>>I base my definition of "alt-right" on what the guy who coined the term means.

I know it's convenient to latch onto Spencer's claims- but what about Paul Gottfried who coined the term in 2008. Gottfreid is Raffensperger Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Elizabethtown College, received a Guggenheim and has a Yale PhD. He doesn't agree with your definition of his term any more than Bannon does.

>>If you read the links in my article, you'll see that in fact, Sessions fought against fair funding for schools (which is related to desegregating them).

Shortly before he died, Arlen Specter who cast the deciding vote against Sessions 30 years ago and later got to know Sessions, called his vote a mistake that remained one of his biggest regrets. Sorry but in 2016 people need to take off the blinkers and stop acting as if 30-year-old accusations are not just facts, but the only facts.

>>The issue here, of course, is his attitude toward free speech and a free press, not the incident itself.

We've been over this. I agree with Trump and Scalia that the media should not be able to broadcast sensational accusations against a public figure just because somebody said it. The media has a responsibility to act as the Fourth Column, not partisan attack vehicles. I've posted Scalia's comments about this twice now. Of course the permanent Trump attackers try to cast this as an assault on free speech, but in real life the New York Times used this provision as a means to defame Trump and jeer at him when he protested. If there's any intention for the public to rely on the MSM as honest observers then willingly or unwillingly, there must be propriety and balance in what they choose to publish. Otherwise people stop trusting them and gravitate towards echo chamber partisan media that at least admits its bias. But I don't think Trump needs to do more than keep reminding the public of media dishonesty as the MSM seems determined to take itself down under its own steam.