The Alt-Right Is All Wrong
When Anderson Cooper asked Trump on Thursday if he was embracing the alt-right movement, Trump replied like a perfectly oblivious vessel: “I don’t even know — nobody even knows what it is.”
In the same way that the neocons used the uninformed W. as a host body to instigate the Iraq war, the alt-right has staged an Occupy Trump movement, purloining his unmoored campaign as brazenly as cat burglars.
.. Extremists always ride to Hillary’s rescue.
.. so the alt-right allows Hillary to have an easy target that occludes the Clintons’ own transgressions.
.. It’s a symbiotic relationship: The Clintons benefit, hailed by many Democrats and Republicans who regard them as the white hats who will keep out brownshirts. And the alt-right is jubilant at being given a bigger platform to be sulfurous.
.. The only one who doesn’t benefit is Trump, who has been seduced by the roar of the crowd and hijacked by a dark force he doesn’t seem to fathom. Ultimately, the stain will extend beyond a campaign loss to damage his business brand.
.. Hillary is more easily able to continue to cold-shoulder the press on serious issues, which really is an outrage and will hurt her in the end, because she’s building up a giant bubble of hostility that will follow her into the White House.