Profile of Nathan Damigo, the now famous puncher from the Berkeley rally. A perfect storm of America

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Elliott Lusztig? @ezlusztig

Profile of Nathan Damigo, the now famous puncher from the Berkeley rally. A perfect storm of American dystopia.

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In diverse California, a young white supremacist seeks to convert fellow college students
A voice from the alt-right at Cal State Stanislaus





Nathan Damigo, a former Marine corporal and the founder of a white nationalist organization, is an increasingly sought-after voice in the so-called alt-right movement. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Hailey Branson-PottsHailey Branson-PottsContact Reporter

Nathan Damigo brought his message of white separatism to an unusual place: an ethnic studies class at Cal State Stanislaus called Searching for America.

Speaking to a crowd filled with black and Latino students, he wove a country song tale of whites becoming an endangered minority in America and compared their plight to Native Americans — before describing his fantasy for a utopian homeland for whites not unlike Indian reservations.


“Even though horrible things did happen to the indigenous people … there was land set aside where they could be who they were and express themselves how they wanted to, and they could have a form of government that reflected them,” Damigo said. “And I think that is something that we want.”

The comparison elicited aghast stares from the crowd late last month. It was a reminder that Damigo, a 30-year-old Cal State Stanislaus student, was far from a gathering one recent weekend in Washington with like-minded white men, some of whom stretched out their arms in Nazi salutes........................



....................The loosely defined alt-right, a white nationalist movement, has been emboldened by Trump and his rhetoric about Mexicans and Muslims, his sharing of white supremacists’ tweets and his appointment of Stephen K. Bannon — the outgoing executive chairman of Breitbart News, a purveyor of alt-right ideology — as his chief strategist................................





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And a few tweets: He has a tweet thread about this


Elliott Lusztig? @ezlusztig 2h2 hours ago

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3. So who is Nathan Damigo? First: He's a vet w/severe PTSD. Another casualty of a disastrous war. Let's start there.




Elliott Lusztig? @ezlusztig 2h2 hours ago

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4. Second: He's a felon-nearly a murderer. Is there enough sanity in our conversation about guns to see what is objectively wrong here?
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1. A violet video of his exploits....

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2. the trump regime

opened all the sewers in ameriKKKa and let all this filth ooze out to poison the culture, openly. Used to be a cancer where no one knew where it was until an MRI or some such, now......decent people have to look at a growing tumor like this POS, EVERY FUCKING DAY!!!!!! AmeriKKKan despicable deplorables stink to high heaven and are inviting karma down on their heads, I hope it makes them suffer badly, painfully. Sad fact is we are all, over the next four years, no matter who's steering this crippled ship of state, are going to suffer, some horribly.

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3. This movement is an infectous tumor. And promoted by Trump!