{"id":37400,"date":"2019-08-18T10:38:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37400"},"modified":"2019-08-18T10:38:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T17:38:09","slug":"a-flash-in-the-pan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/18\/a-flash-in-the-pan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Flash in the Pan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The picture (see below) is of Republican Nazis demonstrating at the Willamette River Waterfront in downtown Portland.&nbsp; They were just a few blocks south from directly across the river from me.&nbsp; I indicated the location of the shiny new CatBox with a blue arrow.&nbsp; I could not see the, as trees blocked my view.&nbsp; That&#8217;s OK.&nbsp; Trees look better than Republicans do anyway.&nbsp; The demonstrators moved South and West, away from the river.&nbsp; After all the hype, it was a flash in the pan.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0818ProudBoys\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0818ProudBoys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/0818ProudBoys.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\">  <\/p>\n<p>Portland saw its largest far-right demonstration of the Trump era on Saturday, as 500 rightwingers traveled from around the country to march back and forth across the city\u2019s bridges, and briefly occupy a patch of its waterfront.  <\/p>\n<p>By making extensive accommodations for the unpermitted rightwing protest, including close police escorts, concrete barriers, and reopening a bridge to allow them to leave the downtown area, Portland authorities succeeded in preventing head-on confrontations between it and a <strong>much larger counter-protest<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p>The far right \u201cend domestic terrorism\u201d protest, organized by leaders in the \u201cwestern chauvinst\u201d Proud Boys fraternity, saw Trump supporters rub shoulders with more radical groups, including Three Percenters, a \u201cpatriot movement\u201d militia group, and American Guard, who the Anti-Defamation League described as \u201chardcore white supremacists\u201d&#8230;&nbsp; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/aug\/17\/portland-oregon-far-right-rally-proud-boys-antifa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s a video clip: <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gLHeJwRAur8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Right-Wing Groups, Anti-Fascist Protesters Swarm Downtown Portland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gLHeJwRAur8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It was the most peaceful protest Trump&#8217;s Nazi-Republican Proud Boys and Antifa, many of whom are Anarchist Nut-jobs, have ever had, thanks to good crowd management by the police. <\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture (see below) is of Republican Nazis demonstrating at the Willamette River Waterfront in downtown Portland.&nbsp; They were just a few blocks south from directly across the river from me.&nbsp; I indicated the location of the shiny new CatBox with a blue arrow.&nbsp; I could not see the, as trees blocked my view.&nbsp; That&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/18\/a-flash-in-the-pan\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}