CPAC organizer denounces alt-right as left-wing fascist group
Source: Washington Post
CPAC organizer denounces alt-right as left-wing fascist group
By David Weigel February 23 at 11:56 AM
One of the first speeches at this years Conservative Political Action Conference challenged the media to stop referring to the alt-right, a small, far-right movement that seeks a whites-only state and that strongly backed Donald Trump for president, as conservative.
There is a sinister organization that is trying to warp its way into our ranks, said Dan Schneider, the executive director of the American Conservative Union, which runs CPAC. We must not be deceived by [a] hateful, left-wing fascist group.
Over a few confusing minutes, Schneider argued that the alt-right, a term coined then popularized by the National Policy Institutes Richard Spencer, was philosophically left-wing because it departed from his definition of conservatism, in which the individual is sovereign. ... They hate the Constitution. They hate free markets. They hate pluralism, Schneider said. Fascists tend to want big government control.
The argument wasnt unique in Liberal Fascism, the National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg drew a zigging line from the fascism of the 1930s to the welfare state liberalism of the Clinton/Obama era. But it made little impact in the conferences main ballroom, and a few listeners walked out.
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Yes, really.
Don't miss the video of Richard Spencer being asked to leave.
Hat tip, Google News.
lapucelle
(18,378 posts)Does the alt-right know that it's actually the left-right?
Asshats. I can't say it enough.
Gman
(24,780 posts)If they thought alt-right ideology would make money they would be in it like a chicken on a June Bug.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Schneider's view of what conservatism is MEANS NOTHING!
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,509 posts)raging moderate
(4,314 posts)Mussolini made this clear, with his image of several fasces (bindings) tying up the instruments of power. As CPAP is illustrating, however, fascists typically have trouble mustering the necessary cooperation to achieve this result, since they usually are people who have trouble playing nicely with others. This is a sign of hope for the world.
RussBLib
(9,055 posts)and right-wingers are pretty easy to confuse
randr
(12,418 posts)and now can't flick it off fast enough.
Blue Idaho
(5,065 posts)In the world of Donald Trump and fake news outlets like Breitbart and InfoWars up is down and left is right. It's a crazy bullshit topsyturvey Orwellian fantasy. The Alt right is no more progressively left than economic Neoliberalism is liberal in the broadest sense of the word.
keithbvadu2
(37,008 posts)We're the platform for the alt-right.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=+%E2%80%9CWe%27re+the+platform+for+the+alt-right.%E2%80%9D
Breitbart according to President Bannon.
pecosbob
(7,547 posts)they'll start saying Hitler was a left wing organizer and that MoveOn.org is a Nazi front.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Through a convoluted thought process some on the right claim the Nazis were actually Communists.
BumRushDaShow
(129,876 posts)IronLionZion
(45,615 posts)along with the KKK and other hate groups
Wolf Frankula
(3,604 posts)CPAC are right wing Stalinists? They certainly sound like Stalinists at times.
Wolf
JudyM
(29,294 posts)JHB
(37,163 posts)These are the same sort of people who, very late in the Bush (map)administration, sniped at him for "spending like a liberal" because he was ballooning the debt on tax breaks and war.
Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)when Christopher Hitchens told squarehead Hannity, "Excuse me sir, it seems to me you have never read anything with a point of view that differs from yours."
It's just weird.