THE ORIGINS AND IDEOLOGY OF THE ALTERNATIVE RIGHT
Understanding the alt-right is important for those who aim to resist the era in which we find ourselves. This is a movement that has the wind in its sails, embodying the resentments and frustrations of large swathes of America, intent on reasserting and reinforcing the supremacy of white men, to the detriment, exclusion, or even annihilation of everyone else.
Matthew Lyon’s survey of the origins of the alt-right, takes a look at its constituent parts and beliefs at the present time, as well as observations about how its future relationship with the Trump administration may play out. Of particular interest, Lyons draws attention to the importance of sexism and misogyny within this movement, to its long-term “metapolitical” strategy, as well as to the tensions between the disparate groups that have found their home under its banner.