GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER? TILA TEQUILA AND THE ALT-RIGHTThe people who run the National Policy Institute (NPI) — a key institution of the Alternative-Right that Hillary Clinton will pillory today in a speech attacking its connections to Donald Trump — have always been suit-and-tie racists.They eschew ethnic slurs and violence, dress in preppy “business casual” outfits, and declare that the aim of their “think tank” is “to elevate the consciousness of whites” and protect America’s “national identity.” “We have to look good,” NPI chief Richard Spencer once explained to Salon, because normal white people would not join a movement that appears to be ‘crazed or ugly or vicious or just stupid.”
These are the men and women, or so they say, who are thinking out the path forward for intelligent white people as they face dispossession and amalgamation.
And then there’s Tila Tequila.
In a little-noticed announcement, Spencer and the NPI recently boasted that it would hold a “Celebrate the Alt Right!” conference at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 19. It will be a celebration, the announcement said, of “the year of Donald Trump,” a “time when more joined our movement than ever before.” Its roster of speakers includes leading white nationalist thinkers.
But the night before, there will a steak dinner and cocktails hosted by the Radix journal, which is an NPI spinoff edited by Spencer. And on a panel, along with Spencer and the racist comic Ramzpaul, will be the fetching Ms. Tequila.