AN INTERVIEW with alt-right figure “Ricky Vaughn”:

WG: You definitely fall comfortably within the spectrum of the growing Alt Right movement. Why is the Alt Right drawing so much new-found support and what led up to that?

RV: The alt-right is drawing support because its criticisms of mainstream politics are correct. . . . The alt-right is also gaining support because there has been a rather clumsy all-out assault by the mainstream media, academia, and government, on White people and even non-White people who identify with historic America. They are also assaulting our traditions and our morals, so people are looking for answers, and the alt-right is providing the correct critique to modernity and mainstream politics, by and large. . . .

WG: . . . How do you respond to people claiming that the nativist positions of the Alt Right are racist?

RV: Well, I think we have done a pretty good job of exposing the people who think that facts are racist, or that jokes are racist, or that the truth is racist. And now, where you used to have cuckservatives and sh*tliberals crying out racist and ending the discussion, now they are largely staying silent or refusing to argue so as to avoid being embarrassed, which is a good thing because it lets us fill the void and spread our criticisms unopposed. Still others have started to consider our criticisms and adopt them, even some in the mainstream conservative media. The term racist is a totally emotionally loaded word. Most people cannot define it when asked. So the best response to being called racist is to mock the person using it as a slur, or to point out that they are trying to end discussion by using this word, or to even ask them if they can even define the word.