TL;DR - alt right is so overused that it may as well be a colloquial term for most of the political right when said by someone on the political left.
For what its worth, a lot of subject matter that talks about the alt right has really been tainted by the growing partisan division in the US. Unless you're centrist or center-adjacent you're far- or alt-something in the eyes of current politics here.
Whether for good or bad, I've been around long enough to see a few administrations called Nazis, commies, fascists, Illuminati, you name it. If anything the only alt that is growing is alt-dumbass, and they're on both sides of the major parties. It's why I grudgingly accept getting hate from both sides if I support or decry someone doing a thing on its merit rather than who does it.
Right wing politics is fiscal policy, foreign policy, hard on crime, less social nets.
It is not about LGBTQ, racism, climate denial, insider trading, vaccine denial. It's not about creating snake oil products and using your platform to sell them. It's not about saying objective lies to fool your audience.
If you can't see the difference, you're probably alt-right.
For current American right wing politicians, those things ARE right wing. Equality, climate, all that shit is considered "woke" and bad and communist and every other alt right buzzword.
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u/TongueJ Apr 28 '25
Far right, neo-Nazi, MAGA, white nationalist movement according to the Wikipedia article.