{"id":34008,"date":"2018-10-15T13:16:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T20:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34008"},"modified":"2018-10-15T18:51:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T01:51:38","slug":"republicans-on-parade-10-15-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/republicans-on-parade-10-15-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade – 10\/15\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Here is the one hundred fortieth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honorees are the Republican white supremacist Proud Boys. They are so honored for their violent attack on a counter-protester outside the Metropolitan Republican Club in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1015proud-boys\"The Proud Boys took Manhattan Friday night, attending a lecture by their founder, Gavin McInnes, at the Metropolitan Republican Club of New York City.<\/p>\n

Following the event, the white nationalist group<\/a> took to the streets, brutally beating and kicking<\/a> several individuals while shouting \u201cfaggot\u201d and \u201ccocksucker,\u201d reportedly because one of them stole one of their MAGA hats. Fox News responded by only reporting on anti-fascist vandalism that had taken place at the venue, while continuing to portray Democrats as the real angry mobs.<\/p>\n

McInnes\u2019 lecture was about Otoya Yamaguchi, who himself was a member of an extremist right-wing group in Japan. In 1960, Yamaguchi stabbed Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma to death, and he has been celebrated as a hero of extreme nationalist groups.<\/p>\n

McInnes claimed on Instagram<\/a> that he would actually be \u201cre-enacting this inspiring moment\u201d at the event. That the Proud Boys were hyped to engage in violence of their own afterward appears to be no coincidence…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here’s a video clip<\/a> of this Republican assault and battery.<\/span><\/p>\n