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To: Bonefish who wrote (983213)	11/22/2016 12:19:05 AM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 1575120

And those in Trump’s circle have eagerly bought into his legitimization of fringe views: Take strategist Steve Bannon’s description of his website, Breitbart News, as “the platform for the alt-right” and National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s regular promotion of the “alt-right” on social media. “The alt-right is here, the alt-right is not going anywhere and the alt-right is going to change the world,” Spencer proclaimed at the conference. Though he maintained that Trump and Bannon are not “alt-right,” he did make the unsettling claim that his movement is a “head without a body” and the Trump campaign was a “body without a head.” Trump’s election could complete this political Frankenstein monster, according to Spencer’s thinking. The high-profile racism and bigotry that has erupted since Nov. 8 has been unapologetically confrontational and intimidating: the Ku Klux Klan holding a “victory” rally in North Carolina, spray-painted swastikas cropping up on playgrounds and untold number of acts of bigotry directed at individuals later reported on social media. It’s cold comfort, but this kind of vileness cannot easily be incorporated into our institutions of power. A person who walks into a congressional office in a white hood asking for a meeting about the Jewish pestilence isn’t likely to get very far, but a clean-cut guy exuding the same white-collar blandness as that annoying guy at work who won’t shut up about his kickball league or Trunk Club membership is another story. That’s what makes Richard Spencer and the National Policy Institute so scary. A well-spoken graduate of the University of Virginia rambling about arcane-sounding things like, say, our “identitarian school curriculum” just might change some minds. Spencer has insisted that he is not in contact with Trump or his transition team, but added that he is impressed by putative administration figures like Steve Bannon and attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions. Spencer kicked out the media after his press conference concluded, but the Atlantic recorded video of Spencer proclaiming “ Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” and a number of audience members responding with the Nazi salute.