I’m not attached one way or the other to the particular choice of nomenclature (alt-left vs. regressive left vs. illiberal left), and I understand your point about Trump’s use of the term making it harder for true liberals to fight the regressive leftists among them, but the one place I disagree with you is when you suggest that the alt-left is a vocal minority fringe movement. You may be interested in this back and forth between me and Bill Anderson on this topic, where the point we agree on is that the alt-left has, unfortunately, taken over much of the mainstream of the Democratic Party and the media. I make the point there that in this past election, it’s Bernie Sanders who represented what I’m calling the real left, while the more “mainstream” Hillary Clinton (who married corporate cronyism with identity politics and constant call-outs to women, African-Americans, LGBTQ, etc. to get these people to come out to vote for her despite her regressive corporatist agenda that wouldn’t actually help them one bit) was the alt-left. The whole reason the white poor and working class, who traditionally were the bread-and-butter of the Democratic Party, have fled the Democratic Party in droves between 2008 and today (the Obama-Trump voters) is that they started feeling like they no longer were welcome in a party that was pushing an aggressive identitarian anti-white agenda instead of a progressive economic agenda.

At this point, the alt-right is also growing as a direct response to the alt-left, as I’ve argued in many articles in the past. The re-birth of a very race-conscious politics on the left, replacing the race-blind politics of the Civil Rights Era, has directly resulted in a re-birth of race-consciousness on the right as well. But, at this point, the alt-right is still on the outside looking in, while the alt-left is very much the CORE of today’s Democratic Party.