RICHARD HANANINANIA "OUTED" BY HUFF PO AS FORMER O.G. ALT-RIGHTER "RICHARD HOSTE"

Artist's impression of "Richard Hoste"

Richard Hanania is a right-wing pundit connecting more "radical" right-wing narratives and critiques with the right-wing mainstream in an intellectually valid and sustainable way. In other words, he is not some Nazi Larper or cuckservative waste-of-space. In fact, he does what the original Alt-Right did before it was co-opted and hijacked by Neo-Nazis and Russian shills and led to its destruction by idiots like Richard Spencer.

We therefore should not be too surprised that Hanania has an old Alt-Right past, including being one of the early writers on the old AlternativeRight.com site founded by Richard Spencer before his "Hitlerian" phase. His past has now been outed by the folks at Huff Po. Notice the typical sweaty Huff Po style:

Richard Hanania, a visiting scholar at the University of Texas, used the pen name “Richard Hoste” in the early 2010s to write articles where he identified himself as a “race realist.” He expressed support for eugenics and the forced sterilization of “low IQ” people, who he argued were most often Black. He opposed “miscegenation” and “race-mixing.” And once, while arguing that Black people cannot govern themselves, he cited the neo-Nazi author of “The Turner Diaries,” the infamous novel that celebrates a future race war.

Hysterical decontextualising and conflating of ideas, combined with errant associations - all designed to create an impression of "evil."

For the record, race does indeed have a massive impact on outcomes, people from all ends of the political spectrum have on occasion supported eugenics policies, and people in general, whether rightly or wrongly, have throughout history looked askance at miscegenation. Also, mentioning the Neo-Nazi author of "The Turner Diaries" does not mean one agrees with him. If that were the case, the author of the Huff Po piece would agree with everything Richard Hanania has ever thought, as well as William Pierce. 

It is not really clear how Hanania was outed. The article presents some narrative about clever journalism and clues on the internet, but it's just as likely that Hanania was thrown under the bus by someone who knew him personally, like his old Editor-in-Chief at AlternativeRight(dot)com.

More interestingly, the article mentions how well Hanania has been doing since starting a Substack account in 2020, and some of the people feeding him money. In 2020, he got a cushy "post" on a well-funded "think tank" the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI), getting $137,500 in one year and $160,000 the next year, with the money coming from the Conru Foundation, run by millionaire Andrew Conru, who created AdultFriendFinder.com, the matchmaking and hookup site, Koch-brothers-funded, Mercatus Center, and "dark money" sources.

There are also links to Elon Musk and other tech billionaires: 

Marc Andreessen — the powerful Silicon Valley venture capitalist and billionaire, and a buddy of Elon Musk — has appeared on CSPI’s podcast, hosted by Hanania, three times. He talked to Hanania for two hours in 2021, and last year sat down with Hanania twice to discuss their “Nietzschean” interpretations of the TV shows “Breaking Bad” and “The Shield.” (In the episode description for the interview about “The Shield,” a police show, Hanania argued that it’s “white cops” maintaining order in America, while Black cops are corrupt and tied to “gangbangers.”)

Other names mentioned are David Sacks, Peter Thiel, and Vivek Ramaswamy, the GOP presidential candidate with a net worth over $600 million from biotech.

Huff Po are very worried:

What’s clear, however, is that a coterie of powerful tech billionaires and millionaires — people with the kind of resources to fund something like CSPI — are invested in Hanania, maybe seeing him as a potential new éminence grise, an intellectual who can articulate and promote their specific blend of techno-utopian, anti-democratic politics.

Hanania, by the way, appears to be a Semitic name of Jewish or more probably Arabic origin.