Rising fascism in the US

These people?

Typical instance of attempting to smear a whole crowd of people with "guilt by association."

We should listen to all those people who claim that the alt-right has nothing to do with racism, Nazism or white supremacy. Right?

That would be fair.

You refer to "THE alt.right." What is it? Robert Spencer, or whatever his name is? Did you even listen to the video where this Milo guy, who "wrote the book" on what the alt.right is, explains it?

If not, then try responding to what is actually said rather than just reiterating your absurd cheese-eatin left-wing garbage.

Small, smug minds

He doesn't get it and doesn't understand, but his curiosity is satisfied

georgeob1 wrote:

He doesn't get it and doesn't understand, but his curiosity is satisfied

George, what's your opinion on what happened at the annual conference of the National Policy Institute, right there atthe Ronald Reagan Building in the capital of the United States?

No reason for concern?

This guy, as a presumed authority on the topic, is pressed, at length, to describe what the "alt.right" means, and he doesn't say anything like Spencer. Go figure, eh?

Time for some honesty. Women are — and you won’t hear this anywhere else — screwing up the internet for men by invading every space we have online and ruining it with attention-seeking and a needy, demanding, touchy-feely form of modern feminism that quickly comes into conflict with men’s natural tendency to be boisterous, confrontational and delightfully autistic.

Stephen K. Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, whom Mr. Trump has picked as his chief White House strategist, told an interviewer in July that he considered Breitbart a “platform for the alt-right.” Perhaps we should not make too much of this. Mr. Bannon may have meant something quite different by the term. Last summer “alt-right,” though it carried overtones of extremism, was not an outright synonym for ideologies like Mr. Spencer’s. But in late August, Hillary Clinton devoted a speech to the alt-right, calling it simply a new label for an old kind of white supremacy that Mr. Trump was shamelessly exploiting....

Until Hillary Clinton’s speech last summer, a similarly broad idea prevailed of what the alt-right was. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s webpage on the movement traces some of its roots to libertarian followers of Ron Paul and traditionalist Christians... Understood this way, the alt-right did look as if it might be a pillar of Mr. Bannon’s world Tea Party.

Not even the former Breitbart editor at large Ben Shapiro, who has become an energetic critic of Mr. Bannon and his agenda, says that Mr. Bannon is himself a racist or an anti-Semite. Mr. Shapiro considers fears that Mr. Bannon will bring white nationalism to the White House “overstated, at the very least.”

Resorting to cheap, transparent sophistry, Clinton (1) falsely equated the term "alt.right" with "white supremacy" and then (2) portrayed Bannon (and hence Trump) as reflective of that, simply because Bannon had used the same term in an entirely different sense.

If she didn't fool anyone else, she certainly fooled her supporters (which includes virtually the entire media). But I don't think the media was "fooled" at all. They, like her, saw this formula for smearing Trump with cynically amoral sophistry as being a useful tool for misleading others.

Small, smug minds don't require much information to achieve certainty. Evidently old europe sees overtones of the european Hitler in Trump. He doesn't get it and doesn't understand, but his curiosity is satisfied

What warrants a block from our next president? Sometimes all it takes is a puerile jab from a high schooler.

Antonio Del Otero, 16, said he was blocked after replying to one of Trump's tweets by likening the president-elect to a Cheetos snack.

"I didn't believe it at first," said Del Otero, a Detroit resident who has since deleted the offending tweet because he caught the ire of Trump supporters online. "I didn't know what to think. I see this guy all over the news and he must have seen my tweet and blocked me. I was really shocked, but my grandma was thrilled."

Though a fervent Trump detractor who uses an expletive on his Twitter page to denounce the incoming president, Del Otero is still hopeful he'll be unblocked after inauguration day, figuring staff members will eventually take over the presidential account with a clean slate.

"If not, it's just as much an honor to be blocked by the 45th president of the United States," said Del Otero, a member of his high school class council.

It appears to me that the issues you are raising are trivial in the extreme. Even today's urbanized world is big enough for a little, quite natural, variation.

Contemporary doctrines of political correctitude are not only tedious and tiresome, they are also quite intolerant of dissent or deviance in any form. It is a regression in the quality of our civilization.

Odd that you endorse it so vociferously.