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Why 2016 specifically? was there a significant event that happened in that year?
Trump is what they're pointing out, but I think they're forgetting all the prior years of complete false information during bush and Obama. This isn't something just recently popping up, it's been going on for a while now, Trump just made it a lot louder.
There wasn't an alt-right because it was just "the right". The alt-right now was quite literally just the Conservative party back then in 2001