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President Trumps Thursday bombing of Afghanistan, just a week after an airstrike on Syria, is again challenging his alt-right and white nationalist fans.

Some of the far right-wingers see the moves as evidence of a full Jewish coup sweeping the White House and are even portraying Trump himself as a sort of victim.

All around him are these Jewish extremists like Kushner, said David Duke, referring to Jared Kushner, Trumps son-in-law. Duke is a former Ku Klux Klan head and sort of elder statesman for white nationalists. Trump might not even know half the things they do.

Duke, who has been an avid Trump supported urged the president to fend off this Jewish coup which Duke saw as leading the country to war, but stopped just short of fully condemnding Trump.

If we totally abandon Trump, say he has to get impeached, who are we going to get in turn? Duke asked. Mike Pence? Hes the biggest cuck in the world.

Cuck is the shortened version of cuckservative, a racially and sexually charged neologism that was popularized by far-right supporters to deride conservatives who supposedly abandoned their true values.

Trump had a populist vision, but lacked an infrastructure to carry it out. Hes had to turn to all the same failed people and ideas, wrote Richard Spencer, the white nationalists who helped popularize the term alt-right.

One fundamental problem of Trumpism is not so much Trump himself but Conservatism, Spencer wrote on Twitter.

Spencer stopped just short of fully condemning Trump last week.

Mike Cernovich, the right-wing blogger who moves in the alt-right orbit said he would not be turning on Trump though he was opposed to what he described as the globalist inner circle which threatens Trump.

In a Friday episode of Inforwars, the right-wing conspiracy site, Cernovich discussed his disappointment with the programs host Alex Jones. Jones has been another outspoken Trump fan, but has also slightly tempered his tone.

Jones sought to cast Trumps shift in some policies as the moves of a hard negotiator not as someone who had betrayed his base.

Cernovich agreed with this characterization and said that it was similar to how some in the alt-right orbit might be pushing back against Trump right now.

The same way that you and I are pushing back against the ground war in Syria. It doesnt mean that we flip-flopped, it doesnt mean that we oppose Trump, Cernovich said. Were just saying, hey there is a negotiation going on too, even between us and the president of the United States that is how adults behave.

Jones agreed, urging viewers to not totally abandon Trump. He said that would be a childish move. By leaving the sandbox, youre not even in the game, Jones said.

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A report by the Atlantic Councils Digital Forensic Research Lab found that aclaim thatrecent airstrikes in Syria were a false flag operation an operation that either didnt really occur or that were conducted by a party other than the Syrian government which went viral among the alt-right actuallyoriginated witha Syrian propaganda outlet that supports the current regime andspread to a series of pro-Kremlin conspiracy websites andfake news purveyorsbefore being promoted byalt-right figures including Infowars Alex Jones and Mike Cernovich.

The report showed that key claims, quotes, and images that were initially reported by Al-Masdar, the outlet that supports Syrian President Bashar Assad, were used in reports on pro-Kremlin sites, fake news sites, and on Infowars.

In addition, the reportnotedthat, after the false flag claim was promoted by Jones and Cernovich,Twitter accounts that appear to be bots accelerated the use of hashtags about the attack, which led to the hashtag #SyriaHoax going viral. The report concluded,The Syrian regimes reaction to the chemical attack is no surprise, but what is noteworthy is the way in which the regimes response was translated rapidly and directly into coverage on alt-right websites, most obviously Infowars. From the report:

The chemical attack came at dawn, local time, on April 4. It was widely reported and provoked outrage and condemnation, triggering immediate calls for an investigation. Photographs and videos from the scene showed hideous images of dead children and footage of rescuers, including the White Helmets group, washing down victims.

The same day, website Al-Masdar News, which supports the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, published an article claiming that the story was a false flag operation.

Over the next two days, the al-Masdar piece was picked up by a number of pro-Kremlin and anti-Western sites.

It was reproduced verbatim by at least three conspiracy sites: globalresearch.ca, informationclearinghouse.info and The Lifeboat News. A number of pro-Kremlin sites known for their use of false reporting quoted it at length. These included The Duran and The Russophile (also known as Russia News Now), together with conspiracy site Investment Watch Blog.

A third group of sites wrote their own reports, but very largely followed the Al-Masdar arguments. These included 21st Century Wire and Before Its News, both of which ran a video repeating the claims and using the same imagery.

The most influential pickup came on April 5, when US-based conspiracy site Infowars ran its version of the story. Infowars is a highly influential site among the alt-right movement in the US; its leading light, Alex Jones, has over 600,000 Twitter followers.

The Syrian regimes reaction to the chemical attack is no surprise. It has consistently denied all accusations of atrocities, and accused its critics of false claims, as documented in the Atlantic Councils report Breaking Aleppo.

