

Writer. Musician. LFC fan and Hamilton obsessive. Will tweet consistently about social justice and Catholicism. Fil-Am. 🇵🇭✊🏽#blacklivesmatter
For some progressives there is a sense that this “alt-right” movement, with its self-parodying meme-spewing and racist frog cartoons, is too ridiculous to take seriously. The press and Hillary Clinton herself have put them in the spotlight, making some leftists suspicious that the “alt-right” is merely another bogeyman being conjured by centrist liberals to distract us from capitalism. But if such people are to serve as a vanguard against fascism, they would do well to recognize this threat for what it is: a voting bloc whose “concerns” will wend their way into the policies of the Trump Administration.
The racists Trump has courted will destroy the Republican Party as we know it, but that slow, violent death will catch us all in its wake, with potentially devastating consequences for American democracy — and what may rise in its place should comfort no one.