Another oust-worthy Free Stater was Chris Cantwell, who earned a national reputation for his role in the infamous 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, during which white nationalist demonstrators marched with tiki torches, chanted hateful messages about Jewish people, assaulted people, and, in one case, drove a car into a crowd of counterprotesters and killed one of them. Cantwell was dubbed the “Crying Nazi,” because he wept after he drew criminal charges for assaulting demonstrators with pepper gas.
