Altright became popular for convenience to avoid having to list all these groups every time this tension against Neocon orthodoxy came up
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Replying to @KANTBOT20K
This is point many stressed, but it was one that every journo along the way refused to get into, realizing that distinctions didnt play
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Replying to @KANTBOT20K
Before Trump mentioned Altleft its members did use term in similar way, as umbrella term for diversity of groups opposed to dem consensus
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Replying to @KANTBOT20K
In same way Altleft doesnt just include 19 year old college girls with meme signs, but also Jacobins, anarchists and Stalinists
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Replying to @KANTBOT20K
Now left clearly recognizes problems of definition as soon as its to their disadvantage and scrambles to scrap the term to avoid implication
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Replying to @KANTBOT20K
To say then Altright is defined thing while Altleft is just non-existent meme becomes the height of hypocrisy
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Replying to @KANTBOT20K
It's not completely symmetrical bc some of those groups on the right called *themselves* alt right and no one on the left did
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Replying to @NasimKaczynski
You folks probably have more insight into this than I do but I thought there was a small offshoot of NRx that called themselves "alt-left."
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Replying to @jcfrancisco
Not an NRx off-shoot, but a dissident-right sub-sect. But actually not very different to where the Alt-Right tends generally, so name faded.
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... i.e. vaguely Strasserite.
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