The Proud Boys spent four years feeding off the Trump presidency — but since the January 6th insurrection, the group has begun to splinter. We talked with activists, researchers, extremism experts, and others to find out what could happen next.
“I don’t want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.” McInnes would later cite Buchanan’s book, as well as Jim Goad’sComing Apart: The State of White America,officially parted ways with McInnes, citing “creative differences.” In a statement, arepresentative noted the many years between his tenure at the magazine and the creation of the Proud Boys.
Despite this seemingly explicit promotion of violence as part of the Proud Boys’ ethos, the rite that got the most media attention was the group’s no-masturbation pledge. In itself, a far-right group advocating for abstinence from self-pleasure is nothing new; there’s extensive history of white-supremacist groups equating masturbation with loss of masculinity, and the hugely popular subreddit NoFap, which traffics in such ideology, had been founded years before.
Though Kyle Chapman was kicked out of the Proud Boys three years ago, he is believed to be jockeying for power.Donald Trump’s election in 2016 only further emboldened the Proud Boys, providing far-right organizations with license to publicly spout extremist rhetoric.
But the group had already attracted members with white-nationalist bona fides, such as Brien James, a former member of the neo-Nazi group the Outlaw Hammerskins, according to the SPLC, and current head of the Indiana Proud Boys chapter; and Augustus Sol Invictus, the deputy of the group’s now-defunct militia wing, the Fraternal Order of the Alt-Knights , who in 2013 slaughtered a goat andBy late 2017, the Proud Boys had also established a presence in the Pacific Northwest, particularly...
Using violence as a public recruitment tactic represented a huge shift from far-right extremist groups in previous years, says Michael German, a Brennan Center for Justice fellow and former FBI agent who went undercover for far-right militia cases. While historically white-nationalist groups had downplayed violence in order to avoid law-enforcement attention, “the Proud Boys came out and vocally promoted themselves as violent actors, even in their initiation process.
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