Arizona GOP lawmaker blamed Charlottesville hate march on 'deep state' and 'Democrat mobs'
. Mark Finchem claimed in a newly resurfaced 2017 blog post that the white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that year was led not by neo-Nazis and other members of the alt-right, but by “two Democrat mobs fighting for control and narrative foundation.”
Finchem wrote that Charlottesville post just three days after the Unite the Right rally, where one woman was killed and several others were injured by swastika-bearing neo-Nazis. The Oath Keepers, the extremist group to which Finchem belongs, was founded in 2009 after the election of President Barack Obama and, according to its website, seeks to defend the Constitution. In practice, it also panders to far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists. The group peddles “a set of baseless conspiracy theories about the federal government working to destroy the liberties of Americans,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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