Barker: Idaho has experience w/alt-right

In his Letters to the West column today, Rocky Barker/Idaho Statesman comments:

If you want to see what the so-called alt-right means for the future of Idaho, the best place to look is Twin Falls.

Breitbart News , the extreme conservative digital media giant, was run until recently by Steve Bannon, who is now President-elect Donald Trump’s new White House counselor. Breitbart News came to Twin Falls earlier this year and sought to turn what had been called the “Magic Valley miracle” into a nightmare.

Latching onto a story anti-Muslim media had erroneously spread across the Internet about Syrian refugees involved in the sexual assault of a child , Breitbart tried to link the story to Chobani, the yogurt maker that built a successful factory in Twin Falls.