God fucking dammit I can't believe the psyop worked. Here's how it went down.
1. Trump forms a broad coalition of memers to his cause, some of whom are covert or overt white nationalists
2. Memes spread like wildfire, bringing millions to the Trump movement.
3. Clinton campaign gets pissed that she's losing the meme war
4. Clinton gives speech in Reno, appearing to coin the term "alt-right" and define it very similarly to her "basket of deplorables": racist, sexist, xenophobic, backwards-thinking rubes.
Note that at this point NOBODY KNEW ABOUT RICHARD SPENCER. See the pic: Google Trends from June 1, 2016 (well before Hillary's speech) to December 31, 2016 (after the Spencer fallout). Late August, "alt right" peaks hard, but poor Dicky Spencer is still at a solid zero. Nobody cares. Why? Because the term is not yet associated with him. Everyone left, right, and in between knows that Hillary's trying to smear the meme brigadiers.
5. Liberals go into mass hysteria mode and start calling everyone alt-right, conservatives disavow, Trumpers laugh at everyone's ignorance.
6. Groups like Breitbart and Infowars embrace the label, essentially saying "yeah we're a new conservative movement because the old one is shit" (FACT CHECK: True)
And that was their mistake. They fell right into the trap.
7. Trump wins
8. Richard Spencer unilaterally declares himself the leader of the "alt-right" because he owns a specific domain name.
9. Richard Spencer holds a literal Nazi rally in DC, complete with SIEG HEIL and Nazi salutes (in b4 MUH ROMAN SALUTE, in modern perception it's a Nazi symbol)
10. Left uses previous statements by Breitbart, Infowars and other conservative groups to label them as literal Nazis because now they share the same label.
11. Conservative groups try to disavow, utterly fail because lefties don't listen to their content and "journalists" have a financial interest in continuing to smear their competition
Moral of the story: Don't let your enemy label you.
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