'Whiter Every Election Cycle': How Identity Evropa, a Far-Right Hate Group, Joined the GOP
According to leaked chat logs, the white-supremacist group has actively reinvented itself as a ‘respectable’ group in order to entice Republicans.
Kelly Weill
03.08.19 4:44 AM ET
The white nationalist group Identity Evropa is so cozy with the Republican Party that members led their College Republican clubs and campaigned in support of GOP congressional candidates.
At least one Identity Evropa fan, who is not a member of the group, attended CPAC last weekend where he demanded an autograph from a leftist podcaster who, tripping on acid, signed the book “eat shit.”
Identity Evropa is a fascist organization. Its members have been involved in violent street brawls, including 2017’s deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. While other white supremacist organizations imploded after the rally, Identity Evropa attempted to cast aside the alt-right’s tarnished image and rebrand as a “clean-cut” organization. The makeover was an attempt to appeal to the mainstream Republican Party, according to chat logs released Wednesday by the media collective Unicorn Riot.
But despite its new face, the group stayed true to its fascist heart, the leaked conversations reveal.
The chat group’s name was an ironic nod at the image Identity Evropa tries to present to outsiders: “Nice Respectable People Group.” The image landed the white supremacist group a softball interview with the Today Show last year. Privately, Identity Evropa members celebrated the interview as a recruitment driver, the leaked chat logs reveal.
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membership seems to warrant, perhaps a function of modern communications plus their "scarily" recruiting nice college boys while passing themselves off as normal, like that "Nice Respectable People Group" thing. Their name's pronounced Yooropa, but in the very unlikely event I ever speak with one I'll be sure to mispronounce it. 
Someone who joined to check them out in 2018 was told by their recruiter that their membership was about 1000, so I'm assuming substantially less. Wikipedia said that in 2016 they were about 200. A conference conspicuously held in a white part of the country "at least 100 young white faces," of whom maybe 5 were women's.
One kid told our guy his parents knew he was there but asked him to be careful not to be in any photos or videos. Smart parents. About 40 declined to join in a group photo. If all goes well and America calms down after this nasty wave we're on now, those who'll be permanently tied to a neonazi/fascist group, long defunct or not, are not going to be happy.
