“They called themselves the ‘alt-right,’” former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie, a Republican said at an NAACP forum a month. “They are not on any legitimate political spectrum of left to right. If on a scale of one to 10 – one is the most liberal, and 10 is most conservative – these people are a yellow. They’re not on the same continuum.”

Gillespie, who titled his political memoir “Winning Right,” was not just defending his side of the political divide.