On an intellectual level, the Alt Right challenges the conservative belief that America is a nation founded on an idea or a vision of natural and God-given rights. They prefer to see it as defined by its ethnic and racial identities. This goes to the core of their break with the conservative tradition. “We question America’s founding myth,” Spencer, the white nationalist leader, explained. “If you look at the Declaration of Independence, it’s not just the notion of ‘all men are created equal’ that I would object to. It’s also this notion that states come into being as entities for people to
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