Do You Consider Yourself Alt-Right?

[Deus Vult]

"Alt-Right" is still a nebulous term to me. Of course, the "right" was and is an umbrella term for smaller groups and/ideas who in many cases oppose one another.
Hillary Clinton tried to demonize "alt-right" folks, famously tossing them into her "basket of deplorables." She referred to older race-realist activists such as David Duke and Jared Taylor. Younger folks like Milo Y., Richard Spencer, James Edwards, and Lana Lokteff appear eager to wear the alt-right label.
Spencer says the alt-right differs from the paleo-right in style as well as substance. In terms of philosophy and policy, the aforementioned spokesmen appear to represent significantly different strains.
I identify with some views of the paleoconservatives, the right-libertarians, and what is lately described as alt-right. Therefore I hesitate to call myself an alt-righter.

 

[DixieDestroyer]

I consider myself a true American (1.0) & a real man of the old school manner. The leftists would label my/our kind as 'dinosaur' "White supremists". When (in fact), we're 'racial realists'. We fully comprehend the truth. If I had to self-label...then I'd be a paleoconservative (White) nationalist & (non-z10nist) old time Christian.

 

[Ambrose]

I have no true fixed meaning of the expression "Alt-Right". I have been born and bred to love freedom more than anything else. I have what most believe are "right wing" values. My loyalties are first and ever to my kin and kind. I am a man. I would say, and add, that were I photographed with a thousand men, lined side by side, each according to his political beliefs, I would be the man so far to the right that I would be the man furthest from the left!!

 

[Freethinker]

I identify with some views of the paleoconservatives, the right-libertarians, and what is lately described as alt-right. Therefore I hesitate to call myself an alt-righter.

I'd probably fall into a similar situation as you with the labeling.

There are a lot of national socialists in the Alt Right which keeps me from self identifying as such. I don't say that to shy away from the cultural ideas and promotion of an ethnostate. I'm all for physical removal of all sorts of subversives, degenerates and alien tribalists. Where I differ is economically. Socialism is a failed theory that wouldn't be successful even in fully White nations. In fact, it is horsesh1t social programs that has massively contributed to the demographic decline of Europe.

Where the Alt Right is winning "bigly" is in the culture war. Their propaganda, memeing and trolling has been highly effective and has reached more "normies" than the academic or philosophical approach ever could. They realized you have to be fun and edgy to attract more young people. They are engaging with the left and using their own tactics against them. For the first time since the mid 1960s there is a proper counter movement in the culture war.

What the Alt Right evolves into in the coming years is unknown. However, at the moment they are doing the important first step of destroying the leftist / globalist / Jewish power structure. And that is exciting.

 

[FootballDad]

"Alt-right" is just a new derogatory term invented by the FNM (fake news media) to attempt to marginalize a large segment of the "conservative" populace. They portray the "alt-right" as a new, dastardly fringe movement, when it's just normal everyday Constitutionalist-leaning people that want to stick to founding principles. Like shrinking the government leviathan and ending Washington hegemony around the world.

 

[Don Wassall]

I am an American Nationalist, and also a populist. That hasn't changed in 35 years. I support the alt-right and link to and re-publish lots of alt-right material (including on CF), but the alt-right at its essence is a new incarnation of the old right-wing expressing itself via the internet.

A lot of the young thinkers and writers who call themselves alt-right hopefully realize that the only reason it exists is because of the untiring efforts of nationalists and rightists through the decades and generations before the internet came around. Unfortunately rightists have been small in numbers for the past 80 years, since the America First movement was effectively smashed by the attack on Pearl Harbor, and ever since have had to work under very difficult circumstances. The current situation, with Soros & Friends trying to foist a "color revolution" on the country, is the end result of the "long march through the institutions" that began well over a century ago and became especially effective following the Allies' win in WWII.

The attacks on the NPI Conference following the election, via the combined efforts of communist street scum and the Fake News Media, illustrates how difficult it is to move beyond the internet and organize on the ground. But nonetheless the alt-right needs to work with the "old right" to build political organizations and a political party, otherwise it will become another footnote of the generations-long struggle against The Powers That Be no matter how clearly right and just its arguments are.

 

[Deus Vult]

"Alt-right" is just a new derogatory term invented by the FNM (fake news media) to attempt to marginalize a large segment of the "conservative" populace. They portray the "alt-right" as a new, dastardly fringe movement, when it's just normal everyday Constitutionalist-leaning people that want to stick to founding principles. Like shrinking the government leviathan and ending Washington hegemony around the world.

Hmmm... It seems to me that whatever alt-right is, it is something a bit different from the traditional right. It is certainly different from the DC-Beltway "right." Not only in style, but on certain positions. Alt-right folks, as best I could identify them and understand their positions, seem too comfortable with big government for my liking. Like Freethinker, I am a race-realist who opposes socialism. I cringe when I hear Trump and his acolytes say of Obamacare: "repeal and replace." No, just repeal!
Like Dixie Destroyer, I am also a southerner who appreciates tradition. Alt-rightists appear to eschew cultural tradition.
Like Brother Wassall, whose use of terms like nationalist and populist I explicitly trust and relate to, I do think the emerging alt-right needs to maintain a bridge to the traditional right, the authentic (paleo) right, even if they diverge on social questions like religion, homo marriage, welfare state, etc. It's not enough to be "red pilled" on race. That alone doesn't make you a rightist. There always have been liberals and big government types who understand race to some degree or another.

 

[Menelik]

I consider myself a Georgia Cracker conservative.

 

[Booth]

I am a Jessie Helms conservative except I consider myself a true hard core racist. Where ever i go,what ever i buy,whatever decision i make, my first thought is it going to help my white brothers? Screw the minorities they sucked the last bit of blood out of me.