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stuffmatters

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3. Calling them "Alt Right" lets the Rep Party off the hook. It' s a cop out
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 02:03 PM
Aug 2016

They're certainly not an "alternative" to the Republican ideology since the sixties; they're just its loudest, clearest manifestation.

The whole Republican Party pushed these voter suppression laws, were responsible for dismantling the Voting Rights Act, Affirmative Action, Welfare, etc. Their Austerity is a calculated war against the poor, mainly minorities. The whole Republican Party has systematically waged "religious" war against women and economic war against minorities. The Republicans en masse keep have kept all immigration legislation from passing. The examples are endless. They are not different (Alternative) to today's Republican Party but instead the logical manifestation of its relentless Plantation mentality.

I'd call them The Clear Right.

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