A study says that 24 million Americans have alt-Right beliefs — what does that number mean? Psychologists surveyed hundreds of alt-Right supporters — the results are unsettling. Think Confederate monuments are racist? Consider pioneer monuments. It’s not just Confederate monuments that need to come down. This is not a time for civility: White-nationalist rallies are calls for genocide, and must be treated as such. The alt-Right is debating whether to try to look less like Nazis: “Optics-cucking”, the debate roiling white nationalists, explained. Jane Coaston on what the Unite the Right 2 rally tells us about the state of the alt-Right in America. Unite the Right 2018 was a pathetic failure.
The alt-Right and other ethno-nationalist groups are falling apart, but their ideas are still in power. The white nationalists are winning: Fox News anchors and high-profile politicians are now openly pushing the racism of the alt-Right — the fringe movement’s messages have permeated the mainstream Republican Party. White supremacy has always been mainstream: Stephen Kantrowitz reviews The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon; Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae; and Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew.
