Founder of the neo-Nazi “Daily Stormer” website Andrew Anglin said that President Donald Trump’s “stand by” remark to the Proud Boys was a clear call to arms, writing on the site that the President’s debate comment to the far-right hate group “gave me shivers.”
“Proud Boys, stand back and stand by,” Trump said on the debate stage in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday, refusing to condemn white supremacy in a comment that has since been widely criticized as a signal to incite violence among a group that has openly endorsed it.
“He didn’t condemn anyone, and he didn’t tell them to stand down – he told them to stand back and to stand by,” Anglin wrote on the website, which openly spreads anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi messages while glorifying white nationalism.
Prominent Senate Republicans pushed back on the President on Wednesday, at times carefully avoiding addressing him by name. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called it “unacceptable not to condemn white supremacists,” without naming Trump directly. Meanwhile, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the president should “make it clear Proud Boys is a racist organization antithetical to American ideals.”
But the remark was welcomed with celebratory cheers on the Proud Boys’ social media channels and sparked a wave of new recruits to a group that the Anti-Defamation League has called “Misogynistic, Islamophobic, transphobic and anti-immigration.”
While some Republicans called Trump’s remarks a “gaffe” — and suggested that the President had no intentions to incite violence — Anglin’s commentary appeared to confirm some of the fears voiced by commentators on Wednesday that Trump’s comments could be a sort of dog whistle to white supremacists.
Anglin said the remark could be interpreted as “wait until I give the signal.”
“I got shivers. I still have shivers,” Anglin wrote. “He is telling the people to stand by. As in: get ready for war.”
Later on Wednesday, amid calls to correct his statement, President Trump turned down another opportunity to condemn violent far-right groups like the Proud Boys claiming — in spite of naming them directly just a day before — that he’d never heard of them.
Hair Führer is mustering his jack-booted troops.
Be interesting to see how many independents split for Biden after hearing this.
“War,” is it? Something tells me this is gonna be a really short, really stupid “war,” in which all these bubble-headed cast-offs waddle down toward 7-11 in their tactical undies and their Proud Boy regalia hoping to find Antifa hiding behind the Funyuns. Let’s just hope they’re the only ones who get hurt when they try it and end up arrested.
But hey, surely the president can tell them not to do that. Right?
Get on up
Get on down
Get outta town (DC, that is…)
If you venn-diagrammed these types and QAnon wackos you would find it’s an area of almost 100% overlap.
They don’t need to wait for Mango Mussolini’s nod now – Q will get 'em the daily password from him.