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To the editor: I applaud Jonah Goldberg for remaining a member of the traditional right. (The alt-right has gained ground, thanks to a win-at-all-costs strategy, Opinion, Aug. 15)

He says the so-called alt-right wont replace mainstream conservatism because the overwhelming majority of conservatives are patriotic and decent. Yet President Trumps approval rating among Republicans is around 80%. That means Republicans are supporting an administration that includes Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka and Stephen Miller.

The people whose faces were seen so well in the torchlight in Charlottesville, Va., have supremacy over nothing and no one, but they will support those in power who feed their ugly fantasy. Without these people, conservatives cant win.

They keep feeding this beast, and it gets uglier every day.

Stephanie McIntyre, Simi Valley

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To the editor: Its a shame that Goldbergs public dissent from the alt-rights debased dogma invites harsh reprisals from fellow conservatives. But Goldbergs rare courage which prompted one pundit to label him an apostate ultimately will hold him in good stead on both sides of the red-blue divide.

Once our national nightmare has ended, most everyone to the left of the alt-right will admire Goldbergs composed, coherent takes on Trump.

If only more conservatives understood that hewing to a party line doesnt rate with being on the right side of history.

Roberta Helms, Santa Barbara

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To the editor: Enough with the term alt-right, which obscures what that movement really is: white supremacy. Each time we say it or print it, we are practically saying its all right. It is not all right; its all wrong.

The late Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and a professor of mine at Boston University, stressed the importance of identifying and naming evil. He called it our personal responsibility, and when we name something evil, we cannot permit it to be diluted or undermined.

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We, here in 2017, cannot be complacent; we cannot stand by silently. It is our imperative to name the evil that we experienced in Charlottesville. It is the neo-Nazi white supremacist movement. Sure, we can use shorthand terms neo-Nazi or white supremacy, but we cannot call it by a name that hides or obscures what this movement is.

Insist on calling a spade a spade.

Julie A. Werner-Simon, Santa Monica

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To the editor: Who decided that white supremacists could rename themselves the alt-right? Whats next, the KKK rebranding itself as the Alternative Hood Klub?

Ken Jacobs, Santa Monica

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It's a sad fact: Republicans who denounce the 'alt-right' do so at great political risk - Los Angeles Times