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.
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.
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...
Sometimes history does more than just rhyme
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...
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.
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.
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...
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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