Donald Trump to become first president to speak at anti-LGBT hate group's annual summit

I think the Time article is trying to build a parallelism on "altness" as a computer phenomenon to make the case for how online communication has allowed for the emergence of a greater presence of more extreme views on the left and right. That much is probably true--online communication allows for people to organize around ideas much more organically and without geographic constraints, which were previously a check on more extreme views. BUT where that theory falls short is the political one--there's no evidence that this extreme online Left actually yet wields any real political power. Even the analogues on the right (ideology incubators like /pol/, t_d, etc.) aren't really in any way clearly political movers, absent their far more established and organized colleagues like Breitbart, RedState, etc--and those are interfacing with rural/older/heartland political attitudes in ways that places like 4chan definitely are NOT.

So case for both existing is true, but not yet politically relevant. The case for both being important isn't true.

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