Oh, we’ve been here before, haven’t we? Many are the times that conservatives have set out to excommunicate the extremists in their midst. These purges are sometimes necessary (the Birchers, Ayn Rand) and sometimes hasty (Joe Sobran), but they always tend to target perceived bigots, those who use their so-called conservatism as a cover for hatred of abstract groups. This was true even of Rand, whose contempt for dissenters inspired one of Whittaker Chambers’ better lines: “From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard from painful necessity, commanding, ‘To a gas chamber—go!’” Now the kids are getting in on the fun. Enter Nick Fuentes, a 22-year-old Donald Trump supporter and head of something called the Groypers, which, far from being the Bill Clinton tribute group that a cursory read of its name might suggest, is actually an alt-right online front. The Groypers made headlines last week when they heckled a speech by that notorious RINO Donald Trump Jr. Their intent, it appears, was to drive a wedge between Trump and event moderator Charlie Kirk, a conservative campus organizer whom they deem to be insufficiently right-wing. The disruption they caused was so protracted that both Trump and Kirk were eventually forced to flee, allowing Fuentes to declare victory.
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Poster Comment:
This article is important for a couple of reasons: 1) Matt Purple is now the managing editor of Am Con, who gets a lot of facts wrong on his way to this smear job and 2) the comments section, where senior editor Rod Dreher tried, lamely, to defend the article "in the here and now". Note the ratings on the comments.
