{"id":374272,"date":"2018-08-21T13:24:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T12:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-alt-right-menace-persists-despite-setbacks\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T13:24:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T12:24:13","slug":"the-alt-right-menace-persists-despite-setbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-alt-right-menace-persists-despite-setbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cAlt-Right\u201d Menace Persists, Despite Setbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The failures of far-right white nationalist rallies over the last month are significant as a barometer for telling us where we stand as a country. The reactionary \u201cPatriot Prayer\u201d and \u201cProud Boy\u201d groups failed<\/a> to galvanize a mass turnout in their \u201cFreedom March,\u201d in Portland in early August, with only 400 supporters attending, in comparison to more than a thousand counter-protesters. Similarly, the turnout<\/a> at the \u201cUnite the Right 2\u201d rally in Washington D.C., organized by Jason Kessler as a follow up to the Charlottesville, VA rally last year, saw just 30 people attend, and they were militantly opposed by thousands of counter-protesters.<\/p>\n

These anemic turnouts suggest that the \u201calt-right\u201d \u2013 and white supremacists more generally \u2013 are increasingly marginalized in American political culture, and that they are on the defensive in the face of a significant public counter-mobilization that has included both violent (Antifa) and non-violent components. None of this is to suggest that the threat of reactionary politics has subsided. As an ABC-Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>poll from August 2017 found, one-in-ten<\/a> Americans, or 22 million people, said they were supporters of the \u201calt-right\u201d movement, and claimed it is \u201cacceptable\u201d to hold neo-Nazi, white supremacist views. And these numbers may be an underestimate. In a national survey I designed that was administered in January 2018, I asked Americans across the nation what they thought of the \u201calt-right\u201d or…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The failures of far-right white nationalist rallies over the last month are significant as a barometer for telling us where we stand as a country. The reactionary \u201cPatriot Prayer\u201d and \u201cProud Boy\u201d groups failed to galvanize a mass turnout in their \u201cFreedom March,\u201d in Portland in early August, with only 400 supporters attending, in comparison […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}