Inside the DeploraBall: The Trump-Loving Trolls Plotting a GOP Takeover
When scrappy Tennessee frontiersman Andrew Jackson defeated John Quincy Adams, Harvard-educated scion of an American political dynasty, in the particularly ugly election of 1829, his supporters were so keyed up about their victory – the people’s victory over the political establishment – that tens of thousands of them descended on D.C. from as far as 500 miles away to celebrate his inauguration.
After the swearing-in, a crush of bodies followed Jackson as he rode horseback to the White House, where they got so drunk and rowdy and out of control that the only way the White House staff could get them to leave was by luring them outside with more booze. (Jackson himself had to be extracted hours earlier out of fears he would be smothered to death.) That was the beginning of the modern Democratic Party.
Thursday night's DeploraBall, a celebration by the right-wing trolls who helped elect Donald Trump, wasn't quite as wild as Jackson's party. But it was clear attendees have similar political ambitions – and that Paul Ryan should be afraid.
The evening before Trump's inauguration, the stately National Press Club has became the "basket" Hillary Clinton once referred to: infamous islamophobe Pamela Geller is gabbing with two girlfriends by the open bar, hipster bigot Gavin McInnes is leading a "U-S-A!" chant in the atrium, Mike "Misogyny Gets You Laid" Cernovich is FaceTiming his wife from the ballroom, and James O'Keefe – whose sting operation earlier that week exposed a plot to disrupt the DeploraBall with stink bombs – is posing for a photo with a fan. Meanwhile, dozens of less famous (though no less enthusiastic) Twitter trolls mill around in ballgowns and sport coats, squealing in excitement as they encounter their Internet friends IRL.
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It's the scent of body odor, ratty mink and swamp gas.