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https://theringer.com/new-left-media-current-affairs-chapo-trap-house-crooked-media-9cb016070532#.e95iok73g
In a recent column for Vanity Fair, the writer James Wolcott lumped many of these types of publications and their writers under the label “alt-left,” joining them to the Trumpian alt-right under the banner of their mutual discontent with Obama and Clinton, as well as what he called a desire for a “climactic reckoning.” “They’re not kissin’ cousins,” Wolcott wrote, “but they caterwaul some of the same tunes in different keys.”
March 24, 2017