{"id":117643,"date":"2017-09-20T13:01:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T21:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=117643"},"modified":"2017-09-20T13:01:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T21:01:40","slug":"if-milo-is-new-face-of-american-right-were-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=117643","title":{"rendered":"If Milo is New Face of American Right We\u2019re in Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Gottfried writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As a historian of the American conservative movement, I dove into Milo\u2019s book because I was interested in what it conveyed about the Alt-Right, but my interest quickly dissipated after I read the relevant remarks. I would gather that there used to be an original Alt-Right, which \u201cwas the most exciting, dynamic and effective right-wing to emerge since the Tea Party.\u201d This creation was so good that even an \u201cIsraeli-supporting former Tea Party member was in those days just as likely to be drawn to it as a Richard Spencer-devotee.\u201d Unfortunately it\u2019s never made clear what this wonderful thing was before Spencer and his confr\u00e8res ruined it by identifying the Alt-Right with white nationalism and even Holocaust-deniers. In fact it\u2019s hard to figure out much of anything about the movement that Milo credits himself with having founded\u2014and which apparently his well-heeled patrons thought was super. For those who are curious about Milo\u2019s topic, I would urge them to read George Hawley\u2019s Making Sense of the Alt-Right. Unlike Milo, Hawley has studied the subject of his research and doesn\u2019t bother to explore the contributions made by the author of Dangerous, whose formative influence on Hawley\u2019s subject was less than negligible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Gottfried writes: As a historian of the American conservative movement, I dove into Milo\u2019s book because I was interested in what it conveyed about the Alt-Right, but my interest quickly dissipated after I read the relevant remarks. I would … 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-right"],"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