Donald Trump is right (about something): There really is an “alt-left,” but it’s even weirder than he thinks
As Trump, Hannity and other GOP hacks started throwing around the word “alt-left,” some liberal commentators who favored Clinton over her insurgent rival Sen. Bernie Sanders started using the word as well. Among them was Nation columnist and former Salon editor Joan Walsh: "At what point do some of these guys become the alt-left, a less toxic but still racially blinkered version of the alt-right?"
As Sarah Jones documented extensively last week,
Clinton loyalists have continued their usage of the term as a cudgel against those further to their left.
As moderate Democrats have stuck with their usage of “alt-left,” Republicans seem to have adopted it. Once Trump was sworn in as president, conservatives started using it as a synonym for various “black bloc” or “antifa” groups who frequently oppose white nationalists at their public rallies or other events.
more here:
http://www.salon.com/2017/08/26/dona...han-he-thinks/