Tucker Carlson; Sean Hannity (Credit: Getty Images/Salon) For the alt-right, it’s the best of times and the worst of times. The actual community — an amorphous blob of far-right extremists, wild-eyed conspiracy theorists and outright neo-Nazis — has grown increasingly chaotic and fractured, torn apart by infighting and legal troubles. But the actual ideas that fuel the movement — that white Christians are oppressed, that a cabal of murderous “globalists” is conspiring against them, that racists and misogynists are brave truth-tellers standing up to “politically correct” tyranny — are more popular than ever.