Four lessons from the alt-right’s D.C. coming out party
11 / 27
The Washington Post
David Weigel12 hrs ago
College football's Week 2 winners and losers
© Photo by Pete Marovich For The Washington Post White nationalist writer Jared Taylor in his home in Oakton, Virginia.
Ten years ago, for the first time, a constellation of social conservative organizations gathered in Washington for the Values Voter Summit. The event's name was a bit of an in-joke — "values voters," identified for the first (and only) time in the 2004 election exit poll, went solidly for President George W. Bush. After the election, panicked liberals identified social conservatives as the greatest threat to their own values, dubbing them"Christofascists," mocking red states as "Jesusland," and reading books with titles like"Kingdom Coming,""Rapture Ready" and "Republican Gomorrah."
The Values Voter Summit met again this weekend, but just one mile away, this year's boogeyman was having a coming-out party of its own. Three leaders of the "alt-right," Richard Spencer, Peter Brimelow and Jared Taylor, held a lengthy news conference to unveil a hip logo (based on Spencer's "synthwave nostalgia") and field questions about what buzzed-about "racialists" really wanted from American politics.
There's no equivalency between the two groups. Taylor and Spencer, like many on the alt-right, believe in the relative superiority of different races; social conservatives believe that adherence to traditional Judeo-Christian values would bring about harmony. As the Daily Beast's Betsy Woodruff prodded Spencer into admitting, the "utopian" alt-right state would include European whites but no Jews...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/four-lessons-from-the-alt-right’s-dc-coming-out-party/ar-AAiKtnM?li=BBnb7Kz
11 / 27
The Washington Post
David Weigel12 hrs ago
College football's Week 2 winners and losers
© Photo by Pete Marovich For The Washington Post White nationalist writer Jared Taylor in his home in Oakton, Virginia.
Ten years ago, for the first time, a constellation of social conservative organizations gathered in Washington for the Values Voter Summit. The event's name was a bit of an in-joke — "values voters," identified for the first (and only) time in the 2004 election exit poll, went solidly for President George W. Bush. After the election, panicked liberals identified social conservatives as the greatest threat to their own values, dubbing them"Christofascists," mocking red states as "Jesusland," and reading books with titles like"Kingdom Coming,""Rapture Ready" and "Republican Gomorrah."
The Values Voter Summit met again this weekend, but just one mile away, this year's boogeyman was having a coming-out party of its own. Three leaders of the "alt-right," Richard Spencer, Peter Brimelow and Jared Taylor, held a lengthy news conference to unveil a hip logo (based on Spencer's "synthwave nostalgia") and field questions about what buzzed-about "racialists" really wanted from American politics.
There's no equivalency between the two groups. Taylor and Spencer, like many on the alt-right, believe in the relative superiority of different races; social conservatives believe that adherence to traditional Judeo-Christian values would bring about harmony. As the Daily Beast's Betsy Woodruff prodded Spencer into admitting, the "utopian" alt-right state would include European whites but no Jews...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/four-lessons-from-the-alt-right’s-dc-coming-out-party/ar-AAiKtnM?li=BBnb7Kz