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And heres Eric Boehlert of Shareblue, the social media network that was created by David Brock to help lead the online resistance to Trump:

Liberals often use alt-left to describe progressives they consider rude or with whom they have Twitter beef; it is personal animus disguised as politics. James Wolcott, writing in Vanity Fair in March, captured the general spirit of disdain and irritation:

Disillusionment with Obamas presidency, loathing of Hillary Clinton, disgust with identity politics, and a craving for a climactic reckoning that will clear the stage for a bold tomorrow have created a kinship between the alt-right and an alt-left. Theyre not kissin cousins, but they caterwaul some of the same tunes in different keys.

The events of Charlottesville should clarify that the only tune the so-called alt-left is singing is that it hates fascists. And yet Markos Moulitsas, founder of what is supposed to be one of the most progressive blogs in the world, decided to regurgitate red-baiting canards the very day a white supremacist killed a counter-protester:

The function of the term alt-left is to collapse the distinction between the activist left and the racist right. Thats why reactionaries like Sean Hannity use it. Thats why Donald Trump has taken it up. We are likely to hear a lot more about the alt-left in the coming months and yearsand if liberals continue to use it, they will be doing the right-wings work.

So it is time for the entire left to permanently retire the term. It insults the dead and the work the left is doing to stop the rise of fascism in our country. It serves the cause of the right wing, amplifying its noxious tactics of delegitimization. These liberals have invested a lot of energy in an effort to discredit anyone sitting to their left. They are so furious, so disturbed by the emergence of this invigorated movement, that they paint them with the brush of fascismeven while the very people they vilify are on the streets fighting the Ku Klux Klan. In so doing, they have served the purposes of Donald Trump and no one else.

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Liberals Helped Create Trump's New Bogeyman, the Alt-Left - New Republic