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White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Feb. 23. Bannon said the media is "adamantly opposed to" the president's agenda. (The Washington Post)

Leading conservatives have taken to pretending that the alt-right is a fringe movement that they and President Trump have disavowed. In recent interviews and at a high-profile conservative conference last month, conservatives have taken great pains to distance conservatism and the Trump administration from any alt-right influence.

But heres the reality: The alt-rights deep influence over this White House is on display daily in Trumps rhetoric and his administrations policies. The alt-right influence on Trump matters: it means the most powerful man in the world is under the influence of a racist and white nationalist movement. And conservatives should reckon with this more forthrightly.

For instance, note this podcast that the Washington Posts Jonathan Capehart conducted with American Conservative Union president Matt Schlapp. Capehart pointed out that Stephen K. Bannon and Stephen Miller are Trumps top White House advisers, and asked: Doesnt that mean, that despite the concerns, the alt-right is now mainstreamed, if not the power within the White House? Schlapp flatly denied that the alt-right had been mainstreamed in this manner.

Bannon who is now Trumps most influential adviser told melast summer, when he was chairman of Breitbart, that his site was the platform for the alt-right. Capehart questioned Schlapp about this, but Schlapp argued, implausibly, that this is not as significant as it appears. Schlapp insisted that when Bannon said that Breitbart is the platform for the alt-right, he wasnttrying to endorse the racist ideology of that group. Yet Breitbart was and remains one-stop shopping for readers looking for anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-refugee rhetoric and disinformation, as well as stories about black crime.

This echoed similar head-in-the sand denials that were on full display last month at the ACUs Conservative Political Action Conference. For instance,Dan Schneider, the ACUs executive director, delivereda speech denouncing the alt-right but not as the far-right white nationalist movement that it is, but rather as garden variety left-wing fascists. By attempting (not very convincingly) to pin the movement on the left, Schneider sought to portray the alt-right as an interloper thatis not exerting any influence over Trump or his conservative supporters.

But hours later, Schlapp welcomed Bannon for an interview on the CPAC main stage. Schlapp didnt ask Bannon a single question about the alt-right or about what Bannon meant when he claimed that his web site was a platform for it.

The reality is that itisunder Bannons influence that the administration has taken its actions that most thrill the alt-right, most notably his moves to step up deportation of undocumented immigrants, and ban refugees and migrants from Muslim-majority countries.

When Bannon and I spoke this summer, he tried to deny to me that the alt-right is a white nationalist movement, although he did concede that white nationalists and anti-Semites could be attracted to some of thephilosophies of the alt-right. But, as I have writtenafter Trump tapped himto head up his campaign, Bannon nonetheless praised the deeply Islamophobic ethno-nationalism on the rise in Europe, like the National Front in France, led by far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.

No, they aren't just pranksters and they aren't an extension of European nationalism. Reporter and author Olivia Nuzzi tackles five myths about the alt-right. (Adriana Usero/The Washington Post)

And then theres Trumps choice of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. During the transition, alt-right leaders were delighted with the Sessions pick, pointing to his opposition to immigration as well as their hope that he would stop enforcing civil rights laws and might even prosecute Black Lives Matter protesters.

As Emily Bazelon writes, Sessions has long been a devoted Breitbart reader, and met regularly with the sites writers. Trumps dark vision of America as besieged by inner city crime, immigrants, and refugees, Bazelon notes, provides clear justification for policies that will advance Sessions, Bannon and Millers divisive nationalism. Justice Department policy, under Sessions, she adds, aims to strengthen the grip of law enforcement, raise barriers to voting and significantly reduce all forms of immigration, promoting what seems to be a longstanding desire to reassert the countrys European and Christian heritage.

Indeed, Sessions is altering the core mission of the Department of Justice to one with less of a focus on civil and voting rights. Trumps false claims about voter fraud are straight out of the ugly maw of alt-right meme-making, portraying supposed voter fraud as a scourge perpetrated by African-Americans and undocumented immigrants a possible signal that a crackdown on voting rights is coming, one that Sessions would likely help carry out from the Justice Department.

Despite the determined spin, the reality is that Trumpism would not exist without the alt-right. Conservatives can pretend its fringe and has little to no influence on the Trump administration but the proof is in the policy.

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Faculty talk Alt-Right movement

By Benjamin Bassham, News Editor March 8, 2017 Filed under Campus Beat

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A faculty-led Flex workshop, intended to be an open forum to discuss the Alternative Right and its ideologies with students and faculty was held from 3-5 p.m. in the Fireside Hall on Feb. 27.

