The Alt-Right and Christianity

This capstone explores the rise and fall of the “alt-right” movement, an anti-Semitic, predominantly atheist collective of far-right political groups united by an erudite, transnational approach to white nationalism. The movement had a complicated relationship with Christianity, seeing Christianity as a damaging, pathologically altruistic phenomenon that threatened white racial kinship due to its Jewish roots. Rejecting mainstream conservatism and attributing the decline of Western civilization to liberal progressivism and Judaism, the alt-right isolated itself from religious far-rightists who might otherwise have been attracted to the movement’s politics. The alt-right's inability to appeal to an increasingly jingoistic, religious and anti-intellectual wing of the GOP led to the movement's inevitable decline, and it has since been superseded by younger, American-centric, zealously Christian far-right groups whose political and religious views are far more in line with a post-Trump Republican party.