TWP imploding is a big deal. To explain why would require a bit of a dive into internal far-right drama that you probably are better off not knowing, but I'll try to summarize.
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Critics of that have pointed out that Spencer pulls literally fives of people to his rallies and it's not working out. They argue that anyone on the far right is gonna be called a Nazi anyways, so one may as well just become a Nazi.
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This, incidentally, is peak fragility: "someone hurt my feelings so now I need to call for genocide."
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At any rate, a lot of people want to go back to edgy memes, to regrow the movement from its internet roots, "redpilling" people in their parlance. Others want to appeal to mainstream politics. It's a mess. This is where TWP comes in.
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TWP has been for a little while the street fighters of the movement. They engaged with antifa in Michigan to support Spencer's rally. There were a bunch of arrests, including a firearms charge on the right.
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In all of this, TWP has been the only group to maintain a consistent and strong showing at right wing events. And Spencer still canceled his tours anyways. Without TWP, there's no group left to fill that role.
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It's also dangerous because many of these groups are social support groups for dudes who may be violent. There is a growing concern of further radicalization, backlashes, and lone-wolf or retaliatory violence.
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I received a late-night message last night to be wary of terrorism. Some of these folks, the ones leaning full Nazi, are going to fall to the further radicalized segments. These segments promote a book, Siege, that advocates for things like mass casualty incidents.
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My sense is that the big rallies and clashes with antifa are going to dwindle. But random violence is going to increase. The groups haven't gone away, yet, but right now they're at a loss. New leaders will gather fragments, try new things.
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You'll see new groups and new symbols pop up. But they are dwindling faster than they can recruit. Arrests and doxxing and lawsuits are taking a huge, huge toll.
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I have extensively read their private chats, seen what they are afraid of. Y'all they spend a lot of time talking about what clothes to wear. A lot. This is no small deal.
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But few of them want anything like Charlottesville ever again. It is safe to say now that the alt-right is over.
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On the same theme Jake Laskey of the American Front out on the west coast also got in a fight about his media relations and he ended up stabbing them, he’s now in custody
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