The Proud Boys Love a Winner
A second Trump term would validate the violent ideologies of far-right extremists—and allow them to escape legal jeopardy.
Editor’s Note: This article is part of “If Trump Wins,” a project considering what Donald Trump might do if reelected in 2024.
Until the very end of his presidency, Donald Trump’s cultivation of the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, and other violent far-right groups was usually implicit. He counted on their political support but stopped short of asking them to do anything.
Trump had sometimes known as —riling up followers in ways that made bloodshed likely while preserving plausible deniability on his part.
