Etiqueta: George Hawley
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Making Sense of the Alt-Right
During the 2016 election, a new term entered the American political lexicon: the «alt-right,» short for «alternative right.» Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech-savvy, obsessed with provocation and trolling, amorphous, predominantly online, and mostly anonymous. And it was energized…