Colin Liddell has written another stinging article on the alt-right.

As I have explained, I am on the road so this will be a very brief response. I can only type this out through my smartphone.

1.) Voted for Gore in 2000. I disliked George W. Bush before he was president.

2.) Discovered Pat Buchanan in 2001.

3.) Voted for Kerry in 2004 out of sheer hatred of George W. Bush over Iraq.

4.) Supported Ron Paul in the Republican primary in 2008 because of his America First foreign policy.

5.) Voted Constitution Party in 2008. Refused to support neocon John McCain over Obama.

6.) Supported Ron Paul again in 2012.

7.) Urged Northern readers to vote for Mitt Romney as a shit test in 2012. Voted for Constitution Party in 2012.

8.) Voted for Trump in 2016 in the primary and general election over the MAGA agenda.

9.) Voting for Yang in 2020 over UBI, student loans, health care, infrastructure, postal banking, democracy dollars and other good economic policies.

Now, if I had been older in the 1990s, I would have gladly voted for Pat Buchanan in 1992 and 1996 because I am simply a populist and nationalist voter. I would have voted for George Wallace in all his presidential campaigns and as governor of Alabama. My in-laws fell in love working on the Wallace campaigns. George Wallace himself was from where I am from in Alabama.

Alabama and the Deep South has a long history of being a hotbed of populism: Theodore “The Man” Bilbo of Mississippi, Huey “The Kingfish” Long of Louisiana, George Wallace of Alabama, Tom Watson of Georgia, etc. We organized this rally in support of the Tom Watson statue in 2013:

There have always been Southerners who have combined a sense of economic fairness with social conservatism and fiery rhetoric. This political orientation has been called different things at different times throughout history. The “alt-right” label is merely an ephemeral manifestation among Millennials of this enduring populist political tendency. This was especially true after the 1890s and during the first half of the 20th century when it was out in the open and not submerged underneath mainstream conservatism in the GOP as it has been since the Reagan days.