| No Images? Click here   This is HUFFPOST FRINGE, your weekly postcard from the political wilderness, with reporters Luke O'Brien and Christopher Mathias. The Conservative Political Action Conference has always been catnip for far-right extremists, who work tirelessly to insinuate themselves into the political mainstream. Richard Spencer was a longtime CPAC attendee until his racist profile reached a level in 2017 where conference organizers were forced to boot him.But this year’s CPAC was another order of magnitude. At times, the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, just outside of Washington, D.C., seemed to be crawling with white nationalists. Nick Fuentes, a white ethno-state endorser and host of the fashy “America First” podcast, showed up. So did Peter Brimelow, an old-school coat-and-tie racist who runs VDARE. Marcus Epstein, an anti-immigrant attorney who was charged with assault in 2007 for calling a black woman a racial slur and trying to karate chop her in the head, was photographed next to Mike Cernovich, the racist far-right propagandist and troll behind the PizzaGate conspiracy theory.The verboten Spencer set himself up at a neighboring hotel to receive young conservatives eager to debate -- or simply chat -- with America’s alt-right posterboy. And there were several other racists and fascists strolling about the Gaylord last weekend, hobnobbing with red-meat conservatives. HuffPost cataloged as many as we could. Chuck Johnson, the racist far-right troll and occasional advisor to the Trump administration who has helped Nazis raise money, once tried out for “Survivor,” a reality TV show where greedy narcissists haul 40-pounds sacks of coconuts down a beach in an attempt to win undeserved fame. Chuck Johnson did not make the cut for “Survivor.” HuffPost obtained his audition tape, which upset Chuck Johnson. Jared Taylor, the founder of white nationalist organization American Renaissance, sued Twitter recently for banning him from its platform. Taylor is just the latest in a weepy line of racist cucks to challenge social media companies in court for what they allege is an infringement of their free speech rights to be vile. Twitter, of course, is not the commons. And nobody is preventing Taylor the Cuck from continuing to preach hate at his events or in his own publications. Few things give white supremacists temper tantrums like Twitter shutting down their accounts. But few “identitarians” peg their sense of self-worth so closely to social media that they’d pay a $500/hour lawyer to throw a tantrum in court. To understand the dangers posed by today’s far-right extremists we need to listen to them. Each week, the Angry White Men blog highlights a snippet of conversation from an “alt-right” podcast to show you how fascists and racists really think. Don't say we didn't warn you, America…. Jason Kessler keeps doing dumb things. The white nationalist and former Daily Caller writer who organized last year’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a driver killed counter-protester Heather Heyer, has already celebrated Heyer’s death, proclaimed the innocence of accused murderer James Fields Jr. and announced plans for a second rally. On Twitter, he’s been sniping at Roberta Kaplan, the attorney spearheading the massive civil lawsuit against him and his fashy companions. He also started his own show – a sad little whingefest called the “Unite the Right Podcast,” which has zero guests and will run every week until Aug. 12, the anniversary of the Charlottesville rally. The first episode, which aired Feb. 26, was 30 minutes of complaining and deflection. Kessler started by telling listeners about the changes they can expect at the next “Unite the Right” rally, which are mainly aimed at repairing their tattered reputation.For starters, no more leaving evidence of violent intent on a Discord server, like advice on concealing weapons or memes about running down protesters. Kessler lamented that the “general public does not have a sense of humor about that stuff.” He told people not to go in full Nazi regalia, blaming the presence of overt neo-Nazis and Klansmen last time on the police not doing their jobs. And he lashed out at everyone he believes conspired against him from the beginning – a shadowy group that “hunkered down in their meeting rooms” and thought about ways to sabotage his rally.“I’m talkin’ about the Charlottesville City Council, I’m talkin’ about the Charlottesville Police Department, and I’m talkin’ about the governor Terry McAuliffe, and probably anti-white hate organizations like the ADL and the SPLC,” he said, “and they all plotted together how to throw our rally into chaos or to make us look bad after the fact, spinning their narratives, exploiting the death of Heather Heyer to try and get political ramifications [and] censorship put onto us.”Right, Jason. It’s not the fault of the person who brainstormed this rally and invited all these violent groups to attend. It has nothing to do with the white supremacists who showed up at the rally anticipating a bloody melee. Or with you encouraging impressionable young men to “help bait antifa into attacking the Proud Boys” organization. No, it’s everyone’s fault but yours.  White supremacy won't fall with just a few statues.Did a friend send you this? Subscribe to HuffPost Fringe.©2018 HuffPost | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 |
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