How the ‘Trump Effect’ will live on: Openly fascist ‘Patriot Front’ haters gear up for next phase
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Trumpism—the ugly right-wing politics of hatefulness and division that coalesced under the current occupant of the Oval Office—and its effects will linger in the United States long after Donald Trump has vacated the presidency. This is acutely the case whHow the ‘Trump Effect’ will live on: Openly fascist ‘Patriot Front’ haters gear up for next phase
Trumpism—the ugly right-wing politics of hatefulness and division that coalesced under the current occupant of the Oval Office—and its effects will linger in the United States long after Donald Trump has vacated the presidency. This is acutely the case when it comes to the spread of white nationalist hate that he has enabled and empowered. The openly fascist hate group Patriot Front—known best to the public for the fliers its members plaster around towns and college campuses with such slogans as “We Have a Right to Exist,” “Fascism: The Next Step for America,” “Will Your Speech Be Hate Speech?”—is the living embodiment of this new reality. A deep dive into the group by Buzzfeed’s Jane Lytvynenko reveals how its danger and viciousness extends well beyond those fliers, and how it plans to keep it going long after Trump. Read more