The Far Right’s Plans for the G.O.P. Convention

On Sunday, while video of a few dozen skinheads and white nationalists brawling with “anti-Fascist” protesters in Sacramento was cycling on CNN, Matthew Heimbach was watching his comrades online from his home, in Indiana. The white nationalists represented a California chapter of the Traditionalist Worker Party, a small, extreme right-wing group that Heimbach founded last year. At twenty-five, he is an entrepreneurial zealot who has tried to bring skinheads and racial theorists together in a spirit that he calls “boots and suits.” The Southern Poverty Law Center calls him “this generation’s David Duke.” In the California melee, at least seven people were stabbed; nine were hospitalized. Afterward, Heimbach told me his members were defending themselves against opponents. “More of them ended up going to the hospital than us,” he said, adding, “but it really is tragic that that had to happen in the first place.”

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