Thursday at the Metropolitan Republican Club on East 83rd Street was a quiet riot; coming not long after the loud riots occasioned by Proud Boys, who were invited by Ian Reilly of the Executive Committee. Reilly was there trying to get people to make him president. And he has lot of new members who appear to be poised to take over.
Which does not sit well with a lot of the old members; most of whom wanted nothing to do with Proud Boys and their rants. Many consider Proud Boys a bunch of stupid, racist thugs. Antifa showed up after their event and not to blame either side, things happened, like broken windows, assaults, and arrests. Nobody went home bored.
Mr Reilly is promising to keep things lively, while his opposition is trying to keep things on an even keel. They have seen enough of Milo (the Brit who espouses sexual relationships between adults and people under the legal age of consent), Sebastian Gorka (whose ties to nazi groups in Hungary, the New Right, along with his arrest for trying to subvert US Homeland Security by getting on a plane with a loaded gun) and others associated with this new upshot right wing.
Before the election Richard Spencer was trying to get his way in too, his neo-nazi sadist friends in London unwittingly tried to get him an entree to the Trump circles, via a person they did not know was actually an undercover reporter. Oops!
Spencer was spurned. Jason, his Iranian mate, was also spurned. Now Proud Boys is knocking at the door.
I did not mention what the theme of Thursday night's event was - ironically it was a talk by Iraq War veteran and activist Rob Smith, whose talk was marred by the presence of Reilly. It looked like black men on one side and the nazi youth party on the other with lots of bewildered older peoplein the middle just trying to get to the bar.
The vote on this is set for 29 January, and I expect that the old management will win again. Sorry, Reilly, but your past antics and your associations are not appropriate for America 2019. They went out of style in Germany in 1945.
The GOP, and the Trump supporters - many of whom are not actually GOP as journalists assume they all are - want nothing to do with Proud Boys, NAMBLA, or other trash; and word is that you got two people to join the club to pad the votes who are under indictment for narcotics.
The nazis had their share of fetishist young ambitious adherents. These kind were probably shunned by the left, Milo for instance, so by default they are trying the GOP. They need to understand that they are of no use to anyone, but rather a liability to whatever side lets them in.
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