How Real Is the New Far Right?

In Sacramento on Sunday, two white-supremacist groups, the Traditional Worker Party and the Golden State Skinheads, held a demonstration outside the California State Capitol “to make a statement about the precarious situation our race is in,” according to the Traditional Worker Web site. They meant the white race, not the Presidential one, but they cited as evidence the “brutal assaults” by protesters at Donald Trump rallies in California. The skinheads had gotten the right permits and advertised their demonstration long in advance, allowing local activist groups to organize a counterprotest, which was much larger than the rally itself. Many of the counterprotesters were there with a local “anti-Fascist” group called Antifa Sacramento. (One of the dark realizations of this event was that midsized American cities now have anti-Fascist organizations.) The counterprotesters carried signs that denounced “Nazi scum”; they chanted, “Nazi go home.” Just a few minutes after the white nationalists arrived, the two groups began fighting. “They attacked each other without hesitation,” one member of the counterprotest told the Los Angeles Times. “It was a war zone.”

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