Whether this is effective strategy is an open Q. -- but HRC giving a speech denouncing the alt-right will certainly embolden the alt-right
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Replying to @mtracey
It'll also give added ideological valence and cohesion to what is otherwise a largely inchoate, meme-based "movement."
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I dunno, when people make racist slurs at me, as alt-right often does, I see some ideological valence there.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
There's pre-existing ideological valence there but this will accelerate its cohesion into something more unified/tangible.
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I'd say Trump campaign has done a fair bit into making alt-right unified & tangible but constantly echoing their message
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Sure, but an enemy explicitly attacking and elevating you accelerates the process.
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If a major party candidate is echoing the neo-Nazi right, then shouldn't the opposition call attention to that & condemn?
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There are ways to frame that without giving the alt-right a signal boost.
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Again, I might agree if Bannon had't been given prominent position in Trump campaign. That changes dynamic.
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Perhaps worth noting. Bannon had prominent role in GOP pre-Trump. CPAC, etc. I spoke to him at 2012 convention.
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And you can attack Bannon's record w/o building up the alt-right. Hell, I've already gotten campaign spam that does that.
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trump isn't a candidate he's being a tv empire. Second of all the alt right is just trolls
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