CBC News: 'Friends become enemies': Trump's Syria strike stirs up alt-right outrage as lawmakers praise him
Matthew Lyons, who has researched the origins of the A term from the 2010s to describe far-right activists rooted in paleoconservatism with more explicit racism & xenophobia. Learn more and co-authored the book Ctrl-Alt-Delete: An Antifascist Report on the Alternative Right, said Generically used to describe factions of right-wing politics that are outside of and often critical of traditional conservatism. Learn more groups will see Trump’s Syria strike as a “dramatic abandonment” of his stated foreign policy doctrine.
“If Trump continues in the same vein, I think it probably will mean a pretty definitive break,” Lyons said.