The rise of Donald Trump has popularised the term “alt-right”, which sounds more indie and cool than “far right”. “What about the ‘alt-left’ that came charging at the, as you say, the ‘alt-right’?” Trump asked, Solomonically, after the clashes in Charlottesville. “Do they have any semblance of guilt?”Some of the people who actually protest against alt-right protesters in the US are from a group called “Antifa”, short for anti-fascist. If Coulter agrees to call her opponents “Antifa”, does it logically follow that she is happy to identify as a fascist? The angry white men who congregated in Charlottesville were widely described as “Nazis”, a usage for which there are arguments both for and against.

Source: The Guardian August 18, 2017 07:02 UTC