The poor turnout underscores how the country's unpopular and disorganized extremist movements have been driven underground.
In semi-private, encrypted chats, neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists planned rallies in dozens of cities Sunday to promote their racist movements and spread their ideologies to larger audiences.
Hyped by organizers as events that would make “the whole world tremble,” the rallies ran into a major problem: Hardly anyone showed up.
The “White Lives Matter” rallies, the first major real-world organizing efforts by white supremacists since 2018, were planned on the encrypted app Telegram after many aligned groups were alleged to have taken part in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S Capitol.
The poor showing underscores how the country’s unpopular and disorganized extremist movements have been driven underground by increased scrutiny from the media, law enforcement agencies and far-left activists who infiltrate their private online spaces and disrupt their attempts to communicate and organize.
Back to where they were before trump and his supporters made it okay to be out in the open. Sorta like being non white, non christian, non male but easier to hide.
These hate filled people have been among us all along, nixon really got the ball rolling with his war on drugs, reagan got it to pick up speed with union busting and deregulation. The fox network business model, to gain viewer share, jumped in with both feet when the Fairness Doctrine was done away with and it all culminated with trump being placed in the WH.