To the Right: Hillary Clinton delivered a hard-nosed address yesterday afternoon, accusing Donald Trump of embracing the extremist right-wing philosophy “alternative right,” known as “Alt-Right,” a movement unfamiliar to most Americans.

Speaking in Reno, Clinton said, “He says he wants to make America great again, but more and more it seems as though his real message is, seems to be, make America hate again.”

The Alt-Right is a nationalist movement, mostly existing on the internet, which preaches that mass immigration and diversity threaten white identity. Trump has not endorsed the philosophy by name, but his critics say he’s done it in both words and actions that appeal to the Alt-Right. Trump hired as his campaign executive Stephen Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News, which has become a mouthpiece for the movement.

A Breitbart article titled “What the Founders Really Thought About Race” says, “Today’s egalitarians are therefore radical dissenters from traditional American thinking. A conception of America as a nation of people with common values, culture, and heritage is far more faithful to vision of the founders.” In other words, white.

Clinton said, “He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party.” She said “This is a moment of reckoning for every Republican dismayed that the party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump.”  She went on, “It’s a moment of reckoning for all of us who love our country and believe that America is better than this.”

The Alt-Right crowd appears pleased with the condemnation. Richard Spencer, one of the movement’s founders, said, “When your movement is going to be mentioned by name by the presidential candidate leading in the polls, you can safely say we’ve made it.”

To the Left: Donald Trump appears to be showing that he’s under new management. While he still makes wild declarations (“Hillary is a bigot”), he’s sticking more to a script. He softened his anti-immigration stance Wednesday night on Fox News, backing away from his promise to eject all 11 million illegal immigrants from the country. “No citizenship,” Mr. Trump said. “They’ll pay back taxes. They have to pay taxes.” He also said, “There’s no amnesty, but we will work with them.”
Trump still vowed that he will “Get the bad ones out.”

At Sea: A US Navy ship fired three warning shots from a 50-caliber gun at an Iranian fast-attack boat that had approached within 200 yards. Two other attack craft had veered off.
It’s the second incident in which Iranian attack boats have approached an American warship. Four boats buzzed a destroyer in the Straits of Hormuz earlier this week, two of them coming within 300 yards. Iran has said it will “confront” any ships entering its territorial waters.

Nation: Brazilian authorities have asked US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte to appear in court to answer questions about his claim that he had been robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro. — The LA Times reports that Chinese real estate developers are radically changing the skyline of downtown Los Angeles, as they have in Beijing and Shanghai. Half a dozen mixed-use and residential skyscrapers are underway. Many of the apartments are expected to be bought by Chinese nationals looking to put their money is safe real estate in the US.

Open Carry: Hundreds of students at the University of Texas in Austin protested the new state law allowing guns to be openly carried on public college campuses. They displayed their disgust with the carrying of guns by openly carry sex toys — dildos — in their hands and attached to belts and backpacks. Openly carrying a sex toy is also legal in Texas, but, unlike a gun, not if you openly use it.

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