CPAC organizer denounces alt-right as left-wing fascist group

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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]

1. Alternative facts supported by alternative definitions.

Does the alt-right know that it's actually the left-right?

Asshats. I can't say it enough.

[Gman]

2. It means nothing

If they thought alt-right ideology would make money they would be in it like a chicken on a June Bug.

[Rex]

3. Oh how priceless! No SORRY, but you OWN the term alt-right!

Schneider's view of what conservatism is MEANS NOTHING!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Oh don't fight children. You're all horrible fascists. nt

[raging moderate]

5. By definition, fascists want rich capitalists to control the government.

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]

6. sowing confusion is what they do

and right-wingers are pretty easy to confuse

[randr]

7. They pulled that booger out of their nose

and now can't flick it off fast enough.

[Blue Idaho]

8. Not too surprising...

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]

9. We're the platform for the alt-right.

“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]

10. Next thing

they'll start saying Hitler was a left wing organizer and that MoveOn.org is a Nazi front.

[MicaelS]

12. They already have.

Through a convoluted thought process some on the right claim the Nazis were actually Communists.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Anything goes

[IronLionZion]

13. They've often peddled the alt fact that Nazis were liberal

along with the KKK and other hate groups

[Wolf Frankula]

14. If the alt-right are left wing fascists, does that mean

CPAC are right wing Stalinists? They certainly sound like Stalinists at times.

Wolf

[JudyM]

15. There they go again, contorting reality to control the narrative.

[JHB]

16. It's a conceit of theirs: if they don't like it, it's "liberal"...

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]

17. So f**king bizarre. Reminds me of the time

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.