Philosophy professor Asad Kabir hosted the event and presented his interpretation of what the Alt-Right is, and questioned what roles students and faculty should have in the current political climate.

Kabir used a PowerPoint presentation to deliver his impression of the Alt-Right, their interests, and examination of where they overlap with (Steve) Bannon and with (President) Trump.

Kabir skipped most of his prepared material from the Alt-Right and went through their detractors material about the repugnance of their white supremacy.

In particular, Kabir focused on Bannon, assistant to the president and former editor-in-chief of Breitbart News. Kabir said Bannon believes that America is due to go through a period of crisis but Bannon has a plan for the country.

Bannon is the brains of the current government preparing for a crisis. This frame of mind makes them go out to create crisis, Kabir said.

The other participants of the discussion, apart from sharing their dislike of Trump, focused almost exclusively on immigration, sanctuary and concerns over deportation.

English professor Elvia Ornelas-Garcia said, As educators we have to resist.

Kabir bowed to the crowds choice of topic, contributing to plans to resist ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement), and plans for later community resistance against Trumps immigration policies.

ESL professor Anoosheh Borhan said, They can still come into our classrooms. What can we do? What legal aid can be given to students?

ESL professor Susan Marvin said, There have been reports in the news all weekend about people who have been rounded up without proper authority.

Ornelas-Garcia said, ICE agents cannot enter if they do not have a subpoena. A proposed solution, in the event of ICE arriving at a classroom to make an arrest, is to close the door in ICEs face until the end of class and have students call every media outlet possible.

There was even discussion of the possibility of closing down campus to draw media attention.

History department Chairperson Manu Ampim said, This is a nation of laws when it is convenient, and thats always been the case. Citizens need to go out and seize the rights. People have to be willing to put what they have on the line.

Speakers expressed some disquiet that the motion that was passed to make the Contra Costa Community College District never mentioned the word sanctuary, but Ornelas-Garcia said, I believe they (the District Board) received legal advice to stay away from the word sanctuary.

Ornelas-Garcia had a single copy of a card with various advice and notes legal advice, tailored for undocumented immigrants. She suggested similar convenient note cards could be distributed at CCC.

The discussion ran until nearly 5:30 p.m. Kabir tried to draw interest to Bannons racial motivations, but didnt pull much interest. One late-coming guest, who missed the earlier section about the Alt-Right, ventured his opinion the Africans are the dominant race.

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By Anne Applebaum

The issues under debate in this year's French presidential election are broad and varied: terrorism and trade, the retirement age and social security, the legacy of France in Algeria and the future of France in Europe. But in truth, only one issue really matters: Can the heady cocktail of fear-mongering, nationalism, nostalgia, resentment, pro-Russian foreign policy and big-government economics a philosophy that is described, unsatisfyingly, as "far right" or "populist," that takes a particularly virulent online form and that has contributed to recent electoral victories in the United States and Britain be defeated in a major Western country? And if so, how?

At least until scandal began to damage his campaign, Franois Fillon, the candidate of the center-right Republican party, offered what looked like the safest formula: steal the populist issues from the "far right" Marine Le Pen's National Front and make them mainstream. In choosing this strategy, he was emulating Theresa May, the conservative British prime minister who has defeated the upstart U.K. Independence Party by announcing she will leave all European trade structures (as UKIP would have done) and make immigration control her priority (as UKIP does already).

Fillon's version is slightly different he has called for a halt to immigration from outside Europe, tougher borders and tougher language on assimilation of French Muslims but the idea is the same. Like Le Pen, whose campaign has been funded with Russian money, he speaks of friendship with Russia. He talks openly about his Catholicism in a bid to lure France's "family values" voters away from Le Pen, too. But alas, it seems that Fillon's version of family values included putting his wife and sons on the state payroll, a story that just won't go away.

That leaves the contest in the hands of Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old social and economic liberal whose strategy is quite different. It's been clear for some time that the old left-right split in European politics doesn't reflect real social divisions, and that the new fault lines are better described as "integrationist" versus "nationalist," or, more bluntly, "open" vs. "closed." But although the "closed" voices parties such as Le Pen's National Front or UKIP are long established, Macron is the first major European politician to attract mass support by putting up a vigorous, active and angry defense of "open." "I defend Europe," he told a British journalist. "If you are shy, you are dead."

