2022-09-26 14:46:42

"We Are Proud Boys": Far-Right Gang Normalized Political Violence, Embraced by GOP

As the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection is set to hold its first fall public hearing, we look at one of the key groups that helped plan and carry out the attack as part of their goal to normalize political violence, with HuffPost journalist Andy Campbell, author of the new book, "We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered In a New Era of America." He says, "They've been on a parade of violence at the behest of Trump and the GOP for six years now." Campbell recently obtained a document that gives rare insight into how the Proud Boys "meticulously" plan their rallies and how they were going to carry out a march in New York City on January 10. He says GOP rhetoric, parroted by the right-wing media, is normalizing the political violence committed by the Proud Boys and, in effect, "sanitizing them for the rest of the country."

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