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Initech

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Thu Feb 23, 2017, 03:42 PM Feb 2017

CPAC organizer denounces alt-right as left-wing fascist group [View all]

One of the first speeches at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference challenged the media to stop referring to the “alt-right,” a small, far-right movement that seeks a whites-only state and that strongly backed Donald Trump for president, as conservative.

“There is a sinister organization that is trying to warp its way into our ranks,” said Dan Schneider, the executive director of the American Conservative Union, which runs CPAC. “We must not be deceived by [a] hateful, left-wing fascist group.”

Over a few confusing minutes, Schneider argued that the “alt-right,” a term coined then popularized by the National Policy Institute’s Richard Spencer, was philosophically left-wing because it departed from his definition of conservatism, in which “the individual” is sovereign.

“They hate the Constitution. They hate free markets. They hate pluralism,” Schneider said. “Fascists tend to want big government control.”

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cpac-organizer-denounces-%e2%80%98alt-right%e2%80%99-as-%e2%80%98left-wing-fascist-group%e2%80%99/ar-AAngBOl?li=BBnb7Kz


Oh, do not go there, you fucking assholes. They are *YOUR* problem, not ours. *YOURS*. Get that right. See? They're so batshit crazy that they're blaming us for their problem, like they always do. Argh!!!!

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These same people also call the Nazis "leftist" or left-wing. It's BS Lanius Feb 2017 #1
The republicans, like the bullies they are, blame us for their problems. Initech Feb 2017 #3
Attention, media: What Lanius said! Beartracks Feb 2017 #17
They hate the Constitution. They hate free markets... Fascists... want big government control. Charles Bukowski Feb 2017 #2
damn bdamomma Feb 2017 #4
Free markets? Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #5
Huh... I'm sorry, what? MrScorpio Feb 2017 #6
You're missing the link to The Onion, Initech. nt Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2017 #7
Not the Onion! I wish! Initech Feb 2017 #10
Idiots get the red out Feb 2017 #8
labeling the alt right as left wing should have caused brains blowing up. irisblue Feb 2017 #9
Like this? Initech Feb 2017 #12
exactly! irisblue Feb 2017 #13
I love that movie! Initech Feb 2017 #21
Except, it's CPAC. opiate69 Feb 2017 #19
Dude: The alt-right runs the White House, you moron! MineralMan Feb 2017 #11
Left Wing Fascists? ProfessorGAC Feb 2017 #14
Breitbart is "the platform for the alt-right," boasts Bannon (MJ August 2016) struggle4progress Feb 2017 #15
This needs to be repeated again and again and again Maru Kitteh Feb 2017 #23
This reminds me of the idiocy of the Doughy Pantload SFnomad Feb 2017 #16
Their stupidity and arrogance know no boundaries. Initech Feb 2017 #18
At least they know they are wrong Tiggeroshii Feb 2017 #20
Left wing fascists. OK, got it. Mc Mike Feb 2017 #22
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