Re:Background on Attempts to Frame Assange as a Pedophile an...
by Nydhal on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @05:56PM
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It might as well be that the alt-right is already the one filling the gap.
Re:Background on Attempts to Frame Assange as a Pedophile an...
by mschuster91 on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:02PM
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> It might as well be that the alt-right is already the one filling the gap.
By their volume and tone in shouting on the Internet, yes, for sure - but in numbers? I seriously doubt that the alt-right is capable of maintaining a nationwide powerful political party.
As if the usual short-attention-span media and population will ever care about it. It'll be maybe until a couple of months after Clinton's inauguration and no one gives a f... about Trump any more. There's always something more newsworthy than the misery of a failed presidential candidate.
The only exception will be the GOP: they're in for a couple very nasty years, divided between a couple remaining "ordinary" conservatives, the Trump/Tea Party extreme-right-wing movement which surely won't be retreating even if Trump loses, and a society that is more and more moving towards the left end of the political scale - just look at marijuana, homosexual marriage, abortions... society is on a way towards progress and you just can't sell abortions and homosexual marriages to a party consisting of (extreme) Christians and right-wings. No one will vote for them any more.
The GOP will be shattered, the only problem is that there's no one to fill the gap yet.