Based on the tone of comments around here lately, I'm getting the sense that HN has been populated by closeted alt-right for a while now.
Not to mention, a lot of the "alt right" is not particularly right wing at all, some (like protectionism) is even left wing.
Alt-right is just a meaningless catch-all term to describe someone who is sarcastic and "not-liberal."
According to this definition, Bill Hicks was alt-right. Thus, the term has zero value.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wo...
helpfulanon: I think there are more people than you expected here who are willing to state that they lean right. (That's not the same as "closeted alt-right" by any means.) Some of those people are a bit strident right now. But there are a bunch of people who lean left who are pretty bitter, too. And I think that the only thing that changed was that we had an election. Those people who lean right, leaned right before the election. They didn't just come here in the past week to triumphantly throw their weight around.
newswriter99: According to your definition. I don't think that's the right definition, though. Wikipedia's definition seems pretty accurate: "The alt-right is a loose group of people with far right ideologies who reject mainstream conservatism in the United States." That's why they're "alt" - they reject the normal, mainstream right. So not everyone who voted Republican is alt-right. Trump, however, is certainly not a candidate who embraced normal conservatism, so it might be fair to call him an alt-right candidate.
I repeat my previous statement: the term is meaningless.
Unfortunately, this isn't true. There definitely is movement afoot on the right side of the spectrum that distinguishes itself from the standard U.S. "conservative" camp of roughly the mid-1960s to present in many disturbing ways (open and enthusiastic embrace of race-baiting techniques, climate change denialism, and an abdiding belief that political correctness is basically the greatest threat that humanity has ever faced) that many traditional conservatives actually find quite ridiculous and/or outright repugnant.
The WP entry may not be the best, but for further research here are two fairly cogent descriptions you may consult, from two (otherwise, in a normal world) diametrically opposed sources -- NPR and Glenn Beck.
http://www.npr.org/2016/08/26/491452721/the-history-of-the-a...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/15/politics/glenn-beck-bannon-app...
Like Beck says, while Trump supporters generally cannot be fairly categorized as alt-right, "they are being influenced without knowing it."
>It's a choice between center-right "left" that's sold out to the establishment and the far right.
I came here hoping there would be a more open discussion then on reddit, but it's the same crowd.