FRANKEL: The ‘Alt-Right’ Is A Leftist Movement. We Should Refer To It As Such.

On Thursday, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro gave a speech at Stanford University, covering both the radical Left and the “alt-Right.” Shapiro explained that both of these movements feed off of each other, because each movement relies on a hierarchy for its existence. But while the radical Left’s intersectional philosophy puts white, Christian males at the bottom as the “least oppressed group,” the “alt-Right” flips that hierarchy on its head and white people become the desired, most important group of all.

Needless to say, what both of these groups stand for is anathema to Americanism — much less mainstream conservatism. The conservative believes that we are all, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, “[C]reated equal” and that all people “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” To be on the Right means to see no significance whatsoever in race, class, or sexual orientation. We conservatives believe in meritocracy and equality of opportunity for everyone.