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The right has been all the same for years now. I haven't used alt-right in 7 years - since about a week after Charlottesville. I call everything on the right - right-wingers or right-wing.
I think alt-right is a pretty useless and outdated term, and I whenever I hear it I usually assume the person using it must've not paid attention to politics after the last election cycle. But there is a small sliver of truth that the American right has a militant wing and a political wing, with the militant wing having merged existing elements of white supremacist gangs and police (but I repeat myself) with newly radicalized boogaloo boys, proud boys, groypers, atomwaffen, etc. The political wing maintains loose coupling with the militant wing (and of course, the FBI manipulates individual groups to hit targets they desire) to keep plausible deniability.
Yeah the whole western internet-right defending the nazis at that event really showed me how little distinction there is between all of them. They're all evil, self-righteous fascists when it comes down to it. And libs will make excuses for the fascists as usual.
When Charlottesville I was a new leftist. I wondered if Trump's election warped my thinking so that my interest in leftism was temporary and would wither away. But Charlottesville made me be 100% certain I had left liberalism behind. Out of curiosity - I googled some GOP pols to see what they said. They made all the appropriate comments about racism, Nazis, and violence having no place in American life. I knew they didn't mean it but at least they said it.
What made me want to projectile vomit surprised me. It was a tweet by Obama - Mr. Liberalism himself. I soon learned it was the most liked tweet ever. It hit all the right notes in a picture perfect manner. In an oblique way it mentioned hate, racism, more importantly it mentioned love, it name-checked Nelson Mandela, and Obama inserted himself into all that with a photo of himself.
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In my bones - deep in my bones - I knew that liberals would never actually do anything about fascism. Instead they'd give speeches as a pantomime of action and their base would eat it up.
That's funny that was about the same time the switch flipped for me too. I was purging reactionary shit from my youtube feed (I was big into breadtube stuff, contrapoints, philosophy tube, some more news etc) and I went to bed watching some video essay.
When I awoke, autoplay had served up a chapo traphouse episode in my feed and I had never heard them before and I wasn't sure if they were chuds or leftists but I was too lazy to get up and too compelled to keep listening to them shit on liberals in a compelling manner when I heard this
Wow I think that might have also been from the first episode of chapo I listened to, after being drawn into/r/cth and wondering what the podcast was about
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: