History of how the paleoconservative movement became today's socalled "alt right"

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History of how the paleoconservative movement became today's socalled "alt right"

Very interesting discussion of how the so-called Paleoconservative movement of Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis, Paul Craig Roberts, the Spotlight Newspaper, etc, became what the media and the establishment pejoratively refers to as the "alt right" and went from marginalization to helping put Trump in the Oval Office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrgT6Bv7In0

 

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The speaker rightly acknowledges that paleoconservatism was pretty much dead as a political force by the late 2000s.

Personally, I had given up that it had any hope in the US and was supporting Ron Paul in 2008 and 2012, despite disagreeing with him on many core beliefs. I was pinning my hopes on nationalist parties in Europe and other parts of the world, as well as alternative culture in the US to create a minority alternative to the mainstream.

As the speaker points out, this new generation of young internet savy "alt rightists" were emerging and reinvigorating the movement without much attention. While I was familiar with kooky alternative movements like David Icke, even I didn't really know about this phenomena of the alternative populist movement that was emerging.

The speaker said the goal for the post-paleo nationalist movement was to move beyond the fringes and actually displace neo-con control of the GOP and marginalize them. That appears to be the phase we are in now, and is obviously not yet complete. Trump's victory was just ahead of what anyone could have predicted, but it means the fight has just begun.