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Correct. Brimelow's purchase of a castle in W.Va. using not-for-profit money was illegal under New York law (where VDare's group was founded).

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FBkenwhite.bsky.social

As VDARE shuts down, I remember the time that they sent me an unsolicited communication, I responded inviting them to die slowly of cancer, and they wrote a whole post about how terrible, terrible that was.

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SCsethcotlar.bsky.social

I've interviewed one of those GLRockwell fans. You'll never guess what he did for a living after he got out of the fascist activist business in the late 1960s. He worked as an HR professional for a major US corporation for multiple decades.

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SCsethcotlar.bsky.social

It's likely that many of those menacing messages and antisemitic acts of vandalism in the early 1960s were committed by some of Huss's followers, like these two young fans of George Lincoln Rockwell who were also proteges of Huss and his fascist circle. sethcotlar.substack.com/p/speaking-a...

Speaking at Reed College in 1965, a Portland Nazi floated the idea of building a barbed-wire topped wall along the entire Mexican border. The audience erupted in dismissive laughter. Not so funny now.
Speaking at Reed College in 1965, a Portland Nazi floated the idea of building a barbed-wire topped wall along the entire Mexican border. The audience erupted in dismissive laughter. Not so funny now.

Sometimes history does more than just rhyme

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SCsethcotlar.bsky.social

Walter Huss came by his use of racist menace honestly in that he had been a Silver Shirt in the 1930s and had ties to a range of violent right wing extremists from the Minutemen in the 60s to the Posse Comitatus of the 70s to the Patriot Militias of the 90s. sethcotlar.substack.com/p/silver-shi...

"Silver Shirts for Reagan!": Walter Huss and the American "conservative" tradition with roots in 1930s-era fascism
"Silver Shirts for Reagan!": Walter Huss and the American "conservative" tradition with roots in 1930s-era fascism

The political world view of Walter Huss (1918-2006) was formed by the pro-Hitler, fascist organizations that flourished in late 1930s Portland...here's why that matters.

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SCsethcotlar.bsky.social

What got me thinking about this was the uptick in Trump and Vance's violent, racist rhetoric around the issue of immigration that has incited a wave of death threats and other acts of intimidation across the country. It all feels genealogically connected to the history of the Klan & US fascism.

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SCsethcotlar.bsky.social

In 1987, the former chair of the Oregon GOP sent a racist and menacing letter to the home of the first Black woman to serve in the state legislature, Margaret Carter. He accused her of being a racist and a Communist for opposing apartheid in South Africa. sethcotlar.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

The Art of the Racist Troll, ca. 1987
The Art of the Racist Troll, ca. 1987

In 1987 Oregon Republicans upbraided a former party leader (Walter Huss) for acting like a shameless, racist troll. Those were the days, eh?

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