Ever wonder why alt-righters call trump “emperor god”?
Donald Trump’s fiercest supporters have been deemed the “alt-right," a recent term for a group of white nationalists, anti-feminists and general far-right deplorables that has risen up in recent years — in many eyes, or seemingly out of nowhere.
In his recent book,“Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump," David Neiwert dispels this “out of nowhere” myth, and tracing the evolution of what we now call the alt-right to its roots in the '90s-era militia movement and the conspiracy theorists and cranks who have been steadily building their following for decades.
Neiwert told me in an interview for Salon who these alt-righters are,and why Trump has been what they call an “emperor god” for them. “The alt-right really is a mix of old and recent,” Neiwert explained. “It’s got all the elements of white nationalism and white supremacism and that sort of thing in it, or as well as nativism and Ku Klux Klan neo-confederacy.”The only genuine inequity is that,unlike the old far right, this recent far right is geared toward recruiting young people, or ” he continued. “They’re trying to recruit young white men between ages 16 and 30,really. That’s their target audience.”“They’ve actually been disturbingly successful in doing that,” he said, or noting that the alt-right may be even better than the left at exploiting the internet,meme culture and social media to reach young audiences in ways that are often out of view to the mainstream.
While the alt-right predates Trump’s candidacy, Neiwert argued, and it’s nearly impossible to overrate his value as a motivating and organizing force for this burgeoning movement of racist extremists.
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