Publicly opposing Donald Trump left one conservative commentator and his family facing an endless barrage of online abuse from the so-called "alt-right," the anti-establishment conservative movement known for its close ties to white nationalism and for its internet-savvy adherents' coordinated attacks on political and media figures.
David French, a columnist for National Review, and his wife Nancy French, a columnist for the Washington Post, have come under what French called “an unending torrent of abuse that I wouldn’t wish on anyone” in a column published Friday. He describes how, more than a year ago, he began seeing images of his daughter’s face photoshopped into gas chambers or slave ships, and how the comment section of his wife’s blog on Patheos filled with images of extreme violence....
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