TAC: The Rise of the Alt-Right

November 1, 2016 Hunter Wallace Alternative Right 35

Scott McConnell has written a long article on The Rise of the Alt-Right:

“The surge in curiosity about the alt-right—Clinton claimed in her speech that some alt-right websites had seen their traffic increase a thousand fold—has virtually nothing to do with a rise in hardcore white nationalism. Which raises the question of what does drive the rise, and why is it happening now?”

Not a bad article, but I have a different explanation:

1.) Donald Trump – If it were not for Donald Trump, the Alt-Right surge would not be happening. Ted Cruz would have won the Republican nomination. The Alt-Right would have remained politically apathetic and hostile to the Republican Party.

Trump is the reason why the Alt-Right got involved in the Republican primaries in 2016. None of the other candidates had any real appeal to the Alt-Right. Trump was exciting because he wasn’t a conservative. He ran as a nationalist and populist and slowly but surely he electrified White Nationalists. Most of these people don’t vote and they have never had anything resembling a leader.

Just look at the Republican field: Jim Gilmore, Rick Santorum, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, John Kasich, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Rick Santorum, Carly Fiorina, Scott Walker, Bobby Jindal, Lindsey Graham. There were 16 conservatives running … and Donald Trump.

With the exception of Ron Paul, who was an outsider we agreed with on foreign policy, there hasn’t been a presidential candidate in a generation who had any appeal to the Alt-Right. Trump pressed many, many more of the right buttons. I think the Alt-Right took an instant like to Trump because of his El Jefe personality. Donald Trump has a sort of Mussolinian zest and daring about him. He is the total opposite of Scott Walker in that respect, and when the TruCons went after him, it was on like Donkey Kong!

2.) Breitbart/Alt-Lite – Trump lured the Alt-Right into the Republican primaries. When the cucks went to war against Trump, the Alt-Right couldn’t resist joining that fight. No one would have cared if it was Ted Cruz hitting Marco Rubio over the head with a chair. The final result wouldn’t have been of any interest to our community.

Breitbart and the Alt-Lite phenomena is the second major cause of the rise of the Alt-Right. This diluted middle ground didn’t exist a few years ago. Now, it is growing and growing and has became the major vector of Alt-Right ideas into the mainstream. The emergence of the Alt-Lite is a symptom of how the border of respectability between the “mainstream” and “extremists” has collapsed in the last five years.

3.) Twitter – 2015 was the year the Alt-Right figured out the potential of Twitter.

For 16 years now, the Alt-Right has had forums, podcasts, blogs, and websites. We’ve had Facebook, but it is heavily censored and it acts like another ghetto. Twitter, however, has unlimited potential for both organizing and the viral spread of Alt-Right ideas. I believe it was the troll armies who first figured out the potential of Twitter, but others quickly learned from their example and began signing up their own accounts.

4.) Internal Weaknesses – Conservatism is weak.

There are so many reasons: there was Iraq/Libya/Syria, which discredited the neocons; there was the Crash of 2008, the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs, the shrinking middle class, and 40 years of wage stagnation, which discredited globalization and the free-traders; there was open borders, which has been a flash point for a decade with populists and which the Republican establishment foolishly ignored.

The list goes on … there was the Supreme Court upholding gay marriage, Obamacare, and ruling against Arizona on immigration. There was the Tea Party which the Republican establishment decided to crush in the 2014 midterms. There was the Republican Congress which became a symbol for the cowardice and fecklessness of elected Republicans which paved the way for Trump to steamroll over them.

Beyond that, there are four underlying structural changes in the composition of the Republican Party which are eroding the appeal of conservatism: the steady rise in White racial consciousness due to changing racial demographics, the influx of millions of White working class Democrats into the Republican Party, the secularization of the White working class, and finally the generational turnover of so many Reaganite conservatives (the average National Review subscriber is 66 years old) going to their graves.

The Republican establishment wants the GOP to be a suburban, country club political party that is ideologically committed to classical liberalism and culturally deferential and thus respectable to the Left. The problem is that its racially, culturally, and economically anxious base wants it to be neither of those things!

Look at it this way: Donald Trump was the tip of the Alt-Right spear, Breitbart/Alt-Lite was the spearhead, and Twitter (which could summon the energies of the entire movement which has been gestating for sixteen years now in comment sections) was the shaft. The spear pierced the Republican Party because it had grown so weak due to its own internal contradictions between its leadership and the interests of its base.

If I am right, then the best case scenario for the TruCons is that Trump is defeated and goes away, but 3 out of 4 of these conditions remain. Then again, Trump might win the election, or he might lose and decide not to go away. Maybe he starts a second party. Maybe he sees himself as Jean-Marie Le Pen and Ivanka or Donald Jr. inherits his movement and runs in 2020. Maybe Breitbart/Alt-Lite finds another candidate.