His strategy, so far, has been built on defiance of ideological stereotypes. Macron has a background in banking but speaks about "collective solidarity." He served as a minister in a Socialist government but has said that "honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist." Instead of a traditional political party he has his own movement, En Marche a rough translation might be "Forward" that he launched, to widespread skepticism, in 2016. He has invited U.S. scientists, especially those working on climate change and clean energy, to come live in France. He wants to roll out the red carpet for British academics and businessmen marginalized by May's retreat from Europe, too.

He also attracts enemies. Because his victory would strengthen both the European Union and NATO, Macron's campaign has naturally attracted the attention of those who want to destroy them. Both WikiLeaks (which claims to have "secret documents" on all the candidates) and the Russian propaganda channel RT have attempted to show sinister links between Macron and Hillary Clinton. The predictable whispering campaign is conspiratorial ("Macron is part of a secret cabal"), anti-Semitic ("Macron works for the Rothschilds") and personal ("Macron is gay"). That kind of negative campaigning based on slurs and hysterical allegations has worked brilliantly in other countries, and there is plenty of time left for it to succeed in France.

Macron's success will depend on whether he can withstand the coming smear campaign, and then pull off a trick that has so far eluded his British, Dutch and other counterparts: Unite the center-left and the center-right behind a single banner, and run a campaign that is patriotic as well as "open," tough on terrorism as well as "integrationist."

The stakes are high. If he loses, muscular liberalism will disappear from France for a generation. But if he wins, he will have many eager imitators, not only in France but also across the continent and around the world.

The Washington Post News Service & Syndicate

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A new Irish-English dictionary is available at Focloir.ie, complete with all the translations needed to get you through modern-day life.

With almost 50,000 entries and 3.5million words in English and Irish, you wont be stuck for a translation, whether youre taking a finn, heading for ramhdheochanna or talking about Donald Trumps socha iarfhrinne.

Here are a few of our favourites

Speaking at the launch today, editor Dr Pdraig Mianin said: The New English-Irish Dictionary has brought Irish-language lexicography into the third millennium in every way.

It contains contemporary Irish and English, and covers every level of language use, from formal to informal, from polite to vulgar, and from written to spoken.

This is Foras na Gaeilges first major dictionary project. The writing of the dictionary began almost 10 years ago, in 2008. We are really proud of this work and once this dictionary is published in book form, we hope to continue with Irish-language lexicography and begin work on Irish-Irish and Irish-English dictionaries.

The number of people accessing the dictionary is increasing year-on-year. In 2016, focloir.ie reached 1.2 million unique users. 28% of those users access the dictionary from countries outside of Ireland, with 12% of them in the United States of America.

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Translations for selfies, pre-drinks, alt-right and catfishing included in new Irish dictionary - BreakingNews.ie

"Heil Trump!" cries the member of the Alt-Right.

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Alt-Right, short for Alternative Right, is a set of far-right ideologies, groups and individuals whose core belief is that white identity is under attack by multicultural forces using political correctness and social justice to undermine white people. Characterized by heavy use of social media and online memes, Alt-Righters eschew establishment conservatism, skew young, and embrace white ethno-nationalism as a fundamental value. The Alternative Right is a term coined in 2008 by Richard Bertrand Spencer, who heads the white nationalist think tank known as the National Policy Institute, to describe a loose set of far-right ideals centered on white identity and the preservation of Western civilization.

"The alt-right is old racism for the tech-savvy generation." Giles Fraser

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Another word for white supremacists and neo-nazis.

Person: So you're a racist? Alt-Right: No, I'm part of the alt-right! Person: But you believe that slavery should be reinstituted, think the nazis were right, and believe women shouldn't be able to vote. Alt-Right: Yeah, but I'm not a racist or anything. Person: That's literally the definition of racism.

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Alt-right is the Relaunch of the Nazi party but the press won't call them what they are Nazi's

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A group of internet trolls that believe fiscal conservatism is "too libertarian" so they start advocating for semi-fascism as opposed to regressive leftism which is fascism

Conservative person: Hey why did you become alt right? Alt right person: lmao you dumb cuckservative because jewz

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the alt-right rejects liberal bias of mainstream media

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Alt-right does not mean anything. Does not describe anyone or a group of people that are tangible.

It's an empty word, just like she is.

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'these are racist ideas, race baiting ideas, anti-muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-women, all key tenants making up the emerging racist ideloogy known as the 'alt-right' -Hillary Clinton, speaking in Reno, Nev, August 25, 2016

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