Posted on 11/18/2017 8:56:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
One in a series of occasional articles examining how President Trump’s ascendance and early moves have altered expectations and reality. This story is the second of three gauging those effects in one Pennsylvania county.
]Chad Eisenhart glanced at the image on his phone: a white, beefy face, partially obscured by ski goggles. The man wore a military-style helmet, backpack, and white polo shirt and was marching in loose formation with other men in helmets.
Charlottesville, Eisenhart quickly realized.
He looked closer with growing unease. The marcher looked familiar, like one of Eisenhart’s employees at Carryout Courier, a small business that shuttles pizza and hot food to the residential doorsteps of York.
Eisenhart’s social media manager, who sent the photo, had included a message: “Is our driver Bob a [expletive] Nazi?”
The hundreds of marchers at the violent white supremacist rallies in Virginia on Aug. 11 and 12 had to converge from somewhere. The racism and hate on display did not just spring from the earth in Charlottesville; it festered in communities across the country, encouraged, many believe, by the white identity politics and nativism of the 2016 campaign of President Trump.
York, it turns out, was one of those places.
It is a community with a diverse but divided population, where the local vocational high school boiled with racial anguish after Donald Trump’s election the previous November. It is not uncommon for trucks in the York County countryside to sport Confederate flags along with Trump campaign stickers.
But until that August Monday morning, the news of the hateful violence over the previous weekend in Charlottesville had seemed well removed from the small city in southern Pennsylvania.
It certainly seemed far removed from Carryout Courier and its 55 employees, and from Eisenhart’s own experience as a father, husband,
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
The left never gets tired of that “Trump is a Nazi” lie.
“Given his emerging far right views, some friends were surprised when he supported Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign in 2015.”
Based Pizza Man.
One nutty Nazi and this writer goes berserk. Wait until he actually meets 3 of them. It’s heart attackville for him, for sure.
He should sit through at Nazi/Klan rally like I did (just a young Jewish kid fresh off of a year’s undercover work for the FBI and Congress). It was an education something these ahole liberal writers will never get or understand.
The Charlotte riots were caused mainly by the Marxist protestors who outnumbered the Nazis/KKK and other weirdos 10 to 1. If you saw the Left’s signs, you would know who they really were, not just a bunch of pink panty liberals.
I hate damned amateur writers.
...making it the shooting / murder capital of Pennsylvania Dutch Country. That's the lead story on the WGAL (Channel 8) evening news more often than not.
Don't let this hack fool you into thinking that York would be one big happy Benneton commercial set in the Pepperidge Farm dining room, if not for being ruined in the last year by Trump and "white supremacists".
The article provides a step by step guide for fascists to terrorize a business owner who dares to stand behind a guy who dares to attend a 1A event. “Nice business you got there, it’d be a shame if we had to continue destroying it...”
What if comrade Matt Viser really is a communist?
Given his emerging far right views, some friends were surprised when he supported Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign in 2015. During the Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore during April 2015, friends recall him going and delivering pizza to police officers for free.
“It was just so weird. Bob was right there feeling the Bern. If you talked to him, he was talking all about Bernie Sanders,” Mason said. “He even seemed to like and support the Black Lives Matter movement.”
“But then he did a complete 180,” he added. “It was like a switch flipped.”
Or far left “street theater” where some dupes played the role of “rent-a-nazi” in golf shirts carrying nazi-esque(???) tiki-torches.
>>Martin took his Internet activity underground, posting under various pseudonyms until being banned and switching to another... In late July, a Facebook group called Preserve History banned Ruprecht Martinus for injecting racist comments into a debate over preserving Confederate monuments... In the leadup to the Charlottesville protest, again using a pseudonym, Stannis the Mannis, he became active on a message board where planning for the rally was taking place. He said that he would be armed (“I don’t go to the grocery store unarmed let alone this lol,” he wrote). He posted images of a shield he would bring, painted with a grinning skull that is the symbol of a comic-book character, The Punisher. He passed along advice for how to handle pepper spray in the eyes and advised participants to wear an athletic cup.
Agent provocateur.
It looks to me like the Nazi Boston Globe continuing its oppression of lower middle class white men.
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