Alt-right rallies in Charlottesville, VA

[Belsnickel]

(08-14-2017, 11:20 PM)RoyleRedlegs Wrote: But they aren't.

I don't think you can be a member of the right (small gov't, fiscal conservatism) and also be a national socialist. 

They've just used that label as a way to legitimize themselves and calling them that only emboldens them and pushes actual members of the political right further away from being able to partake in politics. 

I have to disagree with you. In political science, there are of course many ideologies. Because our country is inherently within the classical liberalism spectrum, most ideologies fit along the original and modern dilemmas. The original dilemma concerns itself with freedom v. order, the modern concerns itself with freedom v. equality. Within classical liberalism, all of the ideologies believe in limited government, to an extent and for certain things.

The four overarching ideological boxes we use for these are libertarianism, liberalism, conservatism, and communitarianism.


The alt-right movement does fall within the conservatism square because conservatism does not call for small government when dealing with societal order.