Former New York
mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Tuesday that he supported President-elect
Donald Trump’s decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton over her
use of a private email server. However, he said he would also support
Trump in the prosecution, should he change his mind
'Alt-right'
Donald Trump supporters express dismay at disavowal
Some
spoke out on Reddit and 4chan after Trump distanced himself from the
far-right movement and appeared to walk back on his most extreme
policies
Nicky Woolf in San
Francisco
Wednesday 23
November 2016 01.48 GMT
President-elect
Donald Trump’s disavowal of Richard Spencer and his far-right
thinktank the National Policy Institute, a day after video of
Spencer’s supporters giving the Nazi salute at an event in
Washington DC surfaced, has dismayed some of his supporters on the
“alt-right”.
“This constant
virtue signaling needs to finally end, otherwise our civilization
will simply collapse,” a commenter wrote underneath the article of
Trump’s disavowal on right-wing news site Breitbart.
People in the myriad
“alt-right” communities that have flourished online in recent
years are also expressing their displeasure that Trump appears to
have abandoned the most extreme of his policies – at least for now
– such as building a wall and prosecuting Hillary Clinton.
They also objected
to his visiting of the New York Times for an on-the-record meeting on
Tuesday, at which Trump described the news organization as a “world
jewel”.
On /pol/, the
political discussion board of the anonymous message-board 4chan, one
poster wrote: “Already reneging on his word before he even takes
office?! People will remember that.”
A post on Reddit’s
r/altright board, one of the movement’s home bases, linked to
Trump’s disavowal at the New York Times meeting and asked: “Anyone
here feeling bamboozled by the Donald?” Dozens of commenters
responded.
“You are fooled if
you think Trump was going to give us some sort of permission slip to
start cleansing America. He isn’t our ‘man on a white horse’,”
on said.
Another wrote:
“Trump can’t be non-negative on the alt-right. We support him
because he agrees with us on important policy goals, not because he
flatters us.”
Over on 4chan’s
/pol/, fierce discussion was raging on the issue of how to deal with
Richard Spencer and his neo-Nazi event. Many thought that Trump was
right to disavow him.
Another wrote: “The
leaders of the Alt-Right no longer look like attractive, young,
rebellious counter-culture intellectuals, but now they look like fat,
dumb racists.”
Opinion on the board
was split, with many saying that the entire debacle was a “false
flag” operation cooked up to discredit their movement, and others –
a small minority – calling for the board to rally in support of
Spencer.
On Reddit’s
r/The_Donald board, one of the most popular pro-Trump corners of the
internet, supporters urged patience in the face of signs discouraging
to the “alt-right”, like the rumors that Mitt Romney was the
frontrunner for secretary of state.
One post urged
people to “stay fucking calm” until the appointment of Romney –
who is a reviled figure amongst the “alt-right” – was reported
by Breitbart.
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