This is a great article. It outlines much of the path forward we saw as our best outcome here in Cville.
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Our goal in Cville, broadly, was to prevent not just Unite the Right but to shatter the very notion of the right uniting.
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Now we have these fragments that need to be squashed.
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The right's strongest moment--their *only* moment of unity--came at the UVa statue on August 11, when they outnumbered us 10-to-1.
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That says a lot about the fragility of a movement supposedly built on strength through unity.
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(n.b. fascism is all about gaining strength through unity so their failure to unite betrays the fact that they're even shitty at fascism)
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What's unspoken is the damage being done by the aftermath. Multiple people in jail. More charges coming. Lawsuits galore will bankrupt them.
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I just signed a petition to put Kessler and Spencer under grand jury investigation.
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And the three (soon to be more!) lawsuits filed against them are going to expose quite a bit about their operations in discovery.
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Spencer is running out of runway, fast. But the trouble still resides in Appalachia.
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