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These Nazis just want to be your neighbors
From the article:
TONY HOVATER could be a case study for "The Banality of Evil: 2017 Hipster Edition."
At least, that's how reporter Richard Fausset seemed bound and determined to portray him in a recent New York Times profile of the neo-Nazi.
After it was published, Fausset's piece caused a huge outcry. It's pretty easy to see why.
Fausset spends much of the profile "humanizing" Hovater and his wife, presenting them as a perfectly normal couple...except, oh yeah, for the fact that Hovater's a Hitler-loving neo-Nazi who in 2015 co-founded the Traditionalist Worker Party.
At least, that's how reporter Richard Fausset seemed bound and determined to portray him in a recent New York Times profile of the neo-Nazi.
After it was published, Fausset's piece caused a huge outcry. It's pretty easy to see why.
Fausset spends much of the profile "humanizing" Hovater and his wife, presenting them as a perfectly normal couple...except, oh yeah, for the fact that Hovater's a Hitler-loving neo-Nazi who in 2015 co-founded the Traditionalist Worker Party.
To read more:
https://socialistworker.org/2017/12/05/these-nazis-just-want-to-be-your-neighbors
In the age of Trump, misogyny is considered to be normal behavior, as is pedophilia, so the fact that Nazis and KKK members are also all a part of the Trump coalition should come as no surprise.
A tradition of tolerating hate groups in the manner of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, 2 earlier GOP Presidents who courted hate groups.