How the alt-right uses the president
Aug 17, 2017, 6:58 AM
(File, AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
HBO on Tuesday broadcast a Vice News documentary on Charlottesville, Virginia focusing on Christopher Cantwell, one of the alt-right organizers of the Charlottesville rally.
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“Donald Trump is not doing anything I find particularly useful, frankly…”
Reporter Elle Reeve and her crew actually jumped into Cantwell’s escape van when the fighting started. They ended up talking for hours with all of it, including the outtakes, recorded by Cantwell to protect himself.
“… worst case scenario, you’re going to go out of your way to make me look like an [expletive deleted], at which point I’m going to have to prove you’re dishonest people, right?”
Along with the talk about race statistics, and creating a white homeland, and how it’s sometimes tough to get a date, he also explains he had a plan to exploit the president’s reaction, no matter what he said.
“When Donald Trump comes out and condemns all hate, bigotry, and violence, then we have to say Donald Trump understands we were attacked. And if Donald Trump came out and said I hate The Daily Stormer, then, Andrew, I’m going to have to publish a piece that I understand, Mr. President, you had to do it.”
What he’s saying is he was ready to turn any statement to his advantage.
“So, if Donald Trump came out today and said Christopher Cantwell of the radical agenda is the worst person who ever lived, I’d make it part of the introduction music to the Radical Agenda [his podcast], and that is information warfare.”
The way Cantwell sees it, it’s a victory either way. The only way he could’ve lost would be if the other side hadn’t engaged, or if social media didn’t exist.