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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future: Dafaure, Maxime (1 April 2020). "The 'Great Meme War:' the Alt-Right and its Multifarious Enemies". Angles (10). doi:10.4000/angles.369. ISSN 2274-2042. Dixit, Priya (2022). "Memeing the Far-Right: Pepe and the Deplorables". Race, Popular Culture, and Far-right Extremism in the United States. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 135–172. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-10820-4_5. ISBN 978-3-031-10820-4 – via The Wikipedia Library. Jackson, Sam (October 2019). A Schema of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States (PDF). The Hague: International Centre for Counter-Terrorism. doi:10.19165/2019.2.06. ISSN 2468-0486. JSTOR resrep19625.

As a movement and especially as a coalition, the alt-right is largely dead as of 2025. Websites like the Southern Poverty Law Center, quoting many of its prominent former members, have referred to it in the past tense since at least 2022. It's undeniable that many of its ideas have been incorporated into modern right-wing politics, but after the 2010s, the movement as a cohesive whole has largely splintered into various ideological offshoots, such as neo-reactionaryism, Christian Nationalism, Trumpism, etc.

Given that the movement no longer exists, I feel the tense of the article should be updated to reflect this. Ryonne (talk) 18:39, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I vote No. Because, what do you mean? Articles all over the internet as well as recent years' geopolitical landscapes, even with the recent victory of Trump, indicate clearly that it is still on the rise and very much an active movement. Your statements here are just blatantly false. Here is one such source from just two days ago: https://m.thewire.in/article/world/elon-musk-x-alt-right-propaganda Here is another: https://thelogic.co/news/pickering-city-council-mayor-alt-right/ Another: https://globalnews.ca/news/10940453/pickering-council-virtual-meetings-announcement/

Are you just going to ignore these facts? Or do you suppose it shouldn't called alt-right but just far-right...? Or are you downplaying them in order to further their interests? It is the purpose of Wikipedia to be as unbiased as possible, and this is not how you do that. Luka1184 (talk) 10:28, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK let's calm down. I also agree that this doesn't seem appropriate at this juncture as reliable sources as recent as 2024 exist that make reference to the alt-right in present tense. However I would suggest we WP:AGF here. Simonm223 (talk) 13:38, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree because referencing the movement doesn't mean it's still active. I think the article should be in past tense. Also I can not locate sources that are considered reliable by wikipedia that reference the movment as if it's still largely active. Zyxrq (talk) 11:15, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Look on Wikipedia Library. Newspapers are always chasing the latest bit of shiny discourse but academics tend to have longer attention spans and still write about the alt-right as an extant thing. Simonm223 (talk) 13:48, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just did a search for the string "the alt-right" on Wikipedia library limiting search results to 2024-2025 and it returned 672 papers. Some are historical. Others are very much in present-tense. Simonm223 (talk) 13:51, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References to "fans of Ayn Rand" and "Tea Partiers" as part of the alt-Right is by implication smearing a wide swath of the mainstream population. Some members of the alt-Right may have an attraction to a misinterpretation of a single novel in a much larger body of work by Rand, but most who advocate for her ideas include atheists, anti-war advocates, and mainstream libertarians and conservatives. In the Wikipedia biography of Rand, whether under the section "Political Influence" or anywhere else, there is no mention of an influence on alt-right ideology. Similarly, while some of the alt-right moved in and out of Tea Party circles at various times, it is an unfair characterization of the entire movement. I'm a registered editor, but I wanted to get feedback before making the edits. I can include additional citations if necessary. Don Friedmann (talk) 20:45, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ayn Rand mentioned a single time, which is directly attributed. At no point does the article even imply that every Rand fan is part of the alt-right, so I do not see this as a valid reason to remove this mention.

The mention of the Tea Party is similarly contextualized. It would damage the article to ignore the alt-right's history, and like it or not, the Tea Party is treated by sources as a part of this history. Grayfell (talk) 21:16, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Grayfell for your considered attention to my comment. Building on your view, may I then suggest an alternate approach:

At the very least, the characterization of her Rand's should be removed. "...who advocated for the abolition of the state in favor of private property and markets." This statement is false. Fact-checking this particular inaccuracy is important because misperceptions of Rand are fairly common. Rand was an atheist, a globalist, a rationalist, and a critic of all forms of tribalism. All of these put her in direct opposition to alt-right thinking. The Wikipedia biography on Rand is pretty clear on this.

I have only one objection to the "Tea Partiers" reference. The rest of the sentence: "the world-views of various right-wing movements, including white supremacists, Patriots, and Tea Partiers, increasingly began to coalesce, in part due to a shared racial animus against Obama." Referring to the Wikipedia article on the Tea Party movement, nowhere is there any mention of racial animus. Here again is guilt by association with avowedly racist white supremacists. I can use sources from that Wikipedia article to support this. Might I suggest replacing "Tea Partiers" with "QAnon conspiracists", which according to their Wikipedia article is also a right wing movement and is in fact closely tied to racist theories. Don Friedmann (talk) 01:22, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The relevant quote from the article says: Usenet groups that consisted of fringe libertarians, anarcho-capitalists, and fans of American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand, who advocated for the abolition of the state in favor of private property and markets. The article is not saying that Rand advocated for those things, the article is saying that according to one source, her fans advocate for those things, which to be honest seems completely reasonable. This is not an extraordinary claim.

More broadly, your interpretation of Ayn Rand's views is original research. Also, I think it's a mistake to assume that the alt-right has an internally coherent ideology. There is not much reason to assume their understanding of Rand is any more correct than their understanding of Nietzsche or ancient cultures or biology or economics or anything else. This is not guilt by associations, the article is documenting active associations. The alt-right is insecure and this movement has tried to attach itself to a lot of other, superficially more credible ideas and movements. Whether or not this is a problem for those other movements is irrelevant to Wikipedia. This is not a problem Wikipedia can or should fix, but we should reflect reliable sources which explain what's going on.

As for the Tea Party, that movement's roots are closely tied by sources to Birtherism which is highly racialized and predates QAnon. (the alt-right movement also predates QAnon). Again, this is not an extraordinary claim, and in context it seems like a reasonable summary. Grayfell (talk) 02:57, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]