To look at the pitiful showing of Jason Kessler’s Unite the Right 2 outing last weekend, the casual observer might wonder if the racist “alt-right” was routed. But to mistake Kessler as a one-man bellwether for the strength of white supremacist ideas is to misapprehend — and underestimate — the movement to which he belongs.
Racist “alt-right” former golden boy Richard Spencer is continuing to unravel.
The Unite the Right rally in August 2017 looked to be a coming-out party of sorts for the racist "alt-right" as well as a turning point for the white supremacist and white nationalist movement in the country.
Jason Kessler has been all over the map about how large his planned “Unite the Right 2” rally in Washington, D.C., will be and even who will attend.
The organizer of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally is dropping his legal fight with Charlottesville over how the city issues permits and the denial of permission to hold a second rally in town this year.
For Jason Eric Kessler, the fall came swiftly and proved to be severe.
Elliott Kline has been quiet for nearly six months, with no public posts on social media or public appearances.
Since early last year, the far-right groups Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys have held more than a dozen rallies throughout the Pacific Northwest under the banner of “freedom” — and with talk of bringing weapons and declarations that “this is war,” members are threatening to make next weekend’s march the most combustible yet.
As the first anniversary of Unite the Right approached, Charlottesville festers with high tensions and uncertainty as to what might happen on August 11 and 12.
First, the question was “Where’s Jason Kessler?”
