Very well written.
Let me provide another perspective, which is all but universally accepted as true now on the more educated/informed wing of the ‘Alt-Right’:
They believe this entire thing was an orchestrated setup. A well planned and beautifully carried out means and methods of smearing those who have any qualms with the wholesale destruction of the culture in the west, the seemingly condoned violence against law enforcement, the tearing down of statues and the labeling of anyone who disagrees with the currently hip PC narratives as racist, hateful, bigoted.
None of us knew who this Mr. Cantwell was, prior to a few days ago. Nobody respects him, resonates with his message, and we’re deeply skeptical of just how/why he’s suddenly the ignorant/ugly face of the alt-right, but we have our suspicions. Why did McAuliffe order the police to funnel the marchers, who were bus’ed in and seemed to hijack the defend-the-statue protest completely, directly into the waiting hard-left/Antifa? Why did they issue orders for the police to stand down as the violence ensued (they can deny this all they want, several police officers have come forward, in disgust at their leadership, to vouch for this)? How was this entire VICE production so prescient about what this was going to develop into, and so ready to make maximal propagandistic usage, with the help of nearly every mass-media outlet in the nation running heavily edited clips Ad nauseam? Why was the chant ‘*you* will not replace us’ (presumably speaking about the vanishing middle class in this nation) changed to ‘Jews will not replace us’?
I feel most of the press in this nation has sacrificed journalistic integrity and intellectual honesty in exchange for scoring political points, against a president and party with whom they disagree. . . and I think its vile, and I suspect this is only the tip of the iceberg.
I haven’t seen much overt hatred on the rightist circles I run in, and I like to think most of us love, respect, and want whats best for all peoples, and this tends to be what I see and hear, with few exceptions. The media seems intent on portraying a very different impression, and I think its smarmy and disingenuous, partisan, biased.
A free and independent press, giving roughly equal air to both sides and seeking to represent the population as a whole, is absolutely vital to the health of a nation. It’s the backbone, from which everything else is downstream. I feel we’ve lost this, in the U.S., and I think the implications should be terrifying.
If their goal is to cultivate an angry right for the sake of powerful optics, they’re certainly doing a masterful job of pushing us in that direction.
