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This past weekend our great nation once again sat back and rooted for injuries on the far ends of both sides of the political spectrum, as Tax Day protestors clashed with pro-Trump supporters in theda Starbucks-ridden, gentrified urban wastelands of Berkeley, again.

Your challengers? On the left: the black-masked, hoodie-clad, spoke-roach brigade of Antifa: a far left, anarchist, communist whateverist campus movement hellbent on proving Trump right about everything. On the right: Alt-Right memelord weekend warrior Trump supporters in batting cage helmets and American flag capes, arriving to do battle, while most likely lying to their wives that they were just stepping out to Home Depot for a bit.

Fists were thrown; Americas leading Mindset Expert was gently fondled; tear gas was dispersed and Pepsi offered. News helicopters captured footage of Antifa and the Pepe Army playing Red Rover with what must have been a super-entitled dumpster that needed to check its privilege.

While these weekend skirmishes are humorous to most, great for the window-replacement business, and fine for the cops getting paid overtime, I cant help but step back and wonder why exactly these two sides of hot pocket warriors are doing battle with each other. They agree with each other on almost everything.

While stipulating that the glaring difference is America for Americans plastered over a big beautiful wall vs. a rainbow saturated pan-racial utopia, thats not what these campus protest soires are strictly about. This all basically boils down to which group of misfits has control of the Twitter-conch at any given moment. But ideologically speaking? These are two groups throwing comically weak punches at one another without stopping to realize that they believe in almost the exact same policies.

Healthcare? Antifa college activists fall in line right behind Grandpa Bernie Sanders in advocating universal government paid healthcare for allwhich happens to be the exact same position taken byDonald Trump (both during the campaign, and after theAHCA fallout). This has been known as far back as 2015. Several thought leaders of the new alt right endorse single payer healthcare as well.

Not two weeks ago, both sides also found themselves aligned on the issue of bombing Syria. The conductors of the Trump Train oppose foreign intervention with the proclamation America First, while the far left sees Trump as another Hitler W. Bush, bombing the browner peoples of the world to juice his approval ratings and personally enrich the family wealth. Both believe in a strong patrimonial government, as embodied by a powerful federal bureaucracy.One side believes government is their all-providing Father. The other calls it Daddy.

Which brings us to the core issue of speech and the freedom or limits thereof. But one group is about shutting down free speech! No, silly normie, actually both are. Antifa manifests their anti-speech authoritarianism on college campuses against speakers they dont like (or whoever the groups they follow on Facebook tell them not to like). The alt-right attempts to bury anyone online who dares speak out against their God-Emperor on social media, while simultaneously celebratinghis musings about the need to re-examine First Amendment U.S. libel law.

Furthermore, both sides manifest their strong political emotions into physical aggression. Antifa doesnt like Milo Yiannopoulos coming to speak? Sweet: trash some buildings, start some fires, show the colors! Chest thumping alpha male gorilla mind is a staple of the MAGA Mindset. During the campaign, several instances of violence broke out at Trump rallies, when the candidate egged on the crowd from the stage. Antifa pepper sprayed a girl in a hat that read Make Bitcoin great again, mistaking it for a Trump MAGA hat. A Trump supporter this past weekend lobbed a punch at a female Antifa activist he, in all probability, thought was a guy. This week a Trump supporter who assaulted a protestor is now suing Trump, claiming Trump made him do it. Good luck with that.

It may simply come down to this: Parties do not exist anymore. There is no left vs right. We are grunting pockets of enclaves and Twitter lists and one side may not like anotherany more simply because of the letter they wear on their chest. Tribalism rules all, even if that tribe sees eye to eye with your tribe.

Antifa activists may look at Trump and see some of the worst authoritarian impulses they and their idols of literature also possess (Their name Antifa is borrowed from Anti-Facism Leninists of the Bolshevik movement, of which Steve Bannon reportedly was also a fan). Spartan helmet wearing MAGA Warriors may look at how the media romanticizes movements of the far left like Black Lives Matter, Occupy and Antifa, and decided they want in on the adulation and the action. Some claim to just be tired and want pushback, but pushback againstwhat? Antifa is torching their own campuses and their own cities.

Whatever it is, both sides ought to take heed of advice from the Gipper himself: The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally not a 20 percent traitor. Both sides should pump the breaks on the fist throwing and share a Pepsi with their young fellow statists.

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New Face: White nationalist and leading alt-right figure Richard Spencer addresses a crowd at Texas A&M University in December.

Auburn University announced on Friday that alt-right leader Richard Spencers scheduled speech on campus would be cancelled.

The Alabama university had previously stated that while they deplore his views, the school also supports the constitutional right to free speech. But in a notice posted on their website on Friday afternoon, the administration announced that they had cancelled the event based on legitimate concerns and credible evidence that it will jeopardize the safety of students, faculty, staff and visitors.

