What Charlie Kirk’s Life and Death Can Tell Us About the U.S. Right in the Age of Trump
“The dispute between Counter-Currents writers and Groypers over how to remember Charlie Kirk echoes tensions within the A term from the 2010s to describe far-right activists rooted in paleoconservatism with more explicit racism & xenophobia. Learn more , which was the most important iteration of 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 at the beginning of the first Trump administration eight years ago. With the alt-right gaining numbers and visibility thanks to its role in helping Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, some conservatives, who became known as the “alt-lite,” adopted part of the alt-right’s message and tactics without embracing its goal of a full-fledged ethnostate. As I wrote at the time [politicalresearch.org], “Alt Rightists have relied on the Alt Lite to help bring its ideas to a mass, mainstream audience, but to varying degrees they have also regarded Alt Lite figures with resentment, as ideologically untrustworthy opportunists.” Similarly now, some white nationalists regarded Kirk and TPUSA as political obstacles, while other white nationalists saw them as “close cousins”—less advanced but moving in the same direction.”