QUESTION ASKED AND PARTIALLY ANSWERED: Why The Left Can’t Understand The Alt-Right. To conservatives it is obvious that Ben Shapiro is not a member of the alt-right. Why is that so hard for many on the left to understand?

David Marcus’ take on why the Economist smeared (and then later sorta kinda apologized) for smearing Shapiro yesterday is well worth reading in its entirety. But another answer to his query is that in many ways, their racism and xenophobia is a mirror of (and reaction to) today’s institutional left.