\n

Spencer attempted to abandon the Alternative Right term when he renamed his website to Radix and redirected his domain. Then, it took a life of its own. He seemed to want to promote a term, \u2018identitarianism,\u2019 that has never really caught on all that well. Identitarianism is a higher brow white nationalism that tries to shun Cletus the stereotypical ex-con white nationalist without overtly shunning Cletus and telling them that he is not wanted at the party…<\/p>\n

So you get a few types of people who write for this kind of fringe audience:<\/p>\n

Bright and interesting writers who contribute fascinating work until they burn out and move on to other projects, like Moldbug.<\/p>\n

Attention whores who will do anything for a \u2018fav\u2019<\/p>\n

People who try really, really, really hard to make it a full time job when the audience won\u2019t support it, which makes everything they do seem cloying and grasping as they lurch from personal disaster to disaster. \u201cPlease like and subscribe!\u201d<\/p>\n

A small number of professionals like Vox Day who, through superhuman work ethic, actually make it work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neo-reaction thinker Henry Dampier says: The Alternative Right really derives from Richard Spencer and his organization. I\u2019ve become a bigger believer in the impact of individuals, so I\u2019m going to focus on the individual there. Spencer wanted to come up … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42720,29690],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-right","category-dark-enlightenment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t