Alt-right activists say Trump and Bannon are giving them "space to destroy" by keeping FBI away

[DonViejo]

MONDAY, JUL 24, 2017 02:51 PM EDT

Top alt-right podcasters say the Trump administration is deliberately backing off investigating domestic extremists

MATTHEW SHEFFIELD

While the neo-fascist alt-right is not entirely happy with President Donald Trump’s first few months in office, one thing for which they are grateful is that the new administration is giving them free reign to engage in building their movement, completely unencumbered by any law enforcement scrutiny of their activities.

“He’s going to give us space to destroy,” Michael Peinovich, the creator of The Right Stuff, an alt-right podcast network said during a Sunday guest appearance on “Fash the Nation,” the movement’s most popular web radio show.

Peinovich, who also goes by the pen name “Mike Enoch,” was referencing a 2015 remark by Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, then the mayor of Baltimore, which some people interpreted as giving support to rioters who committed numerous acts of violence in the city following the acquittal of several police officers who had been on trial for the death of a black resident.

“He’s going to give us space to operate, and frankly, it is space to destroy,” Peinovich continued.

“Now is the time that we have to make hay while the sun shines . . . while these investigations of ‘domestic terrorist groups’ are not being funded by the government, they’re not being pushed by the Department of Homeland Security” argued one of the co-hosts of the program, an anonymous former Republican political staffer who calls himself Jazzhands McFeels.

“We’d probably be facing fucking [racketeering] charges or some shit like that,” Peinovich said, discussing what he believed might have happened if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 presidential election.

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http://www.salon.com/2017/07/24/alt-right-activists-say-trump-and-bannon-are-giving-them-space-to-destroy-by-keeping-fbi-away/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Get used to it, RIGHT HERE on DU I was just lectured to by someone

who will make sure GOP retains power.

They can do that here, I cant talk about how great the D party is and the mistakes we cant do again, I will get banned if I do.

[LonePirate]

2. That snippet reads like satire - nihilistic satire - but sadly it's all too real.

[CrispyQ]

3. I wish the people who wanted to destroy had a clue how difficult it is to build & create.

"Some will cheer the decline of America. But I think we’ll miss it when it’s gone." ~Chris Uhlmann, Australian journalist on Donald Trump's performance at the G20.