After Donald Trump condemned the role of the “alt-left” at Charlottesville, a flurry of articles appeared claiming “there’s no such thing as the alt-left” – that it’s a “myth” created by the right and/or “centrist liberals” to discredit the left.
CNN, for example, quoted commentators who claimed that “alt-left” is a “made-up term” used by people on the right – that it’s “not a thing. It’s just an insult”. The Washington Post, meanwhile, claimed that liberals – not the right – invented the label.
I was surprised to read these claims that the “alt-left” doesn’t exist. In the 1990s, I was […]
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