You can see how it might happen. One day, you’re railing against the mean words directed at you by people to the left of you, the next day you find you’ve facilitated Nazi-enabling false equivalences from the US president. This, after all, is the potted trajectory of the term “alt-left” — a label invented by the “alt-right” (itself a sanitising term) and then taken up by so-called moderates on both sides of the Atlantic. Fast forward to last week, when President Trump suggested that those protesting the gun-carrying Nazi-saluters and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, were the alt-left and just as bad — a situation for which we must at least in part credit those who helped bring this bogus term into the mainstream in