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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 05:15 PM Apr 2018

'Imploding': Financial troubles. Lawsuits. Trailer park brawls. Has the alt-right peaked?

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, they’ve exhausted even some of the staunchest members.

One of the movement’s 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-right’s 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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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/imploding-lawsuits-fundraising-troubles-trailer-park-brawls-has-the-alt-right-peaked/2018/04/20/0a2fb786-39a6-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html

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'Imploding': Financial troubles. Lawsuits. Trailer park brawls. Has the alt-right peaked? (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP
Trailer Park Brawls Ukrainian Yankee Apr 2018 #1
Vermin. calimary Apr 2018 #2
Unfortunately, like the cock-roaches they are they will survive. bitterross Apr 2018 #3
Were they counting the Trump administration as Mr.Bill Apr 2018 #4
"Alt-right" ThoughtCriminal Apr 2018 #5
I saw trailer park brawls and I thought the Pailins were back in the news again. lpbk2713 Apr 2018 #6
Don't tell me you missed this malaise Apr 2018 #7
Lol. That's just Foxworthy! KPN Apr 2018 #8
They make Honey Boo Boo malaise Apr 2018 #9
You need to draw me a picture Generic Other Apr 2018 #12
Not sure I could sort out this one malaise Apr 2018 #14
Hitler is still dead. n/t NEOBuckeye Apr 2018 #10
Trump "emboldened" the Nazis keithbvadu2 Apr 2018 #11
Wow. WinstonSmith4740 Apr 2018 #13
All I have to say to them is Amimnoch Apr 2018 #15
Hating is hard!!! Generic Brad Apr 2018 #16
 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
3. Unfortunately, like the cock-roaches they are they will survive.
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 07:02 PM
Apr 2018

They may be down. But I won't count them out.

malaise

(269,054 posts)
7. Don't tell me you missed this
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 07:30 PM
Apr 2018
https://www.thedailybeast.com/matthew-heimbachs-traditional-workers-party-implodes-over-love-triangle-turned-trailer-brawl
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One of America’s highest-profile neo-Nazi parties is “no more” after a bizarre love triangle saw its leader locked up for assault, the party’s 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 spokesman’s wife.

The implosion began at a TWP compound in Paoli, Indiana, where Parrott’s wife, Jessica, was allegedly having an affair with Heimbach—who is married to Parrott’s stepdaughter from a previous marriage.

Heimbach and Jessica told Parrott they’d ended the relationship, but Parrott and Heimbach’s wife were skeptical. They arranged to “set up” Heimbach and Jessica in a trailer on Parrott’s 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 Parrott’s 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.

Plenty more at link

keithbvadu2

(36,828 posts)
11. Trump "emboldened" the Nazis
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 07:43 PM
Apr 2018

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

 

Amimnoch

(4,558 posts)
15. All I have to say to them is
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 08:05 PM
Apr 2018

Welcome to the feeling of being marginalized assholes!

Learn from it, and grow some empathy.

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