{"id":122931,"date":"2018-08-02T09:08:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T17:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=122931"},"modified":"2018-08-02T09:08:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T17:08:43","slug":"wp-to-torontos-embarrassment-a-new-alt-right-challenger-rises-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=122931","title":{"rendered":"WP: To Toronto\u2019s embarrassment, a new alt-right challenger rises in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Washington Post<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Once relatively mainstream and well-connected, over the past three years Goldy\u2019s politics have exponentially become extreme. She was previously a mainstay of the Sun News Network and Conrad Black\u2019s \u201cThe Zoomer,\u201d but her increasing comfort with the toxic vocabulary and characters of white nationalism has exiled her to ever-darker corners of the internet\u2019s underground. Following widespread denunciation of her sympathetic coverage of the Charlottesville rioters, she was fired last year from Rebel Media after a cheerful appearance on a podcast run by the viciously anti-Semitic Daily Stormer.<\/p>\n

Goldy\u2019s audacious but significant candidacy \u2014 she is surely the highest-profile alt-right celebrity to seek elected office \u2014 is deeply embarrassing to the city and is likely to be ignored by its press and politicians. Years of celebrity have probably earned her more admirers than many care to contemplate, however, and her racialized rhetoric panders to real anxiety over surging gun violence. It would no doubt expose awkward truths about the city\u2019s pretenses of unqualified tolerance if her run were treated seriously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Washington Post: Once relatively mainstream and well-connected, over the past three years Goldy\u2019s politics have exponentially become extreme. She was previously a mainstay of the Sun News Network and Conrad Black\u2019s \u201cThe Zoomer,\u201d but her increasing comfort with … 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-122931","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