Legacy of CSA and Nazis in Popular Consciousness

for instance: I don't think Neo-Nazi or white supremacist views should be *illegal*, but I wouldn't let people like that into my home or social circle and the alt-right as it's commonly used can cover conservative shock jocks (like the "alt-lite") all the way to your Richard Spencers (who claims to have coined the term) or Mencius Moldbugs.

I think with the somewhat being 5 percent that is more likely what most people in that group meant, after Charlottesville and particularly Berkley. Hard left riots and demonstrations have made it easier for the hard right. Adolph Hitler is hardly an American icon.
 
Part of the trouble is the alt-right to such a large degree (especially in it's "liter" paradigms but even your Spencers) is the right-wing of the cultural criticism / media studies complex, and a lot of people might find some of their arguments especially on those terms "more right than wrong", but overall finds them too tediously ideological or conversely, obsessed with being the inversion of that "fishbowl" / "bubble universe" (what Moldbug, in a particularly silly dramatic way, calls the "Cathedral"). You often see that in forums and places where there are alt-righters but they aren't dominant. Of course stuff like Charlottesville doesn't help.
 
WRT the second question. I don't know, something crazy like as the CSA starts going down the tubes in 1864 and they decide to start exterminating blacks (free, slave, whatever). The problem is that they will not have the industrial capacity to do so like the Nazis did and it will be too late to institutionalize the program.

You'd need slavery to have been abolished generations in the past, and the CSA to be trying to bring it back.

Like Heliogabalus said, Confederates get something of a pass because they were only defending something which they viewed as normal. The Nazis were not. Thus few people condemn George Washington for owning slaves, because that was the norm in his day, but if President Trump were found using slave labour in any of his business concerns, the public reaction would be totally different. Jefferson Davis is the "middle term" in this, as he was defending something still widely accepted as ok, but coming increasingly under attack.
 
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