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user-inactivated · 2921 days ago · link · · parent · post: The alt-right is more than warmed-over white supremacy. It’s that, but way way weirder.
Libertarians were irrelevant until the tea baggers got people into office. Ayn Rand was a joke to real philosophers all along, but we put a guy who took her seriously in charge of the Federal Reserve for 20 years. These guys are Boyd Rice except boring, but the fringes leak towards the center enough that it's worth paying a little attention to them.