In the long term, the Reaganites are dying out. There will be fewer of them in 2020. There will be more racial, cultural and economic anxiety. If Trump loses, the Republican base will be even angrier in 2020 after Hillary’s outrages. The Republican base will tilt more White working class. It will grow more secularized, more Alt-Rightish, more deaf to the George Wills, less responsive to Erick Erickson’s preaching. As for the cucks, they are so pathetic that they will increasingly be seen as useless.

You know, maybe that is the Alt-Right’s secret sauce: these cucks are useless, disloyal and antagonistic toward their own voters. Their snobbery and treachery is now plainly obvious to an audience far larger than the Alt-Right. The #NeverTrump movement is openly conspiring to elect Hillary. The Alt-Right is growing because it is providing the vocabulary, concepts and analysis to disillusioned voters (via Breitbart/Alt-Lite and Twitter) who are trying to make sense of the actions of their hostile leadership.

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35 Comments

  1. The “alt right’s” growth is attributable to two things:

    1) Horace the Avenger’s popularization of The Mantra

    2) The 2010 publication of the Neanderthal genome

    In so many years people now think that

    2) their race is real

    1) their race is in peril

    This collapsed the entire Libertarian Inc.that was following Ron Paul, Alex Jones and numerous others. Now many have “evolved” shamelessly and have abandoned their alleged principles such as Stefan Molyneaux – just to chase the sheckels.

    Then The Daily Shoah and then after the Daily Stormer advanced the style honed in the bowels of the internet (ytmnd, pol, 4chan) and started attracting the former libertarians.

    Trump actually stumbled badly many times but each time he was buoyed by unshakable legions of “alt right” fanatics who understand this as an existential struggle. There is a synergy there, to be sure, but most of the contribution is us to Trump rather than the reverse.

    In a week, the future will be revealed to us all.

      • And with the sodomite national holiday-Halloween-now over we have exactly a week from all Saints Day, to pray for the victory of Donald Trump over the powers of hell and the Jezebel of Satan.

        I’m not joking. This is now the week to pray for Donald Trump’s victory, to barrage heaven with our requests for a king that would be both an Ethnarch, and a righteous ruler – we need to pray for his conversion as well. Exaudi oratione nobis, Domine.

        • Halloween is a the devolution of the glorious Holy Day Saimhain.The End of Summer. Samhain goes til Sunset today. Do NOT trash the TRUE Faith of my Race, you poseur. Watch your GOD DAMNED MOUTH, or I’ll send a Morrigan to teach you proper respect.

          • Denise, I don’t know what has transpired in your life to repudiate the faith of the Celts -that is, true Christianity -and to revert back to the pale and weak shadows of the pre-Christian pagan era…

            But I will say as calmly and is gently as I can- “you’re wrong, dear.” I have been your advocate since you first started posting on Occidental Dissent. I put up with the insults given to me in your stead by Stonelifter, and a number of other people, because I believed that women should be defended from their adversaries, because I’m a chivalrous Christian man.

            But if you turn from our Lord and Saviour to the weak and beggar lay elements of paganism, you no longer are under my chivalric care, and have become as Lady MacBeth.

            It’s your choice, Denise. May God have mercy on you.

    • Stefan’s a Jew. Shekel chasing is in it’s genes. Stefani was never one of us
      It’s JEWS. JEWS are the core of the problem, and have been the bane of Human existence for EVER.

  2. The opinions that makeup the “alt-right” has been rising steadily because people are tired of the oppression and aggressiveness of the politically correct elites.

  3. Scott MCConnell in the American Conservative article mentions he wrote an article for (((Commentary))) on Jared Taylor that the magazine refused to publish, wonder what that said

  5. The conservative cage was broken out of and the alt-right Troll army was unleashed upon the world. Instead of the Left perping an outrage then the Right writing endless essays to compete for readers and trying to explain what the Left really meant the Right flipped the script and has the Left/cuck alliance writing endless clickbait essays explaining to its moronic base what it all really means and how outrageous it really is.

    And I agree with Afterthought the alt-Right broke out because the BUGsers stood outside the Conservative Death Camp and showed that there is a way and life is not hopeless as it seemed. Even Richard Spencer the subject of McConnell”s ire was playing conservative intellectual and hoping for the precious Smart Badge from the left.

    • Spreading BUGster memes on Twitter and elsewhere is the perfect alt right alternative to hopelessness and despair.

      • So true, conservatism’s intellectual model was a trap of hopelessness and despair, BUGsers began trolling and having fun and even when the neo-nazis tried to interject their jooosser despair back into it they were brushed aside in favor of trolling the Left for fun.

        I can think of two examples to illustrate the despair of trying to ape conservative intellectualism. First is the old blogger Mindweapon spending a week of his time debating a jew about the size of penises on white men and second were those two young men in Indiana trying to white knight the Slut Walk, total fails for all.

