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    The 'New Right' and the 'Alt-Right' Party on a Fractious Night

    The Deploraball was supposed to be a triumphant celebration on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration. But not everything went smoothly.
    by Rosie Gray Jan 20, 2017 5 minutes
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    If any event could make a statement about a new era in Washington, it was Thursday night’s Deploraball. A mostly young, white, open-bar-lubricated crowd in suits, tuxedos, and ball gowns packed the ballroom at the National Press Club, watching a series of speeches by party organizers Mike Cernovich; Jeff Giesea, a former employee of Peter Thiel’s Thiel Capital Management; and Jim Hoft, better known as Gateway Pundit, as well as conservative provocateur James O’Keefe and Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke. Cernovich and Giesea have been running an online pro-Trump organizing group called MAGA3X, which was behind the party.

    The event had all the trappings of a Trump rally, proving that the same effect

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