Earlier this month in Gainesville, Florida, an estimated 2,500 people protested a speech by the white nationalist Richard Spencer at the University of Florida. Elaborate security measures were not enough to prevent an act of violence that left three white supremacists charged with attempted homicide. In Charlottesville, the largest white nationalist rally in decades sparked open fighting in the streets, with neo-Nazis wearing helmets and shields clashing with counter-protesters and being doused with bottles of urine. “We’re not going to back down and be content to be closeted,” one Tennessee organizer wrote on the white nationalist blog Occidental Dissent earlier this month. That event brought together about 150 neo-Nazis and white supremacists, many of them armed, as well as more than 100 anti-fascist protesters, in a small town where residents voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump.

Source: The Guardian October 28, 2017 14:26 UTC