First, a note on the headline of the day – President Trump insults the Australian Prime Minister and hangs up on him.  Prime Minister Turnbull should be very proud.

So yesterday I joined Change.org.  This is a site where you can actually start a petition.  I don’t think I will ever do that, because I know that I would be so obsessive about the grammar that it would never get circulated.  I did, however, affix my name to a petition asking the President, Vice President and Representative Paul Ryan to reverse Steve Bannon’s appointment.  That will show ‘em.  I’m sure soon I will end up on the Enemies List --- it’s likely that I’m on somebody’s enemy list already anyway.

So, I got to thinking about what the Alt Right really means, and me being me, I started doing some research:

The Alt Right mainly uses websites, chat boards, social media, etc. to spread their predominantly anti-Semitic and white supremacist message.  Bannon, as chairman of Breitbart, has called Breitbart the platform for the Alt Right.

OK, so how bad could the Alt Right postings be?  Talk about being naïve!  I pulled up just a few websites (before becoming physically ill)  – Holocaust Handbooks, Real Jew News, Jew Watch, Daily Storm, Storm Front, and National Vanguard.  Don’t go there, believe me, don’t go there.  I’ll give you a few snippets.  Holocaust Handbooks sells lots of really, really scary videos – with titles such as The Jewish Gas Chamber Hoax, and A Holocaust Denial Movie.  Real Jew News has such delights as How the Jews Destroyed America and Jewry’s Agents of Depravity.  And then there is National Vanguard’s horror – If Hitler Had Won World War II, We’d Have A Better, More Just World Today.

Now, I’m not suggesting President Trump follows these view, but he does immerse himself in this atmosphere – promotion of Breitbart, praise of Milo Yiannopoulos, using Peter Thiel as an advisor.  He should be disavowing the twisted philosophies of the Alt Right continually – not just a throw-away statement during the campaign.

Tomorrow, maybe a little history lesson.