According to Gavin McInnes' account of founding the Proud Boys, America constituted an exclusive "Nation of Clubs" before feminists like Gloria Steinem disrupted the hierarchy where society assumed that white culture, militant jingoism, and restrictive gender roles were the norm.
McInnes purposely makes the distinction btw. cultural superiority and racial superiority ambiguous; here he euphemistically calls white supremacists like Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor "western chauvinists" and "nationalists". He refers to the Proud Boys under the same terms.
When America was a "Nation of Clubs", men's organizations like "The Know Nothings" existed, which McInnes favorably mentions. "The Know Nothings" brutalized immigrants and lobbied for immigrant bans and quotas.
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McInnes also favorably mentions the Catholic men's group known as "The Knights of Columbus", named after Christopher Columbus. The Knights campaign for banning abortion and same-sex marriage and they endorse conversion therapy for LGBT minors.
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Gavin McInnes and Haley Adams are pragmatic white supremacists since they understand violently reducing immigration and enforcing regressive white cultural values can maintain the disproportionate economic and political power afforded to white men better than any "ethnostate". 
Hence many of the memes circulating among the Proud Boys and their alt-right allies glorify the "traditional" family where the white wife meekly pumps out babies for her white authoritarian husband, like this meme from California Proud Boy Tim Brown illustrates.
Some Proud Boys gathered in Portland on August, 4 also had stickers depicting smiling, pregnant white women tacked on their helmets while they carried sticks, clubs, and guns to attack anti-fascists. They also wrote "Deus Vault" on their helmets in support of the Crusades.
Haley Adams, the Proud Boys, and Patriot Prayer believe they're on a mission to preserve "the west", and preserving the west entails America retaining its white majority, Christian hegemony, and the unquestioned dominance of rich white men over politics and capital accumulation.
Hence Haley Adams and Proud Boys like Russel Schultz find disproportionate violence acceptable. Here Adams threatens to bring 2000 Proud Boys to Portland for revenge upon the town and Schultz gloats about almost running over a female protester.
Schultz committed other violent acts against female protesters in the recent past. During February of 2018 he beat female counter-protesters half his size who assembled to defend an Olympia Planned Parenthood and to prevent Patriot Prayer from harassing patients at the clinic.
He also threatened that if the FBI, the Portland City Government, and the media were to call the Proud Boys an extremist group then he would give them a reason.
Schultz made the comments in light of the FBI classifying the Proud Boys as an extremist group with ties to white nationalism.
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Rally attendees spoke in favor of "men as head of household". Neo-confederate Billy Sessions/Helton of the group called The Highwaymen said states had a right to stone gay people to death under the Constitution. Sessions attended Unite the Right in 2017.
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The current acting head of the Proud Boys is a former lawyer named Jason L. Van Dyke who openly threatened to hang black people on Twitter and threatened physical harm and lawsuits against journalists and critics.
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Van Dyke also most likely posted on the infamous white supremacist forum known as Stormfront.
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Here's a picture of Van Dyke threatening an anonymous Twitter user who exposed his activity on Stormfront, which jeopardized his employment prospects at the Victoria County prosecutor's office in Texas.
Rank and file Proud Boys often promote "white genocide"or incel memes. For example, the Seattle PB Dominic Lineing shared a "white genocide" meme related to Muslims and CA PB Dalton Duffield shared an incel meme which absurdly posited that gay men didn't exist before the 1970s.
At the Him Too Rally, @MrAndyNgo and Patriot Prayer staged confrontations with distraught young protesters like the pink haired woman in the photo below, who police charged with harassment. These confrontations act as propaganda for PP which obfuscates their record of violence.
The tall man in the yellow and white plaid shirt with the glasses and shaved head is named Tusitala John Toese (a.k.a. Tiny), who is a Patriot Prayer regular and a Proud Boy. Tiny has beaten up random people who dislike Trump and women and teenage boys half his size.
Here at an Olympia Planned Parenthood in February 2018 he punched and shoved a slim built protester defending the clinic from harassment by Patriot Prayer members. The protesters previously threw eggs at the group and therefore Patriot Prayer thought they deserved a beating.
Tiny also beat up a female anti-fascist a third of his size after Patriot Prayer members ganged up on her outnumbered group in an ally and she pepper sprayed one of the PP members in self-defense. Tiny wanted to continue the beating after the anti-fascists agreed to stand down.
One Patriot Prayer member gloated about how the female anti-fascist Tiny assaulted was a "weak 120 pound little bitch" and he threatened to "go apeshit" on her next time. PP and the Proud Boys thought anti-fascists allegedly slashing their car tires merited physical violence.
Tiny and his compatriot Donovan Flippo beat up a black teenager at the Vancouver Mall after he criticized their Trump flag. The county prosecutor later charged the teen with assault, although the county later dropped the charges.
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Vancouver activists who tried to organize a rally in support of the assaulted teenager had to cancel the event after receiving violent threats from far-right, free speech champions like the Proud Boys.
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Tiny assaulted a Portland man named Tim Ledwith without provocation while Patriot Prayer drove around the city, looking for anti-Trump pedestrians to fight.
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Although Tiny is not white, he enthusiastically assists white supremacists like New Hampshire American Guard member Josh Cameron. Here Tiny talks with Cameron about an upcoming Proud Boy rally in Rhode Island over video chat.
Tiny and Joey Gibson even fought alongside known American Guard Member Josh Cameron at a Providence, Rhode Island rally they organized. Gibson even acknowledged the Neo-Nazi elements within that organization when confronted by an interviewer.
Tiny also repeatedly punched a counter-protester in retaliation for him blowing a horn at the Providence demonstration.
Tiny even agreed to facilitate a legal defense fund for Patriot Prayer members and open white supremacists. White Nationalist and rapist Agustus Sol Invictus organized the defense fund and he provides legal aid. Unite the Right 2 Organizers praised Tiny as a useful token.
The legal defense fund likely refers to the American Legal Defense Fund established by Neo-Nazi lawyer Agustus Invictus to defend members of the violent Rise Above Movement arrested for the violence they committed in Charlottesville and in California.
Here's more information about the "American Legal Defense Fund", which operates out of southern California. Invictus can apparently practice law even though a former girl friend accused him of beating and raping her in 2017.
The Proud Boys' Legal Defense Fund Augustus promotes in support of the 9 Proud Boys arrested in NYC directly connects to Gavin McInnes, who allegedly stepped down from the organization.
Despite Patriot Prayer's association with the misogynistic and nativist Proud Boys, @MrAndyNgo portrays anti-fascists as inherently more violent, particularly on the day of the #HimToo rally. Portland Police only arrested 5 counter-protesters for non-violent offenses that day.
The Portland Police Bureau arrested a 68 year old anti-fascist and anti-rape activist named Betsy Toll. Officers charged her with "interfering with a peace officer" for not moving fast enough off a sidewalk hundreds of feet away from the Him Too assembly.
Regarding the greater context of domestic terrorism in the U.S., the Anti-Defamation League concluded that right-wing terror attacks accounted for 71 percent of total deaths from 2008-2017. @MrAndyNgo leaves this fact out of his "violent left" narrative.
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The right-libertarian Cato Institute even concluded that right-wing ideology resulted in the second highest proportion of deadly terror attacks during the period from 1992-2017 w/ the exception of radical Islamic attacks motivated by U.S. foreign policy.
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@MrAndyNgo should have the intellectual honesty to look beyond the trite patriotic rhetoric of Patriot Prayer and should not take anodyne press releases issued by Christian Fascist, nativist activists like @RealHaleyAdams and @JoeyRockstone at face value.