Spencer, who had already paid $700 out of his own pocket for renting an auditorium and providing security, told The Plainsman, the Auburn student newspaper, that he was not going to allow that to happen.

Auburn is going to rue the day that they made this total bullshit decision, he said. I will not back down. I will be there. This is going to be so much bigger than they ever imagined.

He also posted a video to YouTube pledging that If Auburn University thinks that Im going to back down because they cancelled on me, that I just going to politely go away, then they dont know me at all. I will 100 percent be on Auburn Universitys campus at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18.

Contact Aiden Pink at pink@forward.com or on Twitter at @aidenpink.

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Auburn University Cancels Speech By 'Alt-Right' Leader Richard Spencer - Forward

Donald Trump's dropping of an 11 ton bomb on a complex of tunnels in Eastern Afghanistan Thursday, killed 92 Isis militants, according to the Afghan government.

Mohammad Radmanesh, the deputy spokesman for the Afghan ministry of defence, said:

After the bomb, when we checked the tunnels, we took out around 100 dead bodies. They all died in the bombing.

The bombing took place the week after the firing of 59 Tomahawk Cruise missiles from the USS Porter and USS Ross into the Sharyat airfield in Western Homs, Syria, as a retaliation to the alleged use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad's regime.

The strikes have been reacted to negatively by some anti-interventionist Trump supporters, given his isolationist stance on the campaign trail.

Prominent alt-right media figures were quick to criticise following the Syria strikes:

In short, "America first" seems a very,very long time ago for the American right wing.

While his approval ratings remain the worst a modern president has seen in his first few months in office, they didn't tumble as a result of the strikes - possibly because he picked up some praise from centre and left pro-interventionists for the military action.

Or perhaps noone cared enough for it to change their approval sentiment:

So what reasons do the Alt-Right suggest were behind the decision for these recent military operations by a president who repeatedly said he would reduce American operations abroad?

Rather than argue that he's listening to generals and intelligence briefings, or pivoting to curry more favour with China in North Korea, or dropping bombs to dispel notions that he's a Russian-installed President, they've gone for a more disgusting and implausible theory.

David Duke, the former head of the Ku Klux Klan and white nationalist, wrote on his blog that the growing interventionist policies and the diminshing influence of Steve Bannon were evidence of a "Jewish coup":

All around him are these Jewish extremists like Kushner. Trump might not even know half the things they do.

Which is to be expected from a racist.

Likewise, prominent white supremacist Richard Spencer, tweeted:

On Infowars, the conspiracy theorist news website and programme, infamous blogger Mike Cernovich told host Alex Jones a slightly different explanation as to whythey both are moderating their previous ardent support of the President:

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.

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.

Either way, his approval among Republicans doesn't seem to have been drastically affected.

So while the far right Republican commentariat and white nationalists seem to hate the military interventions, the voters don't seem to care all that much.

More: Donald Trump Jr endorsed Mike Cernovich. Here are some of his tweets

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The Alt-Right is trying to explain away Trump's campaign u-turns in the worst way - The indy100

Berkeley, California, was the epicenter of the left-wing protest culture that dominated the news during the 1960s. More than 50 years later, the San Francisco has once again become ahub for demonstrators, this time of a much more violent variety. Over the weekend, hard-core supporters of President Donald Trump repeatedly clashed in the street with the leftist anarchists who call themselves antifas, an abbreviation for anti-fascists.

The clashes began in February after a mob of antifa activists showed up outside a scheduled event that was to feature former Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos and began lighting objects on fire and attacking hissupporters. The violent disruptions prompted the University of California to nixthe speech. The cancellation of the event became national news after President Donald Trump weighed in on the controversy, casting the blame on the university but not the demonstrators:

Trump supporters further escalated the situation by scheduling a second rally for March 4, which featured more violence as members of the extreme alt-right movement began mingling withregular Republicans.After even bigger fights broke out at March 25 rallies in Southern California and in Philadelphia, far-right groups decided to descend upon Berkeley to protect Trump supporters.

This is just the beginning, wrotea member ofthe neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer.This is a sign that we have moved into a new era in the Nazification of America. Normie Trump supporters are becoming racially aware and Jew wise. They are willing to stick up for themselves side by side with Nazis without being adverse to violence.

This pastSaturday, a pro-Trump demonstration again broke out into fisticuffs as several thousand protesters began attacking one another with almost no police seeming to be interested in dispersing the violence.Saturdays rioting featured extensive violence with both sides hurling fireworks, bottles and even bagels. At one point, a racist activist was filmed punching a female antifa demonstrator in the face.

According to Frances Dinkelspiel, a Berkeley-based news reporter, local police have an official policyofnot intervening in small physical conflicts between citizens since doing so could increase the risk of injury. Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauerwas on the sceneand asked several police officers why they were doing nothing in response to the widespread violence:

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This is just the beginning: Alt-right rejoices as violent protests rock Berkeley - Salon

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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'Alt-Right' Sticks With Trump Despite 'Jewish Coup' - Forward