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    What is the Alternative Right? Part One

    by Greg Johnson



    https://www.counter-currents.com/201...-1/#more-86560
    http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...8769#post18769
    http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...8769#post18769



    3,536 words

    Part 1 of 4

    Author’s Note: This is the opening essay of a forthcoming anthology called The Alternative Right.

    The Alternative Right does not have an essence, but it does have a story, a story that begins and ends with Richard Spencer. The story has four chapters.

    First the term “Alternative Right” was coined in 2008. Then the Alternative Right webzine was launched on March 1, 2010 and ran until December 25, 2013. When it was first coined, the Alternative Right simply referred to an alternative to the American conservative mainstream. When it became the name of a publication, it functioned as a broad umbrella term encompassing such schools of thought as paleoconservatism, libertarianism, race-realism, the European New Right, Southern Nationalism, and White Nationalism. By the time the Alternative Right webzine was shut down, however, the term Alt Right had taken on a life of its own. It was not just the name of a webzine, but a generic term for Right-wing alternatives to the conservative mainstream.

    The second chapter is the emergence in 2015 of a vital, youth-oriented, largely online Right-wing movement. This movement encompassed a wide range of opinions from White Nationalism and outright neo-Nazism to populism and American civic nationalism. Thus this movement quite naturally gravitated to the broad generic term Alt Right. The new Alt Right threw itself behind Donald Trump’s run for the presidency soon after he entered the race in 2015 and became increasingly well-known as Trump’s most ferocious defenders in online battles, to the point that Hillary Clinton actually gave a speech attacking the Alt Right on August 25, 2016.

    The third chapter is the Alt Right “brand war” of the fall of 2016. The Alt Right “brand” had become so popular that it was being widely adopted by Trumpian civic nationalists, who rejected the racism of White Nationalists. White Nationalists began to worry that their brand was being coopted and started to push back against the civic nationalists. The brand war ended on November 21, 2016 at a National Policy Institute conference with the incident known as Hailgate, in which Richard Spencer uttered the words “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” and raised his whiskey glass in a toast, to which some people in the audience responded with Hitler salutes. When video of this went public, civic nationalists quickly abandoned the Alt Right brand, and the “Alt Lite” was born.

    The fourth chapter is the story of the centralization and decline of the Alt Right, largely under the control of Richard Spencer. This period was characterized by polarization and purges, as well as the attempt to transform the Alt Right from an online to a real-world movement, which culminated at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11–12, 2017. Both trends led the Alt Right to shrink considerably. Some abandoned the brand. Others abandoned the entire movement. The remnant has retreated back to its strongholds on the internet. As of this writing, there is no fifth chapter, and the Alt Right’s future, if any, remains to be seen. Like cancer, there may be no stage five.

    1. The Invention of a Brand

    The Alternative Right brand first emerged in the fuzzy space where the paleoconservative movement overlaps with White Nationalism. The term “paleoconservatism” was coined by Paul Gottfried, an American Jewish political theorist and commentator. Paleoconservatism defined itself as a genuinely conservative opposition to the heresy of neoconservatism.

    The paleoconservative movement was a safe space for the discussion and advocacy of everything that neoconservatism sought to abolish from the conservative movement: Christianity, tradition, America’s white identity, an America-first foreign policy, immigration restriction, opposition to globalization and free trade, the defense of traditional/biological sexual roles and institutions, and even—although mostly behind closed doors—biological race differences and the Jewish question.

    Aside from Gottfried, the leading paleocons included Samuel Francis, who openly associated with White Nationalists; Joseph Sobran, who was purged from National Review for anti-Semitism and who also openly associated with White Nationalists; and Patrick Buchanan, who stayed closer to the political mainstream but was eventually purged from MSNBC for “racism” because his book Suicide of a Superpower defended the idea of the United States as a normatively white society.

    William H. Regnery II (b. 1941) is a crucial figure in the rise of the Alt Right because of his work in creating institutional spaces in which paleoconservatives and White Nationalists could exchange ideas. Lazy journalists repeatedly refer to Regnery as a “publishing heir.” In fact, his money came from his grandfather William H. Regnery’s textile business. The conservative Regnery Publishing house was founded by Henry Regnery, the son of William H. Regnery and the uncle of William H. Regnery II. (In 1993, the Regnery family sold Regnery Publishing to Phillips Publishing International.)