What is noteworthy is the way in which the regimes response, launched on a site which has repeatedly amplified Assads messaging, was translated rapidly and directly into coverage on alt-right websites, most obviously Infowars.

Conspiracy website Infowars and its proprietor, Alex Jones,have heavily praised Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent months, with Jones previouslybraggingabout praise from top Putin advisers and even Putin himself in regards tohis pro-Trump coverage. Jones alsoclaims to have talked to folks very close to the president about Trumps Syria policy. Both Jones and Cernovich, amember of the so-called alt-right, havehelped popularize numerous conspiracy theories, including the Pizzagate story that falsely claimed an underground child sex trafficking ring was run out of a pizzeria in Washington, D.C.

In March, the FBI opened an investigation into Russian operatives use of bots to push pro-Trump news from far-right outlets to social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and the Senate Intelligence Committee opened an investigation into Russias use of fake news to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Before Its News, one of the pro-Trump propaganda outlets mentioned in the report, and a site that Media Matters has identified as a fake news purveyor, has denied any connection between Trump and the Russian government.

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Bill Wirtz deserves our thanks for addressing the rise of a right-of-center political party in Germany, indeed the only German national party that defies Chancellor Angela Merkels boast that that there is no right-of-center party in Germany. Given the fact that the German Federal Republic may be able to claim the most politically correct electorate in Europe, the Alternative fr Deutschland seems like a rather modest exception to Merkels generalization: right now its polling less than 10 percent of the likely German vote and in the recent regional election in the Saarland picked up no more than 7 percent. This, mind you, is in a country in which Merkels CDU-SDP coalition is responsible for admitting during the last year and a half about two million Syrian migrants (many of whom are neither Syrians nor refugees). In Germany, moreover, the rate of violent crime among the Muslim newcomers is many times higher than among the indigenous European population. The German response to this cataclysm has been not, as one might expect, to head decisively toward the right. Rather the electorate seems to be shifting toward the multicultural left and toward specifically those political parties that are emphatically antinational and favor even further immigration from the Muslim Third World.

Any attempt to see Germany as being on the verge of lurching toward a neo-fascist alternative to its current PC regime is utterly delusional. The Germans were so thoroughly reeducated by their victors after World War II that subsequent generations evolved into PC automata. The leaders of Germanys very powerful leftist parties (that is, those to the left of the Christian Democrats), like Jurgen Trittin of the Greens, obtain millions of Germans vote. They also express utter loathing for their nation, as Trittin did continuously as a member of the German Bundestag, and promise to make it disappear into some global political entity. Any demonstration against further Muslim immigration into Germany brings out throngs of leftist demonstrators, who openly engage in violence against immigration critics. The national gathering of the AfD that will take place in Cologne right after Easter has already elicited demonstrations and predictable acts of violence from the left. The police in such situations are usually directed not to interfere in the demonstrations; and the German police inexcusably dithered when migrants sexually assaulted a few dozen German girls near the Cologne Central Railroad Station on New Years evening 201516.

Wirtzs comparison of the AfD to Richard Spencers version of the alt-right left me scratching my head. Unlike certain strains of the alt-right, the AfD is not white nationalist, and its nativism seems to be confined to its preference (as explained in its statement of principle in 2016) that if Germany wishes to replace its shrinking population, we need families with more children and not more mass immigration. Having before me at this moment the AfD statement of principle, I find nothing there that reflects Mr. Spencers moral positions. The document affirms the sanctity of life and opposes abortion and gay marriage (these are not stands taken by most representatives of the present alt-right). The AfD also seeks to restore the traditional family of father, mother and children as the nucleus of society. Just about everything else the AfD advocates would fit into a Republican national platform, with its stress on fiscal restraint and cutting off funding to inveterately leftist public media. The AfD also calls for returning sovereignty that had been seized by the EU to its own country and reconsidering the usefulness of the euro zone for German economic stability. The statement of principle also makes clear that Germanys borders are not the same as those of the EU. It is the German border police, not EU officials, who should decide who enters the country. Mr. Wirtz may not agree with this Trump-like reassertion of national sovereignty, but its exceedingly hard to see how it equates with white nationalism or neo-Nazism.

Wirtz also assigns an unfairly sinister interpretation to an often decontextualized remark made by the former Thuringian chairman of the AfD Bjrn Hocke at a party gathering in Magdeburg on October 16, 2015. Hocke was in no way alluding to Hitlers One Thousand Year Reich when he spoke about Germany having a future of one thousand years. The speaker was talking about how his region was convulsed by migrant violence; and he expressed the hope that Germany, which can look back at a one thousand year past, would also have a future to look forward to.

