Understanding the alt-right

After it became clear that Donald Trump had won the US election, to the utter astonishment and incomprehension of the entire global establishment, a new political movement broke out. Both presidential candidates had related to this new counterculture during the campaign; the loser Hillary Clinton with disgust and in contemptuous speeches, the winner Donald Trump by posting a picture of himself in the form of one of the main representatives of the alternative right: Pepe the frog.

Early on, the influence and impact of this new meta-political movement on the outcome of the election could not be ignored, and countless discussions have been held by the establishment to try to define the alternative right.

But what is the alternative right? This movement that, based mainly on the internet, is waging a cultural war against the prevailing cultural elite and successfully overthrowing the current left-wing paradigm? What kind of people are in this loosely connected movement, and what are they like? What does the alternative right want? What distinguishes this movement and its actions from previous movements in the same opinion segment? Why is the alternative right so successful and what impact can it be expected to have in Sweden?

In this anthology of the alternative right, political scientists Jonas Nilsson and Anton Stigermark have collected previously unpublished texts from prominent people who in a broad sense can be considered part of the movement, or have a great explanatory value of the same, to explain a movement that is on the rise in Sweden as well.