Is the Alt-Right Even 'Alt' anymore?

极右翼是否还能算作“另类”?

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2025-02-24

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The Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, wrapped up Saturday. While billionaire Elon Musk ate up a lot of the attention by wielding an actual chainsaw on stage to symbolize his attacks on government waste (and subtlety), the annual conservative conference featured a host of other speakers with far-right ties. That included people like Jack Posobiec, a right-wing influencer who was recently invited to travel with members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet. Elle Reeve, CNN reporter and author of the book ‘Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics,’ talks about how the far-right got a foothold in the U.S. government. And in headlines: Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he’ll step down as president of Ukraine if it means his country can join NATO, President Donald Trump ousted the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Musk issued another ultimatum to federal workers.
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  • It's Monday, February 24th.

  • I'm Jane Coston and this is Wataday, the show that has never launched a meme coin, mostly because it doesn't really know how.

  • On today's show, Ukraine's president says he'll step down if it means his country can join NATO.

  • And President Trump purges the top ranks of the Pentagon and including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

  • But first, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or cpac, wrapped up Saturday.

  • A wretched hive of scum, villainy, and whatever this was.

  • This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.

  • Chainsaw?

  • That man has 13 children.

  • Yes, that is Elon Musk, the world's richest man and government job killer, wielding a chainsaw given to him by Javier Milei, the president of Argentina.

  • I'm telling you, it got weird.

  • Anyway, among the speakers at this year's CPAC was a guy named Jack Posobiek.

  • He's a longtime right wing activist and a pretty big fan of the President.

  • Here's how he defended Trump's blitzkrieg of questionably legal orders on Friday.

  • Donald Trump is not violating the Constitution.

  • Donald Trump is restoring the American Constitution.

  • Donald Trump is the living embodiment of the American Constitution.

  • So who is this guy?

  • Jack Posobiek?

  • Well, remember the Pizzagate conspiracy theory?