Weirder and weirder

I don't enjoy thinking about the alt-right, but since the March 15th attacks in Christchurch I've been keeping an eye on some of the movement's local members. I talked about the history of white supremacism on Radio New Zealand's Black Sheep podcast, and I've been tweeting updates on the increasingly weird fantasies of alt-righters like John Ansell, the former National and Act Party ad man whose long-standing fear of 'Maori supremacism' is now complemented by some serious paranoia about Muslims.

Ansell and hundreds of other Kiwis have convinced themselves that the March the 15th atrocities were a 'false flag' operation, and a pretext for the Ardern government to crush civil liberties.

Today Pete George, who has been blogging about the far right for years, has incorporated a couple of my tweets into a post about the increasingly crazed rhetoric of the alt-right.