alt-center

English

Etymology

Modelled on alt-right and alt-left.

Noun

alt-center (uncountable)

  1. (slang, politics, derogatory) A set of centrist ideologies that delegitimise political dissent, depend on conspiracy theories or otherwise are paradoxically authoritarian, whose presence is mainly confined to the Internet.
    • 2016 December 16, Sam Kriss, "The Rise of the Alt-Center", Slate.
      If Trump’s devoted hype squad of pustulent, oleaginous neo-Nazis can now be euphemized as the “alt-right,” the Eichenwalds and Jefferys of the world might have turned themselves into something similar: an alt-center, pushing its own failed political doctrine with all the same vehemence, idiocy, and spleen.
    • 2017 March 22, Baynard Woods, "The Kids Are Alt-Right", Salt Lake City Weekly.
      Now there's been a spate of stories talking about the "alt-left" and even the "alt-center."
    • 2017 May 18, Adam H. Johnson, "Stop using the term 'populist' for right-wing demagogues", Los Angeles Times.
      Instead, pundits dismiss the idea of elites as such by trafficking in this silly, alt-center notion that the left and right are chasing equally fictitious boogeymen.
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