Hillary Clinton’s Speech On Trump’s Alt-Right Support Highlights Right-Wing Media Fault Lines

After Hillary Clinton denounced Donald Trump’s mainstreaming of the racist, sexist “alt-right” movement, mainstream conservatives praised her statements while members of the alt-right attacked the speech as a “psyop directed at black people.”

Hillary Clinton Highlights Trump’s Promotion Of The Racist, Sexist, Bigoted Alt-Right

Clinton: Donald Trump Is “Taking Hate Groups Mainstream.” The New York Times reported Hillary Clinton “deliver[ed] a blistering denunciation of Donald J. Trump’s embrace of the ‘alt-right’ political philosophy,” stating Trump is “taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party”:

Hillary Clinton on Thursday delivered a blistering denunciation of Donald J. Trump’s embrace of the “alt-right” political philosophy, presenting his choice as an especially ominous turn in a presidential election full of them.

In her most direct critique yet connecting the Trump campaign to white nationalists and the conservative fringe, Mrs. Clinton is framing Mr. Trump’s run as unprecedented in modern politics.

“He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party,” she said.

Asserting that a racially-charged and “paranoid fringe” had always existed in politics, she said, “it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now.”

The speech, at a community college here, comes one week after Mr. Trump named Stephen K. Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, as his campaign chief. Mr. Bannon has eagerly described the site as “the platform for the alt-right” — a loosely defined and contested term often associated with white nationalist and anti-immigrant sentiment. [The New York Times, 8/25/16]

Right-Wing Pundits Praise Clinton’s Criticism Of Trump’s Embrace Of The Alt-Right

CNN Commentator S.E. Cupp: “HRC Just Said (Correctly) That Trump's Alt-Right Is Not Republican Or Conservative.”

[Twitter, 8/25/16]

Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis: “Hillary Is Doing EXACTLY What She Should.”

[Twitter, 8/25/16]

CNN Contributor Amanda Carpenter: “This Speech Has To Be Making Trump Surrogates Squirm. Yes, This Is What You Signed Up To Defend.”

[Twitter, 8/25/16]

Alt-Right Conservatives: Clinton’s “Speech Is A Psyop Directed At Black People”

Breitbart News: “MUH PUTIN IS BEHIND IT ALL.”

[Twitter, 8/25/16]

Richard B. Spencer: “Shorter Hillary: I Will Be A Candidate For White Dispossession.”

[Twitter, 8/25/16]

Spencer: “‘Letting A Radical Fringe Take Over The GOP…’ We’re The Right Now!”

[Twitter, 8/25/16]

Mike Cernovich: “Sick Hillary’s #AltRightMeans Speech Is A Psyop Directed At Black People.”

[Twitter, 8/25/16]

Infowars’ Paul Joseph Watson: “Hillary Started Out Decrying ‘Dark Conspiracy Theories’ And Then Wove A Massive One Of Her Own.”

[Twitter, 8/25/16]

Hate Website VDARE: “If This Doesn’t Work, #AltRight Can’t Be Suppressed.”

[Twitter, 8/25/16]