Do you have any sources to back up your claim the the term "Alt-right" can be traced back to Ron Paul and the tea party? Wikipedia says the first usage of the

Do you have any sources to back up your claim the the term "Alt-right" can be traced back to Ron Paul and the tea party? Wikipedia says the first usage of the term "alternative right" was by Paul Gottfried in 2008 (http://forward.com/news/national/348372/meet-the-jewish-paleoconservative-who-coined-the-term-alternative-right/ http://forward.com/news/national/348372/meet-the-jewish-pale...) It also says that the first usage of the contracted form "alt-right" was by Richard Spencer. https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/alt-right-a-primer-about-the-new-white-supremacy https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/alt-ri... http://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/is-the-alt-right-for-real http://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/is-the-... and https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/alt-right-salutes-donald-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/alt-right-salutes-dona... quote Spencer as claiming to be the person who coined the term. And there's like a dozen other citations on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right Where are your sources?