{"id":106132,"date":"2016-09-09T17:20:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T01:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106132"},"modified":"2016-09-09T17:20:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T01:20:04","slug":"the-alt-right-wants-to-professionalize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106132","title":{"rendered":"The Alt-Right Wants To Professionalize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/rosiegray\/the-alt-right-wants-to-professionalize?utm_term=.axRXOQRNd#.ojaR6PBLZ\">Rosie Gray writes<\/a>: \u201cWe\u2019ve got to have professional organizations, professional people doing it, we\u2019ve got to amp up what we\u2019re already doing,\u201d said Richard Spencer, a white nationalist leader.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The press conference was billed as an explainer of the alt-right, but it was also focused on where the three men see things developing in the future, both politically and on a grander philosophical level. Brimelow sees the country breaking up geographically into different sections, while Spencer envisions a white ethno-state. But the matter of more immediate concern is still Trump\u2019s campaign, which while not a perfect vessel for the alt-right is as close as anything has come, culminating in Trump\u2019s hiring former Breitbart News chairman Steve Bannon, who has described Breitbart as \u201cplatform for the alt-right.\u201d Alt-right members sneer not just at the left but also at movement conservatives, viewing them as relics who sold out on the issue that matters most: race. Brimelow dismissed National Review, for example, as a \u201ccuckservative operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly we have been you could say riding his coattails,\u201d Spencer said of Trump. He acknowledged the alt-right\u2019s differences of opinion with Trump on policy but downplayed the importance of policies at all; \u201cit\u2019s about him,\u201d Spencer said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s about in a way projecting onto him our hopes and dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosie Gray writes: \u201cWe\u2019ve got to have professional organizations, professional people doing it, we\u2019ve got to amp up what we\u2019re already doing,\u201d said Richard Spencer, a white nationalist leader. &#8230;The press conference was billed as an explainer of the alt-right, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106132\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-right"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106133,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106132\/revisions\/106133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}