    In 1999–2001, William H. Regnery II played a key role in founding the Charles Martel Society, which publishes the quarterly journal The Occidental Quarterly, currently edited by Kevin MacDonald. In 2004–2005, Regnery spearheaded the foundation of the National Policy Institute, which was originally conceived as a vehicle for Sam Francis, who died in February of 2005. NPI was run by Louis R. Andrews until 2011, when Richard Spencer took over. Both the Charles Martel Society and the National Policy Institute are White Nationalist in orientation. The Occidental Quarterly is also openly anti-Semitic.

    But at the same time Regnery was involved with CMS and NPI, he was also working with Jewish paleocon Paul Gottfried to create two academic Rightist groups that were friendly to Jews. First, there was the Academy of Philosophy and Letters,[1] of which Richard Spencer was reportedly a member.[2] But Regnery and Gottfried broke with the Academy of Philosophy and Letters over the issue of race, creating the H. L. Mencken Club, which Gottfried runs to this day.[3] The Mencken Club, like the Charles Martel Society and NPI, is a meeting ground for paleoconservatives and White Nationalists, although it is also friendly to Jews.

    Richard Spencer began as a paleoconservative, entered Regnery’s sphere of influence, and emerged a White Nationalist. In 2007, Spencer dropped out of Duke University, where he was pursuing a Ph.D. in modern European intellectual history. From March to December of 2007, Spencer was an assistant editor at The American Conservative, a paleoconservative magazine founded in 2002 by Scott McConnell, Patrick Buchanan, and Taki Theodoracopulos in opposition to the neocon-instigated Iraq War. By the time Spencer arrived, however, Buchanan and Taki had departed. After being fired from The American Conservative, Spencer went to work for Taki, editing his online magazine Taki’s Top Drawer, later Taki’s Magazine, from January of 2008 to December of 2009. Taki thought his magazine was stagnant under Spencer’s editorship, so they parted ways. With money raised through Regnery’s network, Richard Spencer launched a new webzine, Alternative Right (alternativeright.com) on March 1, 2010.

    The phrase “alternative right” first appeared at Taki’s Magazine under Spencer’s editorship. On December 1, 2008, Spencer published Paul Gottfried’s “The Decline and Rise of the Alternative Right,” originally given as an address at that year’s H. L. Mencken Club conference in November. Spencer claims credit for the title and thus the phrase “alternative right,” while Gottfried claims that they co-created it.[4] The Alternative Right in decline is, of course, the paleoconservative movement. The Alternative Right on the rise is the more youthful post-paleo movement crystallizing at the Mencken Club and allied forums. The Alternative Right webzine was to be their flagship.

    The Alternative Right webzine had an attractive design and got off to a strong start. I particularly respected Spencer’s decision to publish Steve McNallen and Jack Donovan, important writers who were anathema to Christians and paleocons. But after about six months, the site seemed to lose energy. Days would go by without new material, which is the key to building regular traffic, and matters were not helped by the site layout. Instead of simply putting new material at the top of a blog roll, the site had a host of departments, so one had to click six or eight links to discover that there was no new material. After doing this for a couple of weeks, readers would stop coming, waiting to hear about new material by email or on social media. By the beginning of 2012, Spencer had lost interest in editing the webzine. On May 3, 2012, he stepped down and handed the editorship to Andy Nowicki and Colin Liddell.

    However, in 2013, Spencer was embarrassed by negative press coverage of one of Liddell’s articles and realized that he would always be linked to Alternative Right, even though he no longer had control of its contents. On Christmas day of 2013, Spencer shut Alternative Right down without consulting or warning Nowicki and Liddell. The domain address was repointed to Spencer’s new webzine, Radix Journal, which would never become a household name. Then, after another strong start, Radix too slumped into a low-energy site.

    Nearly four years of articles and comments at Alternative Right—the collective contributions of hundreds of people—simply vanished from the web. Nowicki and Liddell salvaged what they could and carried on with the Alternative Right brand at blogspot.com, although their site had few readers and little influence. In 2018, embarrassed by the decline of the Alt Right brand, they changed the name to Affirmative Right.

    Spencer’s greatest mistake in shutting down Alternative Right was not his high-handed manner, which caused a good deal of bitterness, but the fact that he pulled the plug after its name had become a generic term. Just as the brand “Xerox” became a term for photocopying in general, the brand “Hoover” became a verb for vacuuming in general, Sony’s “Walkman” became a generic term for portable cassette players, and “iPod” became a generic term for portable mp3 players, the Alt Right had become a generic term for a whole range of radical alternatives to mainstream conservatism. Imagine Xerox rebranding with a weird sounding Latinate name like Effingo once it had become synonymous with its entire industry.

