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The Neocons put Ann Coulter among the Alt-Right because she locks horns with them frequently, but I doubt that Ann Coulter would say that she is in the Alt-Right, but maybe she would. The editors of Breitbart do not see themselves as Alt-Right either.The Alt-Right consists of the 'Natural Conservatives' who are more moderate and assert that one cannot separate culture from ethnicity and race (I disagree), but they do correctly assert that ideology and politics flow downstream from culture and that I most certainly do agree with. Along with the "Natcons" are the Memers and the 1488ers and the remnants of the Paleocon movement and Cultural conservatives of various kinds and both of whom are the vast majority of the Alt-Right.
This embraces a huge number of people in that subspectrum of the anti-Neocon Right from Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham and Andrew Breitbart to those who would object to their own inclusion like Rush Limbaugh and Rudy Giulliani, to those who want to be, not just members, but thought of as the definers of Alt-Right ideology like the 1488ers and this loser.
The lefts reaction to the Alt right is similar to many of the right's reaction to Islam in that both groups tend to identify their opposition by the most extreme views that they find among that group.
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That may be, but I also don't hear the more rational folks, folks who, if what you write is true, should exist among the Alt-Right, jumping up and saying, in effect, "Whoa, there Nellie. Those "wingnuts" and their views do not reflect the predominant lines of thought among the Alt-Right. Don't listen to them; don't lump us with them."
It may be that as with the distinction between other social action/political groups, Act UP vs mainstream gays, for example, the Alt-Right's philosophical bases are similar to those of the GOP mainstream, but their methods are so very not at all the same. That's important for not all means to an end are acceptable or right.
As my demented mother becomes increasingly violent and harmful to herself and others, I could have her straightjacketed and tossed into a padded room. I could have her lobotomized or kept heavily sedated too. Those solutions would certainly keep her from being harmful to herself and others, but I hardly think any of them are the right ways to obtain that end.
But as the term is coming to be used over the last year or so, the Alt-Right is the in-party opposition to the Neocon Republican Establishment. That includes the old Traditional right as well as the White Nationalists and Neonazis. And the wishes or preferences of those they so group is irrelevant to them, just as Trumps wishes are similarly irrelevant.
Seems to me the logical end to the line of thought you've depicted is the conclusion that political parties are the bane of the political process. Now they may be. They seem so to me, but then I've long not belonged to one.