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Last week, Spencer sat down for an interview with two leading extremists on the 鈥淎lt-Right鈥�: Mike Enoch who runs TheRightStuff.biz blog and Andrew Anglin, whose website The Daily Stormer 鈥撯�� a site that has surpassed the popularity long held by Don Black鈥檚 Stormfront 鈥撯�� traffics in endlessly vile anti-Semitic memes and heralds President-elect Donald Trump as 鈥淥ur Glorious Leader.鈥� The interview was posted on Enoch鈥檚 blog under the title 鈥淏etween Two Lampshades,鈥� a crude reference to the post-World War II myth that the skin of victims of the Buchenwald concentration camp had been used to make lampshades.

Calling the interview the first meeting of the 鈥淭he Triumvirate,鈥� the conversation turns on discussing their hopes for a new America under Trump and the possibilities of an ethnostate that would halt illegal immigration and give way to an all-out assault on immigration from any non-European nation. (It鈥檚 worth noting that all three are in favor of eugenics and IQ tests to determine the suitability of people to be citizens.)

In clear terms, the interview was a public relations effort for the newly united front between Spencer, a trust fund beneficiary,聽Anglin, an internet troll known for bragging in a video leaked online about his 鈥渏ailbait,鈥� Filipino聽girlfriend,聽and an obscure New York blogger who frequently appears on Spencer鈥檚 podcast. But Spencer seems to be willing to forge an alliance with the very factions of the Alt-Right he has tried to distance himself from using聽his family鈥檚 wealth and his own educational pedigree.

In order to cast their movement as the sole alternative to the current political paradigm,聽and not a collection of reactionaries with selective historical literacy, the trio attempts to project itself as a collective of racially awakened activists tugging at the levers of power. They claim to endorse universal healthcare, nuclear energy聽and public transit as worthwhile public goods in a socialist society, while criticizing non-whites as 鈥渞ent-seekers,鈥� incapable of developing and maintaining civilization.

They justify this聽with some interesting mental gymnastics. Spencer claims blacks view civilization and culture as a 鈥渮ero sum game.鈥� This is in fact a projection of the core of the 鈥淎lt-Right鈥� worldview, that any gains in the fields of social justice or race relations for non-whites represent a net loss for whites. While he stops short of Anglin鈥檚 calls for genocide, Spencer makes it clear that in his imagined ethnostate, non-Europeans and 鈥渙thers鈥� would be removed with the express intent of returning America to its 鈥淎nglo-Protestant core.鈥�

Anglin鈥檚 hatred of the Jews was once cast by Spencer-proxy Collin Liddell as 鈥渢ransmogrified fear,"聽an inversion of 鈥淛ewish Supremacy鈥� that warped Anglin into a head-shaving, swastika-adorned internet troll. But in the 鈥淭riumvirate鈥� interview, Spencer describes Anglin鈥檚 preoccupation with Jews as an acceptable reaction to a 鈥渢ragic, parasitic relationship.鈥� He and Enoch spend considerable time discussing their shared belief that Jews exist as a novel example of tribal evolution in global history.

Judging by the speaking time allotted to each, a clear hierarchy is at play. While dominating the interview, Spencer feigns humility and repeatedly references how prior conversations he had with Enoch helped him develop talking points for interviews. Enoch, who regularly syndicates Anglin鈥檚 content, speaks second-most, frequently attempting to bridge the gap between Spencer鈥檚 鈥渢houghts鈥� on the movement and Anglin鈥檚 meme-speak. But Anglin's presence is curious.聽

It wasn鈥檛 long ago that Anglin declared 鈥渢otal war鈥� on Spencer after Alternative Right, Spencer鈥檚 former blog, posted an article titled, 鈥淎ndrew Anglin鈥檚 Inverted Ghetto.鈥�

In the article, Liddell,聽described by Anglin as 鈥淐hief Servant of Richard Spencer,"聽lambasted 鈥淎nglin鈥檚 track record 鈥� using the crudest racist imagery and boldly associating his message with the most demonized members of the most demonized regime in the modern age (without even a hint of irony).鈥� Liddell also asserted that Anglin is 鈥渁 paid shill and agent provocateur, whose purpose is simply to infest and discredit White nationalism.鈥�

That last statement obviously struck a nerve.

In the aftermath, Anglin dedicated considerable energy to denigrating Spencer鈥檚 craven attempts to position himself at the forefront the Alt-Right. How interesting, then, that since the interview,聽Anglin has gone to war for his newfound ally and summoned his followers to lead an聽attack against critics of Spencer in Whitefish, Mont., where Spencer lives part-time.

In response to community members being increasingly critical of Spencer鈥檚 mother for funding her son鈥檚 campaign of intolerance, Anglin posted a piece on Monday that detailed the names, occupations, contact information and pictures of those he sees as Spencer鈥檚 enemies.

How then did Spencer and Anglin come to bury the hatchet? Is it perhaps a moment of three racists willing to settle their beefs for the good of the movement? Or is it, as seems more likely, would-be 鈥渋ntellectuals鈥� whose racist perspectives are shades of gray on the spectrum of racist thought finally agreeing to blend into one?

Despite maneuvering to anoint themselves as some Alt-Right collective, a brain trust, the fawning deference even racists give to Spencer makes apparent their divisions 鈥撯�� divisions in style, intelligence, substance聽and class. It is a marriage of convenience, one that Spencer seems willing to entertain even at the cost of his own steadily degrading image, one that Enoch is willing to engage in because it helps his relevance, and one that聽Anglin is energized to be a part of because it makes him seem smarter than he is.