White Nationalist Leader Turns on Trump, Warns That Alt-Right Won’t Be ‘Retarded Cousin’ of Mainstream Conservatives

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“I believe the radical energies and deep yearning for change that flowed into the Trump campaign in 2015 and 2016 are now receding with the tide,” Brad Griffin, a self-described Southern Nationalist, wrote on his blog, Occidental Dissent. “I’m confident the Democrats will come roaring back in the 2018 midterms. I don’t want to be associated with ‘MAGA’ because our policies were discarded by the Trump administration.”

Griffin, who helped organize a so-called White Lives Matter rally in Tennessee in October and publishes under the pseudonym Hunter Wallace, has earned a reputation for being among the more cogent and discerning commentators in the white nationalist community. {snip} Among his gripes with the president, Griffin mentioned in his post the airstrike on Syria in April, the attempt to undo health care reform, the tax reform effort and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s promises to make a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. {snip}

He added: “In 2017, the Trump administration didn’t want anything to do with us and dropped us like a hot potato after the election.”

In his post, Griffin reminded readers of a warning he gave prior to Trump taking power, suggesting that the alt-right movement would not be content to be “locked in the basement” of mainstream conservatism and “treated like a retarded cousin for the next four years.” {snip}

{snip} Griffin suggested that people will see less “activism” from the alt-right in 2018.

{snip} On Alt-Right Politics, a podcast co-hosted by Richard Spencer, one of the most visible faces of the movement, he and others have been critical of Trump for ignoring his promise to build a wall along the southern border. {snip}