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Atlantic ✒ White nationalists have always been able to find one another in America, but the recent resurgence of the white-nationalist movement—and the extent to which its ideas have seeped into the mainstream alongside Donald Trump’s political ascent—is stunning.

Daniel Lombroso
 11-June-2020

In November 2016, I captured footage of Trump supporters throwing Nazi salutes in celebration of his presidential victory, a moment that became an explosive story in the days that followed, and set the tone for the Trump presidency. 

In the nearly four years since then, I have focused all of my journalistic energy on the “alt-right,” documenting the figures leading a swelling, and splintering, movement that centers around racism and hate. 

I saw far-right rhetoric rising on college campuses and in mainstream American politics, and white nationalists reaching millions online. 

I found my way into the heart of the movement, witnessing violent protests and wild parties, and sitting in the rooms where populist and racist ideologies were refined and weaponized. 

Through it all, I wanted to understand: What made white-power ideology so intoxicating, especially among my generation?

Continue reading @ Atlantic.

Four Years Embedded With the Alt-Right

Atlantic ✒ White nationalists have always been able to find one another in America, but the recent resurgence of the white-nationalist movement—and the extent to which its ideas have seeped into the mainstream alongside Donald Trump’s political ascent—is stunning.

Daniel Lombroso
 11-June-2020

In November 2016, I captured footage of Trump supporters throwing Nazi salutes in celebration of his presidential victory, a moment that became an explosive story in the days that followed, and set the tone for the Trump presidency. 

In the nearly four years since then, I have focused all of my journalistic energy on the “alt-right,” documenting the figures leading a swelling, and splintering, movement that centers around racism and hate. 

I saw far-right rhetoric rising on college campuses and in mainstream American politics, and white nationalists reaching millions online. 

I found my way into the heart of the movement, witnessing violent protests and wild parties, and sitting in the rooms where populist and racist ideologies were refined and weaponized. 

Through it all, I wanted to understand: What made white-power ideology so intoxicating, especially among my generation?

Continue reading @ Atlantic.
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1 comment:

  1. Barry Gilheany11:43 PM, November 30, 2020

    The next Alt Right Presidential candidate will not be from the Trump but a sauve,sophisticated faux-intellectual like Richard Spencer or (since he may scare too many horses) an American version of Gert Wilders, Jorge Haider or Marine Le Pen.

    They will run on a Christian nationalist platform of opposition to immigration, Islam, affirmative action, gun control and feminism. Overt racism and antisemitism will be toned down (just as the EDL has done) in order to attract conservative African-Americans and Christian Zionist supporters of the settler movement. But neither will be far from the surface as law-and-order in "urban areas" and the effects of "globalist" elites at home and abroad will be central discursive themes of this movement.

    Make no mistake, Trumpism has not gone away or will it go away any time soon even though the Donald may be spending 2024 in a Federal penitentiary rather than on the campaign trail.

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