{"id":5232,"date":"2018-11-20T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T02:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2018-11-20T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T23:27:11","slug":"the-legacy-of-the-alt-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/20\/the-legacy-of-the-alt-right\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legacy of the Alt-Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much digital ink has been spent burying the spectre of the Alt-Right.\u00a0 Probably most of this is butt-covering going on trying to assure the powers that be that the individual in question is NOT of the Alt-Right and therefore not deserving of de-platforming.<\/p>\n<p>Along with this interment is the surprising fact that most people (including myself) are not entirely sure what the definition and origins of the Alt-Right precisely are.\u00a0 I know that depending on the exact capitalization and hyphenation of the name it can be the Richard Spencer coined term for the white identitarian group that he belongs to.\u00a0 Other versions of this and similar expressions like Dissident Right have different emphases and appeal to different points of view.<\/p>\n<p>But whatever names and whatever divisions these groups make between each other (and they certainly do that), one thing is undeniable.\u00a0 These were the groups that identified the real problems afflicting the United States and they were the ones who backed Donald Trump before anyone else even thought he was serious.\u00a0 Whatever else they are wrong about they were right about those things.\u00a0 To deny that is to deny the truth.<\/p>\n<p>And the other thing that needs to be said and that is the central point of this post is that they along with President Trump are responsible for moving the Overton Window to the point where even the normies like me have heard the details of what the Alt-Right knew and have incorporated it into our world view.\u00a0 No one bothers to even dispute the platitudes of the Establishment GOP when they\u2019re mouthed.\u00a0 We might give a sarcastic snort and then close the link and go to some useful website where actual thinking is going on.\u00a0 The Alt-Right and Donald Trump truly revealed why the right always lost.\u00a0 It was because our supposed leaders didn\u2019t want to win.\u00a0 They just wanted the job of losing.<\/p>\n<p>Now, all of this is old hat.\u00a0 We all know all of this.\u00a0 But it was hammered home to me when I was perusing an article in American Greatness by Christopher Roach entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/11\/20\/the-radicalism-of-conservatism-inc\/\">The Radicalism of Conservatism, Inc.<\/a>\u201d\u00a0 Now it\u2019s a very good article and it delves into the history of how the establishment right became so wrong on how to win.\u00a0 But reading the description of how Trump deconstructed the \u201cillegal immigration is an act of love,\u201d and describing establishment conservatives by saying, \u201cthat they function chiefly as the palace guard for yesterday\u2019s liberalism\u201d could have come directly out of a ZMan post from a year ago.\u00a0 What that tells me is the knowledge that the Alt-Right pioneered has been successfully dispersed into the bloodstream of the conservative body politic (if I may mangle a metaphor that far).<\/p>\n<p>Whatever agreements or disagreements we may have with either the tactics or the substance of what the Alt-Right believes we have to acknowledge that they have red-pilled a significant part of the normie right.\u00a0 And that is without a doubt an enormous achievement.\u00a0 Without them maybe Clinton beats Trump and with a solid liberal majority on the Supreme Court we might now be watching as the First and Second Amendments were being effectively chloroformed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much digital ink has been spent burying the spectre of the Alt-Right.\u00a0 Probably most of this is butt-covering going on trying to assure the powers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,245,237,6],"tags":[80,160,1500,455,969,451,562,326,16],"class_list":["post-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-review-of-article","category-reviews","category-trump","tag-alt-right","tag-american-greatness","tag-christopher-roach","tag-dissident-right","tag-overton-window","tag-red-pill","tag-red-pilled-normie","tag-red-pilling","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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