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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You had me up until the very last sentence of which I’m deeply skeptical. I guess we’ll see in the coming weeks and months/I hope you’re right.
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There will be a new alt-right, something that emerges. This version is in its death throes, though. My prediction is what emerges is a euro-style identitarian movement.
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Ah this version, ok I see what you mean. And by “Euro style identitiarian movement,” do you mean à la the “awakened European” politics of Identity Evropa or like the kind of fascistic politics we actually see in Europe?
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Something kind of in-between. IE ie kind of a weird spinoff of that identitarianism, and I think it'll move more towards the fascistic politics of Euro identitarianism, perhaps not as far gone as Hungary and Poland but in that direction.
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Heimbach recently traveled to Brno, for instance, and fascistic Euro identitarianism is in a lot of ways similar to the Appalachian working class politick he tried to coopt. The framework is there for sure.
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