The Alt-Right and Far Left Versus H.R. McMaster

Strange new allies wage a strange new war

New York Magazine
Aug 8, 2017 · 6 min read
US Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster looks on as US President Donald Trump announces him as his national security adviser at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 20, 2017 — NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images

By Jonathan Chait

Donald Trump has scrambled the political spectrum in certain ways, and one of them has been to introduce a new set of players to the national scene. “Nationalists” or “populists” (as they now call themselves), or the “alt-right” (as they used to call themselves), have…

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