And HuffPost goes to Hungary. No Images? Click here       This is HUFFPOST FRINGE, your weekly postcard from the political wilderness, with reporters Luke O'Brien and Christopher Mathias.    Another day, another dox Your HuffPost Fringe correspondents are still marveling at the implosion of the alt-right over the last few months. Eli Mosley got caught stealing some valor. Richard Spencer got humiliated at Michigan State, canceled his campus speaking tour, and conceded that “Antifa is winning.” A broken cuckbox destroyed an entire neo-Nazi party. Christopher “Crying Nazi” Cantwell admitted to being an FBI informant. Little Nazi Andrew Anglin is still in hiding (but is probably in Ohio). And now, as HuffPost was the first to report, alt-right infighting has led to the doxxing of Donald Trump’s most influential white nationalist Twitter troll. “Ricky Vaughn” — whose racist MAGA propaganda earned him a spot in the top 150 influencers on the 2016 presidential election — was exposed last week as a 28-year-old finance bro living on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Ricky Vaughn’s real name is Douglass Mackey. He’s the son of a D.C. lobbyist and a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont.   Mackey’s doxxing came courtesy of The Great Optics Debate, which has divided the alt-right into two main camps: the real-world extremists who want to dress up, hold big rallies and mix it up in the streets, and the online “optics cucks,” who think it wiser to keep meme-ing fascism into the mainstream. Mackey, aka Vaughn, was an optics cuck. “I’m dividing the movement between effective people and dumb losers,” he wrote on Gab, that fever swamp of fascists and neo-Nazis. Amid all the arguing between these two camps, white nationalist Republican congressional candidate Paul Nehlen got angry at Vaughn, and doxxed him, publishing Mackey’s name on Gab. HuffPost was able to confirm the dox was legit and published a story on Friday. Nehlen’s decision to dox Mackey largely completed his five-month journey from alt-right hero to persona non grata. The stunt got him kicked off Gab, and as Fringe columnist Angry White Men documented, a whole bunch of neo-Nazis have been quick to disavow him. Spectre called Nehlen an “oily little shibird traitor.” Mike Enoch tweeted: “I stand with Ricky. Doxing is inexcusable behavior. #IStandWithRicky.” Some of the Nazis even started a little fundraiser for Mackey.   Mackey’s parents, meanwhile, were sad to learn their son was leading this racist double life. “We were devastated to learn this week of Doug’s beliefs and on-line activities as reported in the Huffington Post,” they said in a statement. “They are antithetical to the values we hold and with which he was raised. We are still trying to understand how he could have done something like this and hope he will find some way to make amends for the harm he has caused.” READ MORE   ‘All they can give us is fear’       In Hungary this week, voters elected far-right radical Viktor Orban to a third term. Friend of the Fringe (FoF) Nick Robins Early was in Budapest ahead of the election and filed a chilling dispatch. An excerpt:   The leaflets, supposedly from ISIS militants looking for apartments to rent in the capital, appeared in Hungarians’ mailboxes last week. “We are looking for an apartment for Mohamed Hassan and his family! Motto: Allah Akbar!” read the text beneath a photo of a bearded man with assault weapons and three children in military fatigues. The letters were fake, of course, and just the latest anti-immigrant incitement in a strange and bitterly fought election that will be decided on Sunday. But it is unclear who sent them. Despite a law that requires clear labeling of campaign material, there was no information about who printed or distributed the leaflets. “This is clearly a political campaign propaganda tool,” said Marta Pardavi, co-chair of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a human rights group. Pardavi says the leaflets echo the government’s anti-migrant messages and warnings of terrorists waiting at the gates to get in. “It’s ridiculous in a way,” Pardavi added. “Unless you’ve already been fooled into thinking that this is real; that there are migrant hordes invading Hungary.” Orban has routinely demonized Muslims in Hungary (less than half a percent of the population), resisted an EU-mandated refugee quota, and spent a millions on a border fence. He’s also been cheered by white nationalists stateside for portraying himself as the protector of a white Christian Europe under siege by Africans and Muslims. Hungarians, he’s stated, don’t want their “own color, traditions and national culture to be mixed by others.” And like so many on the far right, Orban has lashed out at George Soros, the Hungary-born Holocaust survivor and liberal billionaire. Last year, Orban’s government spent nearly $50 million on anti-Soros ads, an anti-Semitic campaign falsely portraying Soros as an advocate of unlimited immigration. In a thinly veiled anti-Semitic speech about Soros, Orban said that Hungary’s enemies  “do not believe in work, but speculate with money; they have no homeland, but feel that the whole world is theirs.” HuffPost Fringe is going to start paying closer attention to Europe, where the far right is making big and scary gains. State officials in Croatia, Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria and Poland have grown bolder in their bigotry against Muslims, Jews, African refugees and Roma. And they have been eager to rehabilitate the legacies of 20th-century fascists and Nazi-sympathizing political parties. Some have dabbled in Holocaust denial. At a Budapest polling station on election day, Nick caught up with a young voter frustrated by the deeply divisive campaign Orban and his Fidesz party had run in Hungary.   “They don’t promise anything, they don’t have a program, they cannot give us anything,” he said.  “All they can give us is fear.” READ MORE   Cuck o’ the Week   Two weeks ago, Ezra Klein at Vox wrote a withering takedown of Sam Harris, the popular atheist podcaster, for a flattering interview Harris did with racists’ favorite academic, Charles Murray, who’s made a career out of trying to prove that white people are inherently smarter than black people. Harris promptly lost his shit over Klein’s piece, publishing his and Klein’s private email exchanges. (This only had the effect of making Klein look reasonable, and Harris look like a petulant child.) Harris, as his want, then challenged Klein to a debate. Klein accepted and published a transcript yesterday. He also wrote a good summation of Harris’ worldview: These hypotheses about biological racial difference are now, and have always been, used to advance clear political agendas — in Murray’s case, an end to programs meant to redress racial inequality, and in Harris’s case, a counterstrike against identitarian concerns he sees as a threat to his own career. Yes, identity politics are at play in this conversation, but that includes, as it always has, white identity politics. To Harris, and you’ll hear this explicitly, identity politics is something others do. To me, it’s something we all do, and that he and many others refuse to admit they’re doing. This is one of the advantages of being the majority group: Your concerns get coded as concerns; it’s everyone else who is playing identity politics. Harris has always been an anti-Muslim bigot, albeit one who is lauded by liberals. As Max Fisher at The New York Times noted, “That Sam Harris is only now crossing into mainstream unacceptability is a really powerful reminder that overt bigotry against Muslims remain widely accepted, even praised, in polite American society.” New Atheists like Harris, with their obnoxious and fundamentalist brand of disbelief, have never been the rationalists they’d have you believe. They actually have quite a bit in common with the alt-right, and it’s no surprise that the two movements are increasingly overlapping online.     Up Shitzkrieg A 22-year-old student at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania was arrested last week after scrawling racist graffiti on his roommates’ belongings. “N****r get out of here,” the graffiti read. Yukai Yang faces charges of ethnic intimidation, institutional vandalism and criminal mischief. He’s free after posting $10,000 bail.     Blood and Soiled 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 ... If you’ve been a longtime reader of HuffPost Fringe, you might be excused for thinking that the only purveyors of white supremacist podcasts are “The Right Stuff” and “Radio Aryan.” This week, I’ve stepped out of that bubble and selected Jim Goad’s “Group Hug” podcast. Now, for those of you fortunate enough to have not grown up in the ‘90s, Goad was once semi-famous for publishing the short-lived zine “ANSWER Me!” which featured stories on serial murderers, pedophiles, and Nazis. Think of it as pre-Internet clickbait. Beyond that — and his record of domestic violence for which he served over two years in prison — he’s mainly known for his brand of super-edgy, ironic bigotry. He writes for the unabashedly racist Taki’s Magazine, and his podcast has seen guests the likes of Andrew Anglin, Richard Spencer, and Jared Taylor. Last week he interviewed Sam Dickson, one of the intellectual godfathers (so to speak) of the alt-right. Dickson is a Southern attorney who’s done legal representation for Klan members and helped Richard Spencer in his successful lawsuit against Auburn University. He also speaks like he was plucked directly from the Reconstruction-era South, waxing poetic about the days of Jim Crow and dropping words like “Negroes” and “Orientals.” As genteel as he comes across, Dickson’s views are as poisonous as those held by the most hardened of neo-Nazis. On the subject of lynching in the U.S., Dickson made it known that we “can’t deny that in rape cases and murder cases, blacks were often denied justice,” but scoffed at the idea that thousands of African-Americans were victims of extrajudicial killings. “I think it’s to be remembered, though, that these were sporadic incidents,” he added. “One is too many, but they were not anywhere near the number of incidents that history now tells us happened.” In 2015, the Equal Justice Initiative, an Alabama nonprofit, concluded that nearly 4,000 black people were lynched from 1877 to 1950. And, in any event, Dickson wanted listeners to know that whites are today’s victims, especially white people who cling to heretical views like, say, white supremacy. To Dickson, growing up during the civil rights era was like “watching ‘Psycho,’ and knowing that Norman Bates is going to kill the woman in the shower but being unable to do anything about it.” On racial egalitarianism? “Common sense” suggests inequality. While discussing last year’s Charlottesville rally, he even insisted without irony that not even Bull Connor refused to protect African-Americans who were protesting segregation. And then there was the inevitable discussion of the alt-right’s ultimate goal: the white ethnostate. Dickson spoke of mass racial separation with the glossiest of euphemisms, referring to it as a “divorce.” Goad himself wondered aloud how liberals could favor no-fault divorce in personal relationships but oppose racial and ethnic separatism – a line of attack that wasn’t as clever as he believed it to be. As to who would be allowed to reside in this Aryan utopia, Dickson suggested “people whose ancestors were dyophysitical Christians in 1492.” And how will they create it? Like fellow white nationalist Jared Taylor, Dickson labors under the delusion that people will just peaceably separate, ignoring the history of violent ethnic cleansings and expulsions that have taken place throughout world history, including on this very continent. Whether he’s being naïve or dishonest is beside the point. The fact remains that carving a white ethnostate out of a multicultural democracy will take more than wishful thinking. It will require years of fighting and an incalculable amount of blood to be spilled.     HuffPost is now a part of Oath and a part of Verizon. On May 25th 2018 we will be introducing a new Oath Privacy Policy which will explain how your data is used and shared. Learn More. White supremacy won't fall with just a few statues. Did a friend send you this? Subscribe to HuffPost Fringe. 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