Racist Wingnut Harmonic Convergence

Many of you will remember this. Back in 2013 there was a disruption at a CPAC panel on race. Not surprisingly, the panel topic was a version of ‘the Democrats are the real racists.’ The actual panel was entitled “Trump The Race Card: Are You Sick And Tired Of Being Called A Racist When You Know You’re Not One?” But there was a sort of audience revolt in which attendees got up and started saying, ‘No, wait, we’re the racists.’ It basically went downhill from there. Here’s Benjy Sarlin’s write up from 2013 (he was there in the audience as it happened.) One of the ringleaders was a guy named Matthew Heimbach. And he’s now one of the guys who’s attacking black protestors at Trump rallies. Specifically, he was the one attacking that woman at the event Tuesday in Kentucky.