ColorLines: Is the 'Alt-Right' on Its Last Leg?

Two leading figures in so-called alt-right A term from the 2010s to describe far-right activists rooted in paleoconservatism with more explicit racism & xenophobia. Learn more have met with a series of recent setbacks. Richard Spencer’s 15 minutes as White nationalism A social movement based on a belief in biologically determined racial hierarchies, often with the ultimate goal of establishing an all-White nation state. Learn more ’s preppy it-boy seem to be up. And Matthew Heimbach’s Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP) has melted down in a sex scandal worthy of a daytime soap. But do these blows spell an end for the overt White nationalism linked to the ascent of Trump?

— Spencer Sunshine

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