The other day, we noted how after years of helping to normalize the racist Alt-Right, the organizers of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) are now trying to distance themselves from the movement. This is despite the fact that this year's conference features a main stage interview with White House strategist Steve Bannon, who just last year bragged about turning Breitbart, a prominent CPAC sponsor, into “the platform for the Alt-Right."
This morning, Dan Schneider of the American Conservative Union, which organizes CPAC, delivered a speech titled "The Alt Right Ain’t Right at All” in which he tried to claim that the Alt-Right has no place within the conservative movement because the term "Alt-Right" has been hijacked by "a hate-filled left wing fascist group" for the purpose of confusing people about what conservatism really represents.
"They stole the term specifically to confuse us," Schneider stated. "They are anti-Semites, they are racists, they are sexists, they hate the Constitution, they hate free markets, they hate pluralism, they despise everything we believe in. They are not an extension of conservatism ... They are nothing but garden variety left-wing fascists."
Of course, blaming far-right racism on the left is nothing new for conservatives.
