Why Donald Trump Can't and Won't Condemn the Murderous and Violent "Alt-Right"

[sheshe2]

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The "alt-right" is the tip of the spear, and a distillation of the social pathologies and broken civic culture that elected Donald Trump. In essence, the "alt-right" provides the shock troops, and arguably the ideological vanguard, for Trump's and the Republican Party's white identity movement.

What do we know about white supremacists and other members of the so-called "alt-right" movement? A recent working paper titled, "A Psychological Profile of the Alt-Right" by psychologists Patrick Forscher and Nour Kteily offers some preliminary answers.

They are overwhelmingly white and male.

They exhibit the "dark triad" of personality traits which are Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy.

They are radicalized online first through appeals to misogyny and sexism and the lie that white men are "oppressed." From that "men's rights" indoctrination, these white men are then socialized into white supremacy.

They possess little if any reluctance to use violence to obtain their personal and political goals.They are motivated by racism and not the much discussed and incorrect narrative of "economic anxiety."

They are not "lone wolves" or isolated, stereotypical "losers."

They dehumanize other groups, especially black people, and also believe that white people should have special collective rights and privileges.

Read More: http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2018/02/why-donald-trump-cant-and-wont-condemn.html

Frightening. This is Donald and the GOP. Their followers.

[Cha]

1. trump is one of them,she

[sheshe2]

3. Yep.

He is the leader of the band, Cha.

Trumpism is a toxic mix of social-dominance behavior, racial authoritarianism, misogyny, nativism, violence, white supremacy and a hostility towards an increasingly pluralistic and cosmopolitan world.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I read this article from last Aug about the alt-right

and their psychological make up. It wasn't as surprising as much as it was validating what I already expected and presumed about this type of person's mindset.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/15/16144070/psychology-alt-right

[Gothmog]

4. The alt right is trump's base