A Guide to the Alt-Right, Modern White Supremacists Bolstering Trump
Southern Poverty Law Center
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The Alternative Right is a term coined in 2008 by Richard Bertrand Spencer. Spencer describes Alt-Right adherents as younger people, often recent college graduates, who recognize the “uselessness of mainstream conservatism” in what he describes as a “hyper-racialized” world. So it’s no surprise that the movement in 2015 and 2016 concentrated on opposing immigration and the resettlement of Syrian refugees in America.
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