“Proud Boys, Stand Back and Stand By.”

Barry Dredze
4 min readOct 2, 2020

Now that the Trumps and a growing number of high-level Republicans have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, this seems like old news already. But yes, I will still pile on. Donald Trump is a fascist. He is a Proud Boy, an Oath Keeper, a Patriot Prayer guy, Three Percenter and all of it, because they are his blackshirts, his cossacks, his storm troopers.

Joe Biden showed up for a debate at a Fox News interview by Chris Wallace; and when Biden mentioned the Proud Boys while Wallace asked if the president would condemn white supremacy, Trump demurred…

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Barry Dredze

Just another mortal, tweaking my cognitive map on the fly.