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aristarchus [soylentnews.org] writes:

Alex Jones has been banned from Facebook. Milo Yiannopoulos has been deplatformed. Baked Alaska is repentant. The alt-right is in a state of online crisis. Has it been weakened?

Or was it just stupid from the get-go? Very Fine Article from The Ringer [theringer.com]. Apropos, no?

BuzzFeed published a story about Katie McHugh, a former Breitbart staffer and white nationalist provocateur who now renounces the alt-right. [Rejected aristarchus submission here [soylentnews.org]] McHugh is a minor but instructive figure. She disproves the distinctions between conservatism and Trumpism and embodies the naive desire among liberals to see President Donald Trump’s moment graciously undo itself. She even dares the reader to doubt a reformed troll’s sincerity. During the past three years, the alt-right and its noisiest proponents, including McHugh, have been routinely disgraced, deplatformed, and demoralized—but never quite defeated. Trump’s presidency endures as the peak achievement while many of the alt-right showboats who accompanied the president’s rise have fallen into obscurity, absurdity, or else a kind of repentance.

The consequences are devastating. It is like loosing 1.17 Billion Dollars on fake real estate.

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