{"id":105700,"date":"2016-09-05T20:30:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T04:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105700"},"modified":"2016-09-05T20:30:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T04:30:33","slug":"donald-trumps-alt-right-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105700","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s Alt-Right Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the New York Times Editorial Board<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The term was coined in 2008 by Richard Spencer, a white supremacist whose National Policy Institute says it is \u201cdedicated to the heritage, identity and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world.\u201d Through his online writings and YouTube channel, Mr. Spencer is a key player in the social-media universe where this core group of Trump supporters get their \u201cnews,\u201d from sources with which most people aren\u2019t familiar. A quick scan shows that immigration is not only their most important issue, it\u2019s pretty much their only issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cImmigration is a kind of proxy war \u2014 and maybe a last stand \u2014 for White Americans, who are undergoing a painful recognition that, unless dramatic action is taken, their grandchildren will live in a country that is alien and hostile,\u201d Mr. Spencer wrote in a National Policy Institute column.<\/p>\n

Infowars is another website that puts immigration front and center. The site was created by the radio commentator\/conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who is the source of Mr. Trump\u2019s false claim that thousands of New Jersey Muslims celebrated 9\/11, and on whose show Mr. Trump said: \u201cYour reputation is amazing. I will not let you down.\u201d Infowars called Mr. Trump\u2019s slashing anti-immigrant rant on Wednesday \u201can excellent speech sure to win him support from those who\u2019ve been conned by the lying media into thinking he\u2019s some evil demon creature when the truth is he\u2019s a man with a heart of gold.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump says he isn\u2019t signaling the alt-right when he says of immigrants, as he did again on Wednesday: \u201cWe have no idea who these people are, where they come from. I always say Trojan Horse. Watch what\u2019s going to happen, folks. It\u2019s not going to be pretty.\u201d Or when he said \u2014 in a line widely quoted on alt-right websites \u2014 \u201cThere is only one core issue in the immigration debate and it is this: the well-being of the American people.\u201d Mr. Trump\u2019s white supremacist followers don\u2019t take his disavowals too seriously. After all, he has enthusiastically retweeted bogus crime statistics and incendiary imagery from these websites and hired one of their biggest lights, Stephen Bannon of Breitbart News, to manage his campaign.<\/p>\n

There aren\u2019t enough of these people to put Mr. Trump in the White House. But his candidacy has granted them the legitimacy they have craved for years. For the first time, a candidate is using a major-party megaphone to shout the ideas they once could only mutter among themselves in the shadowy fringes of national debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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