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‘New Right’ Activists Pivot Backwards,

Share Laughs With ‘Unite The Right’
Demonstrator
<https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post_author/jared-holt/>By Jared Holt
<https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post_author/jared-holt/> | October 19, 2017 10:03
am

New Right activists Lucian Wintrich, who reports from the White House for Gateway Pundit, and Ali Akbar host an
alt-right troll on the "Wintrich Report" podcast. (Screenshot/Periscope.com)

Lucian Wintrich, a White House reporter for The

Gateway Pundit, and Ali Akbar, who are both political
activists among the self-described “New Right” Related
movement, split from prior efforts
‘New Right’
<https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/new-right-activists-are-seeking-
Activists Are
to-institutionalize-their-digital-movement/> to sanitize and
distance their movement from its affiliations with the Seeking To
racist alt-right movement and featured alt-right troll
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Institutionalize
Matt Colligan on their podcast. Their Digital
Movement
On last night’s episode of their livestream
<https://www.rightwingwat
<https://www.pscp.tv/w/1zqjvmmlmylgb> podcast, “Wintrich
ch.org/post/new-right-
Report,” which drew many viewers after it was shared
activists-are-seeking-to-
by New Right activists such as Mike Cernovich,
featured a conversation with Matt Colligan—known institutionalize-their-digital-

online as “Millennial Matt”—in which they discussed movement/>

differences between the two movements, framing

the conversation as a civil exchange of ideas. But in this supposed effort to
draw a hard line between the two movements, Akbar, Wintrich and Colligan
identified a number of shared beliefs, including that white men have been
caricatured as evil by “white fat bitches,” according to Akbar, in the media.

“I have a deep fondness for anyone I think is funny,” Wintrich said, expressing
his affinity for Colligan and Tim Gionet, a Twitter personality known as “Baked
Alaska” who has repeatedly shared <https://www.avclub.com/a-brief-history-of-the-internets-
saddest-neo-nazi-loser-1818808657> Nazi memes online and also appeared at the racist
Unite the Right rally.

In a since-deleted <https://www.pscp.tv/w/1mrgmzqvradjy> Periscope promoting

Colligan’s appearance, Akbar described Colligan as “a little bit racist” but “so
funny.” Akbar said he didn’t care if the conversation meant some people
among the New Right “public” left the conversation sympathizing with the alt-
right.

Colligan has been identified

<http://www.masslive.com/news/boston/index.ssf/2017/09/massachusetts_internet_troll_t.html> as
one of the members of the tiki-torch protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, that
preceded the murder <https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/13/us/charlottesville-heather-heyer-
profile/index.html> of liberal counter-protester Heather Heyer. During the livestream,
Colligan described white nationalist Richard Spencer as a “good guy.” While
Colligan claimed that he does not personally identify as alt-right, he could not
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identify a point where he disagreed with the institutional leaders of the alt-right
movement.

Nazi flags, “Hitler did nothing wrong” memes, and attacks on mainstream
media were displayed by Colligan during the livestream, but Akbar insisted that
the conversation was “not a debate” and that “there’s no winner, there’s no
loser” in the duo’s friendly discussion with Colligan.

By featuring Colligan, Wintrich and Akbar demonstrated that some factions of

the New Right are still willing to associate themselves with figures who
espouse alt-right ideas. Wintrich and Akbar proved that they don’t mind sharing
their growing platform with someone who thinks racism and anti-Semitism is a
joke.

As one caller put it, “If you two associate with this man and anybody on the alt-
right, you two have lost me.”

Tags: Ali Akbar, Lucian Wintrich, Matt Colligan, Alt-Right, New Right, Unite the Right, white
nationalism, white supremacist, Gateway Pundit

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