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The White Nationalists Are Winning

Fox News anchors and high-profile politicians are now openly pushing the racism of the alt-right. The fringe movement’s messages have permeated the mainstream Republican Party.
Source: Stephanie Keith / Reuters

The year since the white-supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been difficult for the rogues’ gallery of Nazis and pseudo-Nazis who championed it.

Jason Kessler, one of the organizers, was practically run out of town and faces a lawsuit that could force him to name his . Christopher Cantwell, who put on a but spent a lot of time after a warrant was issued for his arrest, . The anti-Semitic gadfly Tim “Baked Alaska” Gionet was banned from Twitter and has had difficulty . Richard Spencer, the white nationalist who lives off his , and is best known for being , says his miniature Nuremberg rallies are . Matthew Heimbach was arrested for assaulting his wife and stepfather-in-law after the latter caught Heimbach sleeping with wife. Andrew Anglin’s website, The Daily Stormer, has had trouble finding and maintaining a host in the.

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