        It is best to troll than to be trolled.

  6. It’s all the KGB.

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    • I was looking for you, Azzmador and Spectre on shitter. Larry Kleinfeld also got sent to the gas ovens. So much for jew ideas about democracy and free speech.

    • Some people try to make jokes about it, but you and I understand how serious it is that Trump, Comey, McCabe, McCauliff, Lynch, McCain, McCarthy, Ryan, Kelly, Hannity, O’Reilly, Conway, Buchanan, Molyneux, Murray, Duke and Anglin are known KGB agents and members of the Paddy Spud Gang.

  11. Or, Trump starts a media empire with the 50 million + audience he now has and we begin to spread the truth to white European Americans to unify our movement. According to the New York Times, over 40 million eligible white voters are not registered and won’t vote. A Trump media empire blaring the alt right message may make them aware of exactly what they need to be fighting for and what is at stake here.

  12. Ann Coulter’s book Adios America was the spark that ignited the Trump revolution. Ann Coulter seems to be persona non grata on Fox News Channel, where she used to make frequent appearances.

  13. The rise of the Alt-Right is because we’re sick of all this kikery:

    Ancient Kikess Raps in “The Land of the Perpetrators”

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    At 91, Esther Bejarano raps against hate

    An Auschwitz survivor, Esther has had a late successful career as a hip-hop artist

    By Dirk Wagner, Project M online, 27 09 2016

    We’ll live forever … in spite of our enemies,” sings 91-year-old Esther Bejarano to an audience in Hamburg, Germany. Bejarano performs the song, written in 1943 by a poet in the Jewish Ghetto of Vilnius, Lithuania, with Cologne-based hip-hop band Microphone Mafia.

    “We represent three generations and three religions,” she explains. Bejarano believes people from different religions and different cultures can work together in peace. Amongst the band members is a Muslim whose parents migrated from Turkey, a Christian whose parents came from Italy and she is the Jew from Germany.

    At the age of 18, Bejarano was taken to Auschwitz and there had her first public performance. Recruited for the Auschwitz Women’s Orchestra, she sang in the morning at the camp’s gate while the prisoners traipsed to the fields and in the evening when the workers returned, shattered by the hard, physical work.

    She also vividly recalls the group singing for new arrivals at the camp gates – many were being led into the gas chambers. “They had no idea what was coming,” she reflects. “They probably thought: well, if they’re playing music, it can’t be that bad.”

    LAND OF THE PERPETRATORS

    As the war neared its end, Bejarano escaped and later immigrated to Israel where she studied singing. Unable to cope with the climate, she returned to Hamburg, Germany with her family in 1960.

    For many years, Bejarano was an outsider in the harbor city. She didn’t trust anyone. If she saw anyone on the street who her age or older, she wondered how many crimes he committed? “Maybe he was the one who killed my sister or my parents.”

    THAT MADE ME ANGRY

    For thirty years, she remained silent – until the National Democratic Party of Germany set up an information stand in front of her boutique. “That made me angry,” she recalls.

    “But what made me angrier was when the police arrived. They defended the neo-Nazis against the people protesting against them. That’s when I thought: I have to do something. I have to let everyone know I’m an Auschwitz survivor.”

    In 2009, Bejarano, a co-founder of the International Auschwitz Committee and honorary chair of the Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime, recorded the album Per La Vita with the band the Microphone Mafia. La Vita Continua, their second album, was released in 2013. In this compilation, hip-hop meets Jewish folklore, the songs of Italian partisans and traditional Turkish music.

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  14. It’s hard to imagine there being some kind of precedent for the alt-right movement. They are, in a way, sort of like the National Socialist or National Populist version of the Yippies, Diggers and Merry Pranksters of the 1960s. Or maybe even the Dadaists of the 1920s and Les Incroyables of the French Revolution. As far as George “Pantywaist” Will and Erik “Porky Pig” Erikson go, they are already irrelevant.

  16. Scott McConnell is such a lying bastard. So many misleading statements, distortions and lies, shrink-wrapped in classic cuck timidity, cowardice and Jew servitude, so little time. As just one example, notice how McConnell drones on a bit about neo-conservatism, even acknowledging its Jewish essence, but fails to mention its Trotskyite roots or that its thinkers were instrumental in selling the Iraq War. Who was Irving Kristol’s mentor Scott? I wish Pat B would embrace the alt right and denounce the cucks, including his old cowardly partner McConnell.

  17. This is why it’s important for the alt-right hive-mind to comment frequently at Breitbart. Gradually redpilling populist right leaning people is a great way to grow the movement. YouTube is another good opportunity. I’m always surprised at how many normies apparently now understand what (((this))) means.

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