Was there something like the modern alt-right in Nixon's time? Or was the regular right close enough to that position it didn't need an alt?
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I don't think the modifier "crypto" was in use back then.
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Conservatism itself was the fringe alt right in US politics rising to the mainstream in that period theatlantic.com/magazine/archi
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Post-Nixon right formed by Buckley purges. Only needed an "alt-" because the right purged its own voluntarily.
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My guess is that the recent alt-right trollish culture is partly a result of the recent alt-left (~neoMarxist) identity politics.
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