The following text that recently appeared on the Frontpage Mag website was prepared as my response to the furor that I seem to have aroused by coining the term “Alternative Right.” The greater furor was of course created by Hillary Clinton and her decision to go after Donald Trump by linking him to something I had once given a name to.

After I used the designation in a speech given at the H.L. Mencken Club in November 2008, Richard Spencer (now head of NPI) shortened it to “Altright” and built his own movement around it.

My complicated relation to that movement, or cluster of tendencies(including VDARE.com itself) looking for a unifying movement, is explained in the commentary that I was asked to write for Frontpage Mag I doubt my comments will satisfy everyone in what is now called “Altright” but then the text was not constructed to glorify anyone—least of all myself. Although I make no bones about preferring Altright (warts and all) to Conservatism, Inc..

I also underline the reasons that I have remained at some distance from my subject. Perhaps at a future time this will change.