Joan Walsh doesn’t need ‘alt-left’ mansplained to her, thanks very much
As CNN reported last week, “experts” that is, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama say that “alt-left” is just a made-up term, a slur. There is no real equivalent to the “alt-right” across the aisle, as long as you don’t count that extreme fringe in the antifa who wear matching black hoodies, bring baseball bats and pepper spray to pro-Trump rallies, and riot and start fires on May Day while calling for an end to capitalism. But they’re just a small minority.
Word is out, though, and i24NEWS’s David Shuster is also helping spread the word that alt-left is just a smear, and it’s especially repugnant when centrist, Hillary-supporting Democrats use it to smear the far-left Bernie Bros.
Democrats who appropriated the term 'alt-left' to smear progressives should take a long, hard look at their own failings, says @DavidShuster pic.twitter.com/XzA8564xTF
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) August 19, 2017
@i24NEWS_EN Hi David! I was wondering where you wound up. Best of luck!
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) August 19, 2017
That video is a few days old, so maybe Shuster was trying to stir up some interest by shaming MSNBC contributor Joan Walsh and host Joy Ann Reid into a pubic Twitter fight. Walsh has been using alt-left in her tweets for quite a while, but this tweet perhaps offers her definition most clearly.
Never use the term BernieBros anymore. Now there are alt-left bros who think mocking Clinton supporters is doing political work
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) January 22, 2017
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