One of the country’s most prominent white nationalists, Richard Spencer, was kicked out of the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday after conference organizers gave him credentials to attend and then wavered on whether to let him stay. Last week, CPAC organizers who had invited the British provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos to give a speech quickly disinvited him after footage emerged of Yiannopoulos appearing to promote pedophilia. The shift, while energizing many working-class voters, has also attracted the vocal support of white nationalists like Spencer, who coined the term “alternative right” to describe his far-right views on separating the races. For the most part, the term is now embraced mostly by white nationalists. After leaving the speech, Spencer was quickly surrounded by a crowd of journalists who quizzed him on his views as curious passersby craned their necks to see who was causing such a scene.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 23, 2017 17:11 UTC