Conservative think tanks also suspect that the incoming administration will roll back consumer protections, such as broader debt forgiveness, for people who attended for-profit schools.

"The truce is a palliative," Alexei Malashenko, a Middle East expert with Carnegie Moscow, a think tank, said in an interview.

Spencer is the president of the National Policy Institute, a think tank within the alt-right movement, which includes neo-Nazis and white supremacists.