SPENCER THE FAVOURITE TO WIN "TEXAN OF THE YEAR" AWARD

Richard Spencer, the originator of the term "Alt-Right" and the man most frequently cited as the "leader of the Alternative Right" (although many would disagree) has been honoured by his native state of Texas by being included as a finalist for "Texan of the Year." 

This is a title bestowed every year by the Dallas Morning News, a newspaper that chooses the Texan considered to have the biggest impact over the past year. Although born in Boston in 1978, Spencer grew up in Dallas, Texas, and is therefore considered a Texan.

Spencer has a good chance of winning, as reported by Newsweek, which really, really doesn't like the idea:

Over the past year, the Dallas native has succeeded in bringing white nationalism into the public eye and almost making it look mainstream. It’s this high visibility and savvy public relations campaign that allowed him to make the list of Texan of the Year finalists.

“The alt-right emerged from the world of online trolling. They are continuing this trolling tactic to sway different polls to create the appearance that their radical positions are, in fact, gaining popularity with mainstream whites,” Dr. Randy Blazak, a sociology professor who studies white nationalism, told Newsweek.

Spencer himself would reject labels like Nazi, racist, or white supremacist, and prefers to call himself an “identitarian.” But the goals of white “identitarians” and white supremacists are hard to differentiate.

“This country does belong to white people, culturally, politically, socially, everything. We defined what America is,” he told a crowd in Texas in December 2016.

“Richard Spencer’s clean-cut appearance conceals a radical white separatist whose goal is the establishment of a white ethno-state in North America. His writings and speeches portray this as a reasonable defense of Caucasians and Eurocentric culture,” notes the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“In Spencer’s myopic worldview, white people have been ‘dispossessed’ by a combination of rising minority birth rates, immigration and government policies he abhors.”

The Newsweek article noticeably fails to mention who the other finalists are, showing once again what an inferior "news" publication it is, although this could also be due to the fact that the other finalists are complete nobodies. 

All except for, Johnnie Langendorff and Stephen Willeford, the two brave men who successfully chased Texas Church Shooter and unassimilated Irishman, Devin Kelley to his death and who also rightfully make the list.

Killer Kelley and his Texas nemesis Langerdorff.

Although this heroic action was admirable, it is hard to see how it can be considered as having a "bigger impact" than the actions of Spencer, who has played a leading role in the main new political movement in the West in the last few years, namely the Alt-Right. For this reason, Spencer must be considered the favourite to win.