Communications Major

President-elect Donald Trump has faced mounting pressure to repudiate the alt-right. Now, the leading style guide for U.S. journalists says,

""Avoid using the term generically and without definition...because it is not well known and the term may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters’ actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience... . In the past we have called such beliefs racist, neo-Nazi or white supremacist."