Pace Wirtz, Hocke was not imitating the Nazis when he objected to the placing of a national Holocaust monument in the center of Germanys capital. In my view, this Thuringian politician was unfairly expelled from his party when he described the monument as a Schandmal, a term that can be translated as either shame monument or stigma. The eminent German jurist, longtime pillar of Merkels party, and more recently vice-chairman of the AfD, Alexander Gauland was entirely correct when he insisted that Hockes stated opinion is certainly no grounds for expelling someone from a German party that claims to welcome an honest exchange of views.

Like other German patriots, Gauland reluctantly left Merkels party after it tried to outdo the left in renouncing Germanys right to a national identity. Like other European countries, according to Gauland, Germanys right to be a nation should not be negotiable.

Paul Gottfried is the author of Leo Strauss and the American Conservative Movement.

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Controversial alt-right provocateur Mike Cernovich appears to have been punched in the face at an anti-Trump rally in Austin, TX on Saturday after repeatedly yelling "Bill Clinton is a rapist" at the crowd.

The right-wing vlogger livestreamed his protest of the rally calling for President Trump to release his tax returns, and the footage appears to show rally goers shouting obscenities, pushing and shoving protest signs in front of Cernovich's face.

The livestream on Periscope then abruptly ends when Cernovich's phone falls after seemingly taking a hit.

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@Cernovich @Rambobiggs Good job Mike you had the right to free speech and to protect yourself when attacked.. I saw https://t.co/hyMdbIuLbF

@Kimberl05453181 @Cernovich @Rambobiggs The the looks of Mike's knuckles he had a very good right!

@Cernovich @Rambobiggs My gosh.... be safe Cernovich those idiots are crazy!!!!

@Cernovich @Rambobiggs that guy behind you yelling "show your taxes" is so creepy!

@Cernovich @Rambobiggs You both had every right to #FOS and to self defense.

@Cernovich @Rambobiggs Tweeting about yourself in the third person is telling. And unsurprising.

@Cernovich @Rambobiggs I guess free speech isn't really free #murica

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"Somebody attacked me and I had to hit them back," said Cernovich while showing his slightly bloodied fist to the camera on a separate livestream after the altercation.

Multiple witnesses claim to have seen Cernovich get "ambushed."

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"You guys were leaving, you said your piece, some guy came in and coldcocked you," said one witness on Cernovich's stream.

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Demonstrators protest in response to President Donald Trump's refusal to make his tax returns public in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. April 15, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Makela

Demonstrators protest in response to President Donald Trump's refusal to make his tax returns public in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. April 15, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Makela

Demonstrators protest in response to President Donald Trump's refusal to make his tax returns public in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. April 15, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Makela

People march demanding President Donald Trump release his tax returns, in New York, U.S., REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

People march demanding President Donald Trump release his tax returns, in New York, U.S., April 15, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

People march demanding President Donald Trump release his tax returns, in New York, U.S., REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

People march demanding President Donald Trump release his tax returns, in New York, U.S., REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Demonstrators protest in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's refusal to make his tax returns public, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. April 15, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Makela

Demonstrators protest in response to President Donald Trump's refusal to make his tax returns public in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. April 15, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Makela

Demonstrators protest in response to President Donald Trump's refusal to make his tax returns public in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. April 15, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Makela

Demonstrators protest in response to President Donald Trump's refusal to make his tax returns public in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. April 15, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Makela

UNITED STATES - APRIL 15: Buddhist monk Jampal Rowe of Poolesville, Md., attends the Tax March rally on the west lawn of the Capitol to call on President Trump to release his tax returns, April 15, 2017. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Protestors take part in the 'Tax March' to call on US President Donald Trump to release his tax records on April 15, 2017 in New York. / AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR (Photo credit should read KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images)

Protestors walk by the Trump hotel during the 'Tax March' to call on US President Donald Trump to release his tax records on April 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. / AFP PHOTO / Mandel Ngan (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Protestors take part in the 'Tax March' to call on US President Donald Trump to release his tax records on April 15, 2017 in New York. / AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR (Photo credit should read KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images)

Protestors take part in the 'Tax March' to call on US President Donald Trump to release his tax records on April 15, 2017 in New York. / AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR (Photo credit should read KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images)

Protestors take part in the 'Tax March' to call on US President Donald Trump to release his tax records on April 15, 2017 in New York. / AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR (Photo credit should read KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images)

Protestors gather in Center City Philadelphia, PA, ahead of the April 15 Tax Day March. Around the nation thousands are expected to participate in similar protests against the Trump-administration. (Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Protestor holds a sign during a Tax Day protest rally and march in Center City Philadelphia, on April 15, 2017. Around the nation thousands are expected to participate in similar protests against the Trump-administration. (Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Protestors take part in the 'Tax March' to call on US President Donald Trump to release his tax records on April 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. / AFP PHOTO / Mandel Ngan (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

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Footage has also emerged that shows a protester throwing a punch into the crowd, but the camera does not capture who's on the receiving end or if it connects.

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