Sarah Jeong's tweets and the alt-right

When David Duke traded in his cloak and robe for a coat and tie, he began to wrap his racist crusade in the lingo of civil rights for whites. One product of this grand wizardry was a new group called the National Association for the Advancement of White People, an obvious play on the name of the venerable civil rights organization.

Notwithstanding the vigorous debates already happening about affirmative action and forced busing, Duke’s innovation didn’t really catch on. Most white people found the need for such “advancement” by a charlatan and demagogue absurd. Duke had to pretend for a time to have renounced his most extreme views to enjoy his brief burst of political success.