Milo Yiannopoulos and the Alt-Right
The Briefing Room
BBC
4.8 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
David Aaronovitch speaks to Milo Yiannopoulos about Donald Trump's new political base - the 'alt-right'.
It's a mostly young, disparate movement which organises and congregates online, which has little in common with traditional Republicans.
However, it's thanks to this new political base that Donald Trump clinched the Republican Party nomination, despite angering a long list of key groups of American voters - but what does the Alt-Right stand for?
Its members are tribal and mostly sceptical about religion. They yearn for a strong leader and they loathe political correctness with a passion.
Controversially, some leading figures have links to the white supremacist movement - a development which frightens many mainstream Republicans who promised a more inclusive party after Mitt Romney's defeat four years ago.
And in an interesting twist, some of the leading voices in the movement come from Britain.
In this episode, David Aaronovitch finds out more about the alt-right - who are they, what do they believe, and what role they will play in the Trump campaign and American politics at large.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Milo Yiannopoulos, senior technology editor, Breitbart News
Cathy Young, columnist, Newsday
REPORTER: Mike Wendling
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading The Briefing Room, the programme that tells you what you need to know about what's happening now. |
| 0:10.4 | This week, we're looking at an American political network known as the Alt-Rite. |
| 0:16.0 | It's a movement with which Donald Trump's new campaign manager is heavily associated, |
| 0:21.3 | and Hillary Clinton has made it the latest focus of her anti-Trump rhetoric. |
| 0:26.7 | But what exactly is the alt-right? |
| 0:30.4 | Find out now with our presenter, David Orenovich, and our reporter, Mike Wendling. |
| 0:42.3 | Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo. The American people will come first once again. |
| 0:52.3 | These are the forgotten men and women of our country, and they are forgotten, but they're not going to be forgotten long. |
| 1:05.0 | These are people who work hard, but no longer have a voice. |
| 1:13.5 | I am your voice. |
| 1:22.1 | In this program, we'll be looking at how the surprising rise at Donald Trump |
| 1:26.2 | has been accompanied by a new and unexpected political movement |
| 1:30.1 | which has caused a flurry on social media |
| 1:32.7 | and is known to itself as the alt-right. |
| 1:36.6 | Now step inside the briefing room |
| 1:38.8 | and find out about the alt-right. |
| 1:42.0 | Joining me will be Milo Yiannopoulos, a figurehead of the movement, |
| 1:46.5 | and Cathy Young, one of its sharpest critics. But first, our reporter Mike Wendling has set out |
| 1:52.7 | to define what the alt-right is. |
| 1:58.2 | There was a moment this summer when the phrase alt-, first started to get real attention from the mainstream media. |
| 2:04.5 | And it all started with a tweet. |
| 2:06.9 | Next to her face was what appeared to be a star of David. |
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