Not everyone in the alt right have been subverted by shills or con agents.
Yeah, the internet allowed people to really think for themselves. However, it also allowed a bunch of liberals to be horrendously radicalized as well. Only because places like reddit, google, youtube, are censoring independent thought. If you have freedom of thought you have freedom of mind.
The best Trump memes came from the chans. There is huge amounts of Chaos Magic flowing through these sites and Trump was the spark that catalyzed it all.
Look at this thread from January 2016. https://archive.is/rlCrT?fbclid=IwAR2y5JrwrGtCvQGeNLuOBsJgy8lBzPN7zptb5T3uxxiD48ML7xgeGzdwvyg