The backlash against the alt right after Charlottesville hurt many of its leading spokespeople but has not resulted, as some have claimed, in a decline in the movement as a whole. As the alt right received increased media scrutiny-in large part due to its own actions, such as the violence at Charlottesville-the alt right experienced dissension and disunity in its own right, including the departure of many extremists who did not advocate explicit white supremacy (the so-called “alt lite”). The alt right also expanded its online propaganda efforts, especially through podcasting. After the election, the alt right moved from online activism into the real world, forming real-world groups and organizations and engaging in tactics such as targeting college campuses.The alt right interpreted Trump’s success at the polls in November 2016 as a success for their own movement as well. This activism drew media attention that provided publicity for the alt right and allowed it to grow further. Though aspects of the alt right date back to 2008, it was Donald Trump’s entry in 2015 into the 2016 presidential race that really energized the alt right and caused it to become highly active in support of Trump.The alt right also possesses its own distinct subculture, derived especially from the misogynists of the so-called “manosphere” and from online discussion forums such as 4chan, 8chan and Reddit. The alt right has a white supremacist ideology heavily influenced by a number of sources, including paleoconservatism, neo-Nazism and fascism, identitarianism, renegade conservatives and right-wing conspiracy theorists.Youth-oriented and overwhelmingly male, the alt right has provided new energy to the movement, but has also been a destabilizing force, much as racist skinheads were to the movement in the 1980s and early 1990s. The white supremacist resurgence is driven in large part by the rise of the alt right, the newest segment of the white supremacist movement. White supremacists believe that almost any action is justified if it will help “save” the white race.
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