The Alt-Right: What Everyone Needs to Know®

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The Alt-Right
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Contents
Introduction
1 What Is the Alt-​Right, and Where Did It Come From?
	What Is this Book’s Purpose?
	What Is the Alt-​Right?
	What Are the Core Principles of the Alt-​Right?
	Is Alt-​Right Just Another Word for White Nationalism?
	What Is White Nationalism?
	What Is Anti-​Semitism?
	Is the Alt-​Right Misogynist?
	What Terms Does the Alt-​Right Use to Describe Itself?
	What Words Should the Rest of Us Use When Discussing the Alt-​Right?
	If the Alt-​Right Is Ultimately About Racism, Why Does This Book Discuss Many Nonracist Movements and Ideologies?
	How Did the Alt-​Right Begin?
	Who Is Richard Spencer?
	How Did the Alt-​Right Revive?
	How Large Is the Alt-​Right?
	What Does the Alt-​Right Do?
	How Does the Alt-​Right Recruit?
	What Events Led People to Join the Alt-​Right?
	Do Alt-​Right Supporters Have a Psychological Profile?
2 “White Nationalism 1.0”: The Movement’s Predecessors
	What Is White Nationalism 1.0?
	How Were Racist Movements Traditionally Organized?
	What Is the Ku Klux Klan?
	Who Was Francis Parker Yockey?
	Who Was George Lincoln Rockwell, and What Was the American Nazi Party?
	Who Was Revilo P. Oliver?
	What Are Skinhead Gangs?
	Who Is Tom Metzger?
	Who Was William Pierce, and What Is the National Alliance?
	What Was The Turner Diaries?
	What Was The Order?
	What Is the Militia Movement?
	What Does 1488 Mean?
	What Is the National Socialist Movement?
	What Is the Christian Identity Movement?
	What Was Aryan Nations?
	What Is the Northwest Front?
	What Is the Church of the Creator?
	What Does RaHoWa Mean?
	What Does ZOG Mean?
	What Is the Atomwaffen Division?
	Who Is David Duke?
	What Is the Neo-​Confederate Movement?
	What Is Highbrow White Nationalism?
	Who Is Jared Taylor, and What Is American Renaissance?
	What Is the White Nationalist Attitude Toward Popular Culture?
	Were Earlier White Nationalists Part of a Global Movement, or Were They Primarily Focused in the United States?
	What Were the Divides Within Twentieth-​Century White Nationalism?
	Is the Alt-​Right Just an Outgrowth of White Nationalism 1.0?
	What Does the Alt-​Right Think of White Nationalism 1.0?
	Is the Alt-​Right Really That Distinct from White Nationalism 1.0?
3 Racist Movements Abroad and the Alt-​Right
	How Do Far-​Right Movements in Europe Differ from Those in the United States?
	What Is Fascism?
	Who Is Alain de Benoist, and What Is the European New Right?
	Who Is Guillaume Faye?
	What Is Traditionalism?
	What Is the North American New Right?
	What Is the Identitarian Movement?
	Is There Cooperation Between the Alt-​Right in America and the Far Right in Europe?
	Is There a Connection Between the Alt-​Right and Russia?
4 Other Influences on the Alt-​Right
	What Is Populism?
	How Populist Is the Alt-​Right?
	What Is Neoreaction?
	What Is Paleoconservatism?
	What Is Libertarianism?
	What Are the Connections Between Libertarianism and the Alt-​Right?
	Who Was Murray Rothbard?
	Who Is Hans-​Hermann Hoppe?
	What Was the Progressive Movement of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries?
	What Is Race Realism?
	What Is the Men’s Rights Movement?
	What Was Gamergate?
5 The Alt-​Right and the Internet
	Why Is the Internet So Important to White Nationalists?
	What Is Stormfront?
	Who Was Bob Whitaker, and What Is “the Mantra”?
	What Is a Troll?
	Why Does the Alt-​Right Troll?
	What Is a Meme?
	How Does the Alt-​Right Use Memes?
	What Is the (((Echoes))) Meme?
	What Is the Red Pill?
	What Is Pepe the Frog?
	What Is a Normie, and How Does the Alt-​Right Apply the Term?
	What Is 4chan?
	What Is Twitter, and Why Is It Useful to the Alt-​Right?
	How Has Twitter Tried to Limit the Alt-​Right’s Influence?
	What Are the Most Important Alt-​Right Forums?
	Who Is Andrew Anglin, and What Is The Daily Stormer?
	What Is The Right Stuff?
6 The Alt-​Right Offline
	Who Funds the Alt-​Right?
	What Is the National Policy Institute?
	What Are the Major Alt-​Right Conferences?
	Who Is Matthew Heimbach, and What Was the Traditionalist Worker Party?
	What Is Identity Evropa?
	What Was the “Unite the Right” Rally?
	What Were the Consequences of the “Unite the Right” Rally?
	What Is the Alt-​Right Corporation?
	Are There Alt-​Right Politicians?
	What Is the “Mainstream Versus Vanguard” Debate?
7 The Alt-​Right and Conservatism
	What Does It Mean to Be Right Wing?
	What Is Conservatism?
	Is Conservatism a Universalist Ideology?
	How Did Conservatives Conquer the Republican Party?
	What Is Neoconservatism?
	How Have Conservatives Dealt with Racial Issues?
	What Has Been Conservatism’s Response to Open Racism in Its Ranks?
	Can the Conservative Movement Still Control Right-​Wing Discourse in the United States?
	What Does the Alt-​Right Think of the Conservative Movement?
	What Is the Alt-​Right’s Stance on the Religious Right?
	How Does the Alt-​Right Differ from Conservatism on Foreign Policy?
	What Are the Alt-​Right’s Views on Economics?
	What Does the Alt-​Right Mean by Cuckservative?
	How Have Conservatives Responded to the Alt-​Right?
	Can the Alt-​Right Copy the Conservative Model and Take Over the Republican Party?
8 The Alt-​Right and Donald Trump
	Can Donald Trump Be Classified as Alt-​Right?
	Does Donald Trump Even Have a Consistent Ideology?
	Why Was the Alt-​Right So Energized by Donald Trump?
	How Has President Trump Responded to His Support from the Alt-​Right?
	What Does the Alt-​Right Think of Donald Trump Today?
	What Was the Significance of Hillary Clinton’s “Alt-​Right Speech”?
	Are There Alt-​Right Sympathizers in the Trump White House?
9 The Alt-​Lite
	What Is Meant by Alt-​Lite?
	How Is the Alt-​Lite Different from the Alt-​Right?
	What Is the New Right?
	What Is Breitbart News?
	Who Is Steve Bannon?
	Who Is Milo Yiannopoulos?
	Who Is Mike Cernovich?
	Who Is Gavin McInnes, and Who Are The Proud Boys?
	What Is InfoWars?
	What Is the Relationship Between the Alt-​Lite and the Alt-​Right?
	Does the Alt-​Lite Help the Alt-​Right?
10 Combating the Alt-​Right
	What Is Doxing?
	Is Doxing Effective?
	What Is No-​Platforming?
	Are There Any Risks to No-​Platforming?
	What Is Alt-​Tech?
	What about Efforts That Try to Persuade Individuals to Leave Hate Groups?
	What Is Antifa?
	Are Lawsuits an Effective Tool Against the Extreme Right?
	How Worried Should We Really Be?
Notes
Additional Readings
Index