'More extreme, more violent': experts' warning over khaki-clad Patriot Front

[Jilly_in_VA]

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For years, there has been an element of the ridiculous to Patriot Front and their rallies, which can look like a sort of cosplay version of a white nationalist movement.

At a Patriot Front demonstration in Washington in May, more than a hundred Patriot Front members marched along the National Mall wearing matching outfits of beige or brown chinos and blue button-up shirts.

The ensemble was topped off with the sort of affected accessorizing that parents subject children to at weddings: each man was required to wear sand-colored suspenders, with matching hats and sewn-on arm patches.

In their hands, the Patriot Front members carried shields that were a derivative version of Captain America’s defense system, and they had tight white fabric wrapped around their faces. The goal of their activity – Patriot Front aims to create a white ethno-state, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center – is serious, but they found themselves ripe for ridicule.

“You wear Walmart khakis!” one bystander heckled. “You are sloppy! You are not even matching! You all have different types of pants on! Cargo pants are out! Reclaim your virginity!”

In the years following Patriot Front’s 2017 inception, however, they have slowly grown in influence and threat, experts say. In 2023, those who monitor hate groups say Patriot Front is increasingly moving towards public displays and violence.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/16/patriot-front-far-right-violence

Here are your storm troopers. Right here.

[gatomedianoche]

1. They are the new Nazi storm troopers

There has been a spike in antisemitism since Trump went down the escalator in 2016 and declared that Mexico was sending rapists to the US. There’s a strong correlation between racism and antisemitism. Their rhetoric should be taken seriously. They are telegraphing their intentions. I fear for my safety as we approach 2024.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

3. Hate Nazis, domestic and foreign, present and past.

[Chainfire]

4. The are more akin to the Nazi Brownshirts; a drinking club with a hateful attitude.

Nothing is better than beer and sedition, unless of course you can add religion and guns. Those kinds of organizations are the country clubs of losers and misfits. They become a part of something for the first time in their miserable lives.

[Permanut]

10. Well said.

Eric Hoffer argued that prospective fanatics - the soon-to-be true believers - experience personal frustration so intense that their strongest desire is to lose their individuality altogether by surrendering to something greater than themselves.

[Warpy]

6. Well, they're definitely the brown shirts, er, brown pants.

but fortunately they haven't been able to coalesce around a national leader. TFG should have been their guy but he only used some of them and then failed to pardon them so he's probably not worth it now.

[hedda_foil]

9. Hitler got rid of them once he was in power. They thought they were more important than they were..

[Warpy]

12. Those morons always do think that

You'd think the pardon that never came for their buddies who got caught would have gotten through to them but no.

Feeling absolutely vital to the running of the universe is a heavy drug that these clowns just can't kick.

[flying_wahini]

2. Wanna Be Storm Troopers.

Just wanna be anybody else. Just not themselves.

[Initech]

5. Trump's own personal bootlicker MAGA conspiray theorist army.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Patriot Front going violent when they are not passing around child porn

Patriot Front Nazi Jared Boyce

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/05/patriot-front-member-facing-30-years-child

Right wing anti-LGBTQ but pro-child pornography

Link to tweet

[Kennah]

8. Sturmabteilung

[vercetti2021]

11. Philly gave them a nice welcome

By beating them up and fucking chasing them out like any good person would do to a Nazi