    The beauty of the Alt Right brand is that it signaled dissidence from the mainstream Right, without committing oneself to such stigmatized ideas as White Nationalism and National Socialism. As I put it in an article hailing Alternative Right to my readers at TOQ Online:


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    What is the Alternative Right? Part Two

    What is the Alternative Right? Part Two


    https://www.counter-currents.com/201...-right-part-2/
    http://christian-identity.net/forum/...8911#post18911
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      What is the Alternative Right? Part Three

      What is the Alternative Right? Part Three


      https://www.counter-currents.com/201...-right-part-3/
      http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...8909#post18909



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        What is the Alternative Right? Part Three


        https://www.counter-currents.com/201...-right-part-3/
        http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...8929#post18929



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        • #5
          Age of Cringe:
          Alt-Right: Age of Rage



          https://www.counter-currents.com/201...ge/#more-90379
          http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...9352#post19352



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          • #6
            Shitskin Makes Documentary About Alt Kike

            Shitskin Makes Documentary About Alt Kike


            http://www.voiceofretards.com/blog/s...bout-alt-kike/
            http://christian-identity.net/forum/...9354#post19354
            http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...9354#post19354



            This is a video that Martin posted in my chat. It’s about the Alt Kike. GRIDS Grindr Greggy is still crying about his beloved homo butt fuck fest, the Alt Kike, that Dickie Spenther ruined, LMAO. That’s literally all that’s going on in the movement. We are in a transition period from the very gay, jew coontrolled opposition Bowel Movement 1.0 & 2.0 to something more real.

            Whiggers know now after Charlottesville that peaceful assembly is impossible. ZOG will not go quietly into the night, and Daddy Boomer Traitor Drumpf is not going to save their whigger ass either. Nothing left to do but expose ZOG lies, let ZOG get weaker, and wait for the collapse. Martin is talking prion poisoning, LOL. I don’t see anyone dying from that yet, and wonder if it’s even real. Only time will tell. Keep your powder dry.

            The video features Nigger Daryl Lamont Jenkins, who is crying like a typical inferior that SOMEONE needs to fight all these Nazis. God knows, fat retarded nigger Jenkins won’t be doing any fighting. The video is actually a good history, somewhat, of the Alt Kike/Lite. Dickie Spenther gets lots of good promotion here, but his essential FAGGOTNESS shines through. The tard can’t hide it. Dickie is also shown drinking, LMAO. They interview other figures in the movement as well. GRIDS Grindr is pissed he’s not included.

            What you’re going to learn from this documentary, which is actually pretty good, is that Bowel Movement leaders only know how to flap their gums. Drumpf has helped whiggers see through all these bullshit artists, who are all talk and no action. They don’t accomplish anything. All these fags, left or right, want someone else to do all the work, so they can take all the credit, and play tinpot dictator. What’s interesting is seeing all these old interviews and clips and seeing how much of a fraud all these tards are.

            One significant FACT to take away from this video is that it’s not just a smear job. That means the “extreme” right is being taken more seriously. They are too scared to just produce a hit piece, like in the past. They present both sides fairly. Which means we are gaining ground. Jew Rat Potok of the SPLC seems tense and scared as hell.

            Someone was saying it looks like Dickie is drinking again. They said his face looked pockmarked, bloated and red in a recent podcast, LMAO. So I include that video below. Dickie looks horrible. The guy also says that Dickie has been missing scheduled podcasts. So, he might be a real mess.

            The left pretty much reveals its hand by asking why the Alt Kike doesn’t just give up. I knew these tards are trying to win by just cumplaining and hoping whiggers cuck out.

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            As for the interview footage of Taylor and Spencer, I thought both men did admirable jobs. They made telling points with eloquence and sincerity. I was particularly impressed at the end, when both Spencer and Taylor answer the question of whether or not white demographic decline depresses them and makes them want to give up. Spencer offers an excellent rebuttal that I use as well: white demographic decline is precisely what is driving the rise of white identity politics. Taylor responds by arguing that he does not act based on calculations of outcomes but out of duty to his ancestors and his descendants. Still, he believes he can win.
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            Good Video That Shows How Scared Antifa Are. WINNING
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