"Hipster Nazis" = Alt Right. Good article from Slate

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How the “Hipster Nazis” of the Alt Right Got Big Enough for Hillary Clinton to Denounce Them

Euro-style white nationalism has come to America and found an unlikely standard-bearer in Donald Trump.



The white nationalist Richard Spencer was on vacation in Japan when he learned that Hillary Clinton was planning to give a speech about Donald Trump’s ties to the so-called alt right, and he was thrilled. “It’s hugely significant,” Spencer told me by Skype from Kyoto. “When a presidential candidate—and indeed the presidential candidate who is leading in most polls—talks about your movement directly, I think you can safely say that you’ve made it.”

Spencer, a clean-cut 38-year-old, loves publicity. He hung around last month’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland with a sign saying, “Wanna Talk to a ‘Racist’?” He is president and director of the National Policy Institute, described on its website as “dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world.” He coined the term alternative right, founding the website alternativeright.com in 2010, which has since morphed into the highbrow racist RadixJournal.com. “The alt right has really become the banner for European identity politics in the United States and around the world,” he said. Spencer agrees with Clinton about very little, but he agrees with her about this: Understanding the alt right is important to understanding Trump’s rise.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/08/why_hillary_clinton_is_talking_about_donald_trump_and_the_alt_right.html

For the alt right, a movement nurtured on internet message boards and websites full of obscure in-group jargon, such a high-profile denunciation is a big deal. The white nationalist website VDARE is already fundraising off the speech. Yet it is Trump, not Clinton, who has given the alt right unprecedented political relevance. It’s not just that he’s a hero to the movement. He has actively helped expand its reach. He retweets white supremacist accounts and echoes alt-right rhetoric about America’s devolution into a violent mongrel hellscape, besieged by immigrants from without and crime and disorder from within. Trump shares the alt right’s respect for Vladimir Putin, admired by many in the alt right as the leader of what Spencer calls “a powerful white empire.” (By contrast, said Spencer, the countries of NATO are “cucked nations”—cuck being a favorite alt-right insult, invoking white men who are cuckolded by black men.) Trump’s comparisons of Clinton to Angela Merkel might have puzzled many Americans—Germany’s chancellor isn’t a household name here—but as ThinkProgress reported, white supremacists who revile Merkel for her policy on migrants have been making the same connection for months.

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1. people fucking crazy nt