- Joined
- Oct 8, 2015
People forget that the term "alt-right" was basically unused by anyone in the media or online before Hillary Clinton used it in a speech in August, 2016. No one had ever used the term on /pol/ or /pol/ adjacent sites to refer to themselves. The speech that introduced it into popular culture was about how Trump was sparking white supremacy and far-right extremism across America, What a coincidence! Then Richard Spencer who had zero connection to 4chan claimed he invented the term got pegged as the leader.I used to listen a lot to Richard lewis in the mid 2010's and he always said that only an idiot would embrace the alt-right as the new collective term. As it didnt have an established identity and was carte blanche for the media to smear resonable people who didn't want to tow the party line as neo-nazis.