Conservatives try to rebrand progressives as "alt-left"

[portlander23]

What Is The Alt-Left? Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Climate Science Cited By Right As Evidence Of Extreme Liberalism
Tim Marcin
International Business Times

Unlike the alt-right, there aren't many folks calling themselves a part of the alt-left. It's a term in direct response to the attention placed on the alt-right, a group with whom many Republicans would rather not be associated. In a move seemingly aimed at countering the bad press the alt-right brings, members of the GOP and others have taken to labeling Democrats "alt-left" if they consider them extremely liberal.

The conservative-leaning advocacy group One Nation, for instance, put out a statement this month slamming the "alt-left" politicians Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, the Washington Post reported. The term originated with alt-right sites like World Net Daily, migrated to Fox News' Sean Hannity and eventually landed with the president-elect himself.

Since Trump's election, the term has been used even more. Hannity slammed the "alt-left mainstream media," McGill University professor/columnist Gil Troy wrote a Time magazine piece titled, "The Bernie Sanders–fueled alt-left viciously attacked me," and Fox News ran a piece titled, "Liberals get hysterical over the 'alt-right' but we are living in their 'alt-left' world."

The Fox News piece, however, argued the alt-left had long pushed a radical agenda on the U.S. It argued that since the 2011 "Occupy" movement, it had grown worse, citing everything from celebrities who push to stop climate change, to the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, to people bringing up decades-old accusations of racism against Trump Attorney General-designate Sen. Jeff Sessions.

I dunno what's on the other extreme from white supremacists and fascists, but I'll take it.

[etherealtruth]

1. if what they mean is people that will fight for equality for all people ....

.... without regard to race, ethnicity, religion (or absence of), country of origin, sex (orientation ... ), gender ... I will take it.

[Freethinker65]

2. Guess using the term alt-right is getting to them

About time! Very hard to make a positive sounding term like "progressive" sound threatening....but they did a masterful job at demonizing the word "liberal", so who knows?

[gratuitous]

3. Sorry boys, we're mainstream liberals

You fuckers chose to call yourselves alt-right, just like the Tea Baggers chose their name. You don't like it? Too bad. Maybe you should go to your safe space so the trigger warnings don't get you.

We outnumber you. We outvoted you. And we're not giving up, because most Americans agree with us and our agenda. The only unfortunate thing is that you'll receive the benefit of the programs we will enact, just like everyone else, because we believe in the Constitution, not your trumped-up authority figures.

[onecaliberal]

4. Diverse people loving in the extreme. You can say that about us all day long ..

[alarimer]

5. Climate change is not a liberal conspiracy.

You cannot even put that in the same category. Sanders and Warren, among others, do have a certain viewpoint (one that is not all that "alt" in fact, but pretty mainstream these days).

But the science behind climate change is not at all political, neither is evolution or vaccines.

[kacekwl]

6. Now you have to know

that will be the go to word on the M$M Sunday shows.