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I n the last few weeks, the phrase “Alt Right” has been thrown around constantly. But there is nothing “alternative” about this group – they represent the mainstream views of the Republican Party. The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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If you’ve noticed in the last couple weeks, the phrase alt-right seems to be popping up everywhere in analyses about Donald Trump and his supporters. Essentially what this alt-right group is is bloggers, pundits, other kinds of really radicalized hate-filled, potentially white nationalist Republicans who’ve come out of the closet in support of Donald Trump. They no longer feel like they have to hide their beliefs. They can be open about it because somebody like Donald Trump is leading the way with all of his hate.

They phrase alt-right is something I’m really not that big a fan of because there is no alt-right. Hillary Clinton mentioned it in her speech the other day, and it’s great that she tackled this issue, but I still do not like the phrase alt-right because there’s nothing alternative about these people. These are mainstream Republicans, and this has been the mainstream Republican view, using hatred to divide the country since Ronald Reagan in the 1980s when he used his welfare queen image to get people, Republicans, white southern Republicans specifically, to hate black people.

This has been the tactic for 40 years. This is nothing new, there’s nothing alternative about it, this is the natural progression of the Republican Party down this road of hate that Ronald Reagan and Lee Atwater put them on about 40 years ago. When we talk about this issue, let’s not give them a separate name, let’s not claim that there’s something different. Let’s call them what they are, Republicans, because that’s what the Republican Party stands for, hate and division. Donald Trump is not new. He is not the one that brought this into the party. He is just the symptom of what this has done to the Republican base.

Fox News has been spreading hate and division for years. Ann Coulter, same thing. Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh. What do you think these people are? They’re peddlers of hate and they are mainstream Republican cheerleaders, basically. When you see a headline that talks about the alt-right, it’s a great story, it’s an important issue, but just know, they’re really talking about mainstream Republican voters.

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Farron Cousins is the executive editor of The Trial Lawyer magazine, and his articles have appeared on The Huffington Post, Alternet, and The Progressive Magazine. He has worked for the Ring of Fire radio program with hosts Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Mike Papantonio, and Sam Seder since August 2004, and is currently the co-host and producer of the program. He also currently serves as the co-host of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV, a daily program airing nightly at 8:30pm eastern. Farron received his bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of West Florida in 2005 and became a member of American MENSA in 2009. Follow him on Twitter @farronbalanced.

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Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse says that his Republican colleagues in the Senate actually have a tremendous amount of respect for Hillary Clinton, and some of them are even closet Clinton supporters. But could there be something more sinister behind this support? The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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[dropcap]D[/dropcap]emocratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in an interview with Buzzfeed says that a lot of his colleagues, his Republican colleagues, in the US Senate are actually closeted supporters of Hillary Clinton. Whitehouse says that a lot of these people including some of her former campaign rivals on the Republican side have nothing but respect for former Secretary of State Clinton. They watch her on TV and they say, “Wow, she is very powerful, she is very good,” and according to Whitehouse some of them even support her even though they don’t come out and say it openly.

Now, we have seen several Republican Senators come out and say that they will not support Donald Trump. Senator Whitehouse’s assertion here is very believable, obviously, because it is what happens. Senator Whitehouse is very well respected, he’s been a great friend of Ring of Fire, and he is one of the loudest voices in Washington, DC fighting against climate change. He’s a very trustworthy man and I do believe him on this issue. However, I think he might be missing the point a little bit on here.

If there are Republicans in the Senate that support Hillary Clinton, I don’t think it’s because they hate Donald Trump or because they respect Senator Clinton so much. I think it has everything to do with the fact that they want Hillary to win so they can go back to the Republican base and say, “I told you so. I told you this is what would happen if you let this anti-establishment guy come in. Now we’ve got four years, possibly eight years, of Hillary Clinton.”

This is always, with Republicans, it is always a campaign move. They’re already trying to work on the 2020 campaign and it’s going to be built all around the horrible things that Hillary Clinton has done. They are going to put up an establishment candidate in 2020, they’re going to say, “Look, we warned you how dangerous Trump was, we told you this was going to happen. Come back to us, put your trust in us, put your faith in us, we’ll put the Republican Party on the right path,” even though it will be the exact same path that Donald Trump is on.

That’s what this is about, this has nothing to do with Republicans coming on board to the Clinton campaign, or secretly wanting to go vote for her. They want her to win so that they have a common enemy to rally against in the 2020 elections.

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