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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOne year after Charlottesville, the alt-right is gathering again -- in Washington
At last years Unite the Right rally, hundreds of members of the alt-right and white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, purportedly to defend a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, as it faced removal approved by the City Council. The event was supposed to be the alt-rights zenith, coming into its own as a real political force with real political power and, tangentially, grabbing the ear of the president.
The event began with a torchlit rally where attendees shouted, You will not replace us! (some replacing you with Jews). The next day, the event attracted a counterprotest, during which a self-avowed Nazi sympathizer drove a car into a crowd, killing a young woman. Afterward, President Donald Trump famously remarked that there were very fine people on both sides. The events werent the high point of the alt-right but the beginning of the end of the alt-rights real or imagined political effectiveness.
And on August 11, theyre doing it again this time, outside the White House.
Its not clear how many people will attend Unite the Right 2 many white nationalists have already said they have no interest in going, while others who might otherwise attend are enmeshed in legal troubles stemming from last years rally. Meanwhile, organizers of the coalition DC Against Hate have told at least one outlet that they expect at least 1,000 counterprotesters to attend events aimed against Unite the Right 2 under the banner Shut It Down DC.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/one-year-after-charlottesville-the-alt-right-is-gathering-again--in-washington/ar-BBLzycq?li=BBnb7Kz
There are good people on both sides - Donald J Trump.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)The cream of the crap.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)this rally hoping for divisiveness and violence. They want Resisters to show up and get lured into fights again. I wouldn't go to that rally since it is a set up by Russia and because those people are great at inciting violence and they are dangerous bullies when in groups.
I have been to tons of protests and would not go near this one. It is a Russian set-up and dangerous.
Behind the Aegis
(53,975 posts)...only the clothing style has changed.