We Are Proud Boys review: chilling expos illuminates Republicans' fascist turn

[UpInArms]

Andy Campbell has produced a smart, well-written and brilliantly reported book about another loathsome progeny of the most dangerous union of our time, the horror couple responsible for so many of the burgeoning threats to American democracy: Donald Trump and the internet.

Its subject is the Proud Boys, racist, beer-addled and violence-addicted street fighters who have become best friends with many of Trump’s warmest supporters, from Ann Coulter to Roger Stone.

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“If you look at who the Proud Boys really are,” said Cohen, “they’re an army. This is Trump’s army … and when he loses he’s going to use them to try and keep control of power.”

Which of course is what happened. Proud Boys were some of the most active players when Trump urged the crowd in front of him on 6 January 2021 to march on the US Capitol.

Thirteen months after the deadly attack, the Republican endorsement of fascist violence became official: the Republican National Committee unanimously approved a resolution which memorialized the Capitol attack as nothing more than “legitimate political discourse.”

Campbell’s book provides an indispensable account of exactly how the Grand Old Party reached that disgraceful destination.

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/25/we-are-proud-boys-review-republicans-fascist-trump-andy-campbell

[Frustratedlady]

1. Ann Coulter? Really?

What happened to Stone's girlfriend? You never see her hanging on his arm, anymore. I assume the coupling of Coulter and Stone is strictly political trouble-making.

I haven't seen Coulter around in a long time. Is she still trying to look sexy? She should be old enough by now to realize it ain't gonna happen.

[UpInArms]

2. She hits my puke button every time

Coulter credited the group with saving her life when “2,000 antifa”, leftwing protesters, tried to shut down a speech at UC Berkeley. If she hadn’t invited 20 Proud Boys, she said, she “might not have made it to the campus at all”.

The Proud Boys are “brawny, tattooed brutes”, Coulter cooed.

[LastDemocratInSC]

4. In other words the brutes are as tough as a roll of paper towels.

[prodigitalson]

6. an MMA champion couldn't fight off 100 average people singlehandedly

This is in line with their thermopylae fetish.

[czarjak]

5. In Trump We Trust? Head Cheerleader for Citizens United too!

[Chainfire]

3. They need to be dealt with like any other terrorist group.

American terrorists are no different than Saudi terrorists.