What is the alt left?

On Tuesday, the president said the "alt-left" was partly responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend. read more

There’s no such thing as the alt-left. To understand why, you first need to understand the extremist movement within the Republican party. The idea of the alt-right is largely credited to Richard Spencer, a white nationalist. read more

The Alt-Left also believes that racial, ethnic, sexual, and religious identity is essential not incidental to character—as evidenced from the profound by the recent racialist statements of would-be candidates to head the DNC, to the ridiculous, as the careerist-driven and invented identities of a Sen. Elizabeth Warren or Ward Churchill or former white/black activists such as Rachel Dolezal and Shaun King attest. read more

The alt-left, meanwhile, is a purely pejorative description. Few, if any, people on the left claim to be part of anything called the alt-left, as the term was created in an attempt to demean leftists and imply they are morally equivalent to the alt-right. read more