Alt-right
far-right ideologies presented as an alternative to mainstream conservatism originating in the United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The alt-right is a right-wing political movement originating in the United States.[1] There are many different type of people in the alt-right. They include white nationalists, antifeminists, manospherians, conservatives, Christians, nationalists and men's rights activists.[2] The group is said to have influenced the 2016 United States presidential election in favor of the winning candidate Donald Trump.[3] The term "Alt-right" is said to have been coined by Richard B. Spencer, who is a political writer and the current president of the nationalist think-tank National Policy Institute.[4]
The alt-right originated on 4chan and other fringe corners of the Internet, such as Know Your Meme and Encyclopedia Dramatica.[source?] It emerged during the aftermath of the 2012 episode about Fobos-Grunt on the English Wikipedia and Gamergate in 2014.[5]
As the years pass since Trump's victory in 2016, the alt-right began to splinter, and its split accelerated following the 2017 Charlottesville incident, with those on the Internet saying they don't like Trump anymore.[6]
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