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By Terrence McCoy April 20 at 3:51 PM
Eight months after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville ended in the death of a counter-protester, the loose collection of disaffected young white men known as the alt-right is in disarray. The problems have been mounting: lawsuits and arrests, fundraising difficulties, tepid recruitment, widespread infighting, fierce counterprotests and banishment on social media platforms. Taken together, theyve exhausted even some of the staunchest members.
One of the movements biggest groups, the Traditionalist Worker Party, dissolved in March. Andrew Anglin, founder of the Daily Stormer, the largest alt-right website, has gone into hiding, chased by a harassment lawsuit. And Richard Spencer, the alt-rights most public figure, cancelled a college speaking tour and was abandoned by his attorney last month.
Things have become a lot harder, and we paid a price for what happened in Charlottesville. .?.?. The question is whether there is going to be a third act, said Spencer, who coined the name of the movement, which rose to prominence during the 2016 presidential campaign, advocates a whites-only ethno-state, and has posted racist, anti-Semitic and misogynistic memes across the Internet.
Overall, the number of neo-Nazi groups increased in the United States in 2017, from 99 to 121, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center report released this year. That number is likely to decrease this year, said Heidi Beirich, who co-wrote the report. SPLC did not group alt-right organizations together, but some of the neo-Nazi groups were an outgrowth of the movement.
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Ukrainian Yankee
(89 posts)Will that be coming on Netflix or HBO?
calimary
(81,314 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)They may be down. But I won't count them out.
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)one of the Neo-Nazi groups?
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)"Fucking Nazis"
There. Fixed it.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)It could happen.
malaise
(269,054 posts)<snip>
One of Americas highest-profile neo-Nazi parties is no more after a bizarre love triangle saw its leader locked up for assault, the partys former spokesperson, who described the incident as a white trash circus told The Daily Beast.
The Traditionalist Worker Party gained national attention after its involvement at the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August. Its leader, Matthew Heimbach was arrested Tuesday for allegedly assaulting his wife and his spokesman after Heimbach was caught cheating on his wife with the spokesmans wife.
The implosion began at a TWP compound in Paoli, Indiana, where Parrotts wife, Jessica, was allegedly having an affair with Heimbachwho is married to Parrotts stepdaughter from a previous marriage.
Heimbach and Jessica told Parrott theyd ended the relationship, but Parrott and Heimbachs wife were skeptical. They arranged to set up Heimbach and Jessica in a trailer on Parrotts property to catch them having sex.
Parrott stood on a box outside the trailer and watched Heimbach and Jessica have sex inside, according to a police report. When the box broke under Parrotts weight, he entered the trailer to confront them. Heimbach allegedly choked him and chased him into a house, where Parrott threw a chair at him. Heimbach hit back, choking him into unconsciousness, according to the police report.
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KPN
(15,646 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)look like the queen of good taste
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)NEOBuckeye
(2,781 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,828 posts)Trump "emboldened" the Nazis
America fought a war against the Nazis and supposedly won.
Yet here they are marching to "take back America".
" Michael Von Kotch, a Pennsylvania resident who called himself a Nazi, said the rally made him "proud to be white."
He said that he's long held white supremacist views and that Trump's election has "emboldened" him and the members of his own Nazi group. "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fights-in-advance-of-saturday-protest-in-charlottesville/2017/08/12/155fb636-7f13-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.b54a0162fe07
WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)Talk about the definition of white trash. And these cretins really think they're the master race?
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Welcome to the feeling of being marginalized assholes!
Learn from it, and grow some empathy.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Why have Nazis become so unpopular?