How can liberals start celebrating, as white supremacists are celebrating?

Four quotes from an article about a Washington DC white supremacist victory party, which neatly illustrates some of the points made in my last post about the need for an alt-centre:

“It’s been an awakening,” Richard B. Spencer, who is credited with coining the term alt-right, said at the gathering on Saturday. “This is what a successful movement looks like.”

“I never thought we would get to this point, any point close to mainstream acceptance or political influence,” said Matt Forney, 28, of Chicago. “The culture is moving more in my direction.”

“I thought I had all the right answers and had read all the right books,” [Robert Taylor, 29] said. “I heard about the alt-right movement, and it just lit a fire in me.”

“In the long run, people like Bannon and Trump will be open to the clarity of our ideas,” said Jared Taylor, the founder of the white nationalist publication American Renaissance.

Simple messaging, long-term game-plan, big impact. It’s what good marketing looks like.

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Update: More on this white supremacist celebratory conference over at Buzzfeed, including some more interesting quotes:

“I would say that many people here have been influenced pretty profoundly by the European new right.” His co-panelist Jorjani’s website, Arktos, translates works of the European movement into English.

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“We understand identity groups broadly like BLM, and to a lesser extent Zionism, on the level that most liberals and conservatives never will be able to because we recognize what it’s like to be completely uprooted and be without an identity and feel alienated from society at large,” Ajax said.

These people are seeing the big, international picture. They’re seeing themselves in perspective. Liberals need to do the same.