The right hand of the alt-right doesn’t know what the left hand of the movement is doing. There’s infighting in the white separatist, neo-Nazi antisemitic movement.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – AUGUST 12: White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the « alt-right » with body armor and combat weapons evacuate comrades who were pepper sprayed after the « Unite the Right » rally was delcared a unlawful gathering by Virginia State Police August 12,2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. After clashes with anti-fascist protesters and police the rally was declared an unlawful gathering and people were forced out of Emancipation Park, where a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is slated to be removed. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Not only are many white separatists not participating in the ‘Unite the Right 2’ rally Sunday, the thinking by many on the alt-right is that its ideology of white separatism and white nationalism is currently and “naturally mainstream and populist.”
Donald Trump, the man who pushed the Obama birther conspiracy and still claims the exonerated Central Park Five are guilty and has a history of housing discrimination based on race among his other bold racist assertions beginning far before his campaign and proclaimed as recent as a few days ago when he referred to LeBron James and Don Lemon as dumb, was elected president. Many white nationalists see that as clear sign that their movement is a popular one.
So as previously perhaps unfathomable to admit, the Ku Klux Klan and the scores of white supremacist, anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi and xenophobic movements in the U. S. and in Europe are not just growing but blooming and emboldened.
But infighting among the groups in the wake of the riotous, bloody, indeed deadly, Charlottesville Unite the Right rally of a year ago shows their are two sides now. Trump said, after a series of conflicting statements, that he saw “very fine people on both sides” while attacking the “alt-left.”
Editor and founder of The Daily Stormer, the neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and Holocaust-denying website that calls for Jewish genocide, Andrew Anglin told his readers last week not to attend the ‘Unite the Right 2’ rally.
