Thread by @RespectableLaw

THREAD: If you are one of these hand-wringing intellectuals who believe Gavin McInnes' attempts to distance the Proud Boys from Unite the Right, Richard Spencer, VDARE, etc., was based on ideology rather than aesthetics and strategy, then you are a sucker.

https://twitter.com/lwoodhouse/status/1311717118077923328

Gavin McInnes, a smart man, understood that a successful American white supremacist organization cannot have an all-white membership and cannot be overt about being a white supremacist organization. It sure as hell can't march around chanting blood and soil.

So like a lot of white nationalists in the wake of Heather Heyer's death, McInnes dressed up his bigotry in the fancy clothes of "Western Chauvinism." For example, McInnes said:

Then, in a tale as old as racism itself, he recruited some minority members who could see benefit from appeasing white chauvinists and gaining status within that system.

https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/1311810180821118976

But the truth is that Gavin and the Proud Boys fight for the White Christian way of life with all its attendant white supremacy and bigotry. From a Vox article today:

And this parlor game works because liberal pundits happily play along with this song and dance. "Exhibit A" is the Vox editor who compiled the research of McInnes' white supremacy in my previous tweet, who said this today:

https://twitter.com/cjane87/status/1311324303040942080