Sturm und Drag
Neo-Nazis have a real problem with drag queens. Is it misplaced? Historical? Antisemitic? What does the larger “anti-grooming” crowd make of it?
Neo-Nazis have a real problem with drag queens. Is it misplaced? Historical? Antisemitic? What does the larger “anti-grooming” crowd make of it?
“There’s no such thing as fake news in a courtroom. There are facts—and we’re going to prove the facts.”
When I set out to cover the “Unite the Right 2” rally, scheduled for 5:30 p.m. at Lafayette Square, I didn’t know what to expect.
Standing next to David Duke and Richard Spencer last August in Charlottesville, I couldn’t imagine what America would look like a year later. I was surrounded by neo-Nazis and alt-right activists shouting anti-Semitic slurs—at least one with a large swastika tattooed on his back
When white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville this summer, they shouted, “You will not replace us!”—eventually shifting the phrase, alarmingly, to “Jews will not replace us!” For most watching across the country, the protesters’ blatant expressions of prejudice were deeply unnerving. But where do their slogans come from, and what are they trying to convey?
At last count, Tanya Gersh had received more than 700 threatening, hateful and anti-Semitic messages. Even now, one arrives every few days.
Since December 2016, the Jews of Whitefish, Montana have received hundreds of hateful, threatening messages. Our reporters checked in on the town six months later.
In the wake of Charlottesville and the moral equivalency debate spawned by President Donald Trump’s comments, Noah Rothman has argued that, while it’s incumbent upon the right to get its house in order and expel white supremacists from its coalition, the left would do well to examine violent tendencies within its own ranks.
It didn’t take long for the recently elected government to have a troubling impact on the state of the country’s democracy.
A reporter visits the Montana resort town where a vicious neo-Nazi campaign is targeting Jews.