This activism drew media attention that provided publicity for the alt right and allowed it to grow further.
Though aspects of the alt right date back to 2008, it was Donald Trump’s entry in 2015 into the 2016 presidential race that really energized the alt right and caused it to become highly active in support of Trump.
The alt right also possesses its own distinct subculture, derived especially from the misogynists of the so-called “manosphere” and from online discussion forums such as 4chan, 8chan and Reddit.
The alt right has a white supremacist ideology heavily influenced by a number of sources, including paleoconservatism, neo-Nazism and fascism, identitarianism, renegade conservatives and right-wing conspiracy theorists.
Youth-oriented and overwhelmingly male, the alt right has provided new energy to the movement, but has also been a destabilizing force, much as racist skinheads were to the movement in the 1980s and early 1990s.
The white supremacist resurgence is driven in large part by the rise of the alt right, the newest segment of the white supremacist movement.
White supremacists believe that almost any action is justified if it will help “save” the white race.
Modern white supremacist ideology is centered on the assertion that the white race is in danger of extinction, drowned by a rising tide of non-white people who are controlled and manipulated by Jews.
These shocking events served as a wake-up call for many Americans about a resurgent white supremacist movement in the United States.
The white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 11-12, 2017, attracted some 600 extremists from around the country and ended in deadly violence.
White supremacists in the United States have experienced a resurgence in the past three years, driven in large part by the rise of the alt right.