NEW VILLAGE VOICE COLUMN UP...

....about Hillary Clinton's "alt-right" speech, and the less-alt racism that revealed itself in the wake of the Colin Kaepernick affair. Say what you will about the weird, LOL-nothing-matters racism of the alt-right guys, racial politics has been electoral bread and butter for just about everyone on the right, from the buzzcut Goldwater squares to the Breitbart frogs; the new breed have just found a way to make it superficially creepier. What's really interesting is, that creepiness makes the alt-right thing a great opportunity for mainstream conservatives to finally drop their dog-whistles -- to make the Nazi nerds a scapegoat in the old Greek sense, tie their sins to them, and drive them from the agora -- and lose the stigma of racism they're always complaining about. Alas, they seem incapable, and none of the possible reasons why are flattering to them.