# alt-center

## Anglais

### Étymologie

    (XXIᵉ siècle) Par analogie avec alt-right et alt-left.

### Nom commun

alt-center \ɒltˈsɛn.tɚ\

* (Politique) (Péjoratif) Partie du centre politique qui utilise des théories du complot, ou qui délégitimise la dissidence politique.
   * Instead, pundits dismiss the idea of elites as such by trafficking in this silly, alt-center notion that the left and right are chasing equally fictitious boogeymen. — (Adam H. Johnson, Stop using the term 'populist' for right-wing demagogues, publié le 18 mai 2017 dans Los Angeles Times)
   * If Trump’s devoted hype squad of pustulent, oleaginous neo-Nazis can now be euphemized as the “alt-right,” the Eichenwalds and Jefferys of the world might have turned themselves into something similar: an alt-center, pushing its own failed political doctrine with all the same vehemence, idiocy, and spleen. — (Sam Kriss, The Rise of the Alt-Center, article publié le 16 décembre 2016, dans Slate)

**Variantes orthographiques**

* alt center
* alt-centre
* alt centre

**Synonymes**

* alt-middle

**Antonymes**

* alt-right
* alt-left
