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The new alt-right on Fox

The new alt-right on Fox


by digby

I had a long conversation with a friend yesterday about the future of the Republican Party. While we both agreed that the core of the party is aging out quickly and they have lost all semblance of a coherent political ideology, I was left a little bit unsettled at the idea that they were just going to fade away. Maybe. Or maybe they’ll reform themselves into something legitimate and respectable again. It’s hard to imagine that right now with their blind loyalty to the monster in the White House.

But then I came home and saw this and realized that it’s probably a mistake to think there aren’t young right wingers ready to take the reins:

The piece in the Washington Post, linked above, looks at this movement.  These are the people who are protesting Republicans like Donald Trump Jr and Dan Crenshaw.

I don’t know how many of them there are. They seem like typical young bullies who find expression in politics. They exist on all sides of the spectrum and they are always around in some form or another. But the fact that the White Nationalist Tucker Carlson is eagerly inviting them on to his show and laundering their toxic terroristic ideology to his audience is not a good sign. I guess we have to hope that the elderly Fox News viewers  can’t really hear what they are saying — and the young ones are too busy wanking in their online cells.

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