The two merged semiofficially in August, when Breitbart’s chief executive officer, Steve Bannon, quit his job to run Trump’s campaign. Trump has become the candidate of the alt-right, Breitbart News has become the movement’s voice. It isn’t what we believe in.”Īs Donald J.
“I don’t even know what it is, other than that it isn’t us.
“It’s a nasty, virulent strain of something,” he said. The alt-right is a new enough phenomenon that in August, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan-running against an alt-right candidate in a primary-mistakenly called it “alt-conservatism” on a radio show. They do most of their acting out online, often by organizing on 4chan or Reddit and then trolling targets on Twitter. They call establishment and even Tea Party Republicans “cuckservatives”-because they are cuckolded by the Left. Their MO usually involves pissing people off with hypermasculine taunts. Photographer: William Mebane for Bloomberg Businessweekīut members of the alt-right, unlike their old, frustrated European counterparts, are less focused on policy than on performance. They admire the bravado of authoritarians, especially Vladimir Putin. They don’t like international groups such as the European Union, United Nations, or NATO-even the International Olympic Committee. They’re angry about political correctness guilting them about insensitivity to women, minorities, gays, transgender people, the disabled, the sick-the everyone-but-them.
Their followers’ politics are almost exactly the same: They’re angry about globalization-culturally even more than economically. version of Europe’s far right (led at various times by England’s Nigel Farage, France’s Marine Le Pen, Austria’s Jorg Haider, the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders, and Germany’s Frauke Petry). He still has nearly 275,000 subscribers to his YouTube speeches, and CNBC and Fox turn to him as the most notorious spokesman for the alt-right, the U.S. He was permanently banned from Twitter in July after the social media company said his almost 350,000 followers were responsible for harassing Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones. Yiannopoulos gained his initial fame as the general in a massive troll war over misogyny in the video game world, known as Gamergate. Yiannopoulos is the 31-year-old British tech editor and star writer for Breitbart News, where he’s the loudest defender of the new, Trump-led ultraconservatism, standing athwart history, shouting to stop immigrants, feminists, political correctness, and any non-Western culture. Life is a Monet painting,” he says, taking off his glasses. “I have ridiculously bad eyesight, but I have learned to live with an impressionistic view. It resumed at Texas Tech University on Sept. 12 and is scheduled to hit campuses including Columbia, Dartmouth, the University of Alabama, and the University of California at Berkeley before concluding at UCLA in February.
He’s buying clothes for his next round of college speeches in, as his bus announces in huge letters next to five giant photos of him, the Dangerous Faggot Tour. He examines himself in a mirror to see if he wants to add a gray suit to his purchases, which will push his bill to almost $12,000 at Savile Row’s Gieves & Hawkes. At 4 p.m., Milo Yiannopoulos puts on a pair of glasses for the first time today.