The Alt-Right asserts a 19th century continental European nationalism of ethnic, racial, linguistic, cultural cohesion (along with Christendom's centuries-long anti-Semitism) that only later metastasized into full blown fascism.
But it took some specific ideologues to lead one strand of that nationalism into racial supremacy and purity on steroids combined with propaganda and violence as alternate paths to political power.
Nonetheless, it is an understanding of nationalism very different from the Enlightenment values of reason, liberty, progress, tolerance, constitutional government, and secularism that forms the basis of American nationalism as envisioned by the founders, the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
Confedernazis are violent by definition. There ARE no pacifist Confedernazis who believe in democratic process and the rule of law. THIS IS THE DISTINCTION between them and social / economic conservatives, on the one hand, and Pat Buchanan Alt-Right nativists and racial or ethnic supremacists on the other.
All Confedernazis are alt-right. Not all alt-right are Confedernazis as they have not crossed the line to violence over democratic process (though some Confedernazis USE democratic process to their temporary pathway to power as did Mussolini and Hitler).
I would advise folks to not be so naïve as to think one is rallying to preserve history when the folks next to you are wearing hoods and militia uniforms (and weapons) and shouting slogans and carrying symbolism associated with the Klan and Nazi rallies.
THESE PEOPLE ARE IMPLICITLY AND EXPLICITLY THREATENING AND SOMETIMES INSTIGATING VIOLENCE. DON'T BE AN EFFING IDIOT.
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