MATTHEW SHEFFIELD: Rise of the alt-right: How mainstream conservatives’ obsession with purity fueled a new right-wing radicalism.

It’s great to see Matt, who helped create NewsBusters, writing in Salon; but it’s akin to Ross Douthat being the token conservative at the New York Times. One conservative pundit is nowhere near enough to offset the institutional leftism. Speaking of which, Salon itself should take a good look in the mirror for playing a role in creating the alt-right: the Website went hard racialist left around the time Obama took office, (not to mention simply hard left) and rarely took their thumb off the scale, to the point where then-Salon editor at large Joan Walsh (whose pigment looks about as pale as mine) wrote a book in 2012 with plenty of approving blurbs from her fellow elite leftists titled What’s the Matter with White People?

Immediately after the election, John Podhoretz tweeted, “Liberals spent 40 years disaggregating U.S., until finally the largest cohort in the country chose to vote as though it were an ethnic group.” Back in 2008, Jonah Goldberg received plenty of brickbats from the left for writing that “The White Man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism,” but Salon seemed to ensconce that notion on page one of their style-guide for writers and accelerated the left’s ongoing war against white males exponentially. Apparently they weren’t expecting much in the way of repercussions.