Meaning of alt-center | Babel Free

Definitions

A set of centrist ideologies, especially those that delegitimize political dissent and sometimes rely on conspiracy theories, and whose presence is mainly confined to the Internet.

derogatory, slang, uncountable

Examples

“If Trump’s devoted hype squad of pustulent, oleaginous neo-Nazis can now be euphemized as the “alt-right,” the Eichenwalds and Jefferys of the world might have turned themselves into something similar: an alt-center, pushing its own failed political doctrine with all the same vehemence, idiocy, and spleen.”

“Now there's been a spate of stories talking about the "alt-left" and even the "alt-center."”

“Instead, pundits dismiss the idea of elites as such by trafficking in this silly, alt-center notion that the left and right are chasing equally fictitious boogeymen.”

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