Less than a year after its deadly rally in Charlottesville, the American alt-right is splintering in dramatic fashion as its leaders turn on each other or quit altogether.
By Kelly Weill
Some have turned federal informant. Others are facing prison time. More are named in looming lawsuits. All of them are fighting.
Last summer, the American alt-right was presenting itself as a threatening, unified front, gaining national attention with a deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The collection of far-right and white nationalist groups proclaimed
victory after President Donald Trump hesitated to directly condemn them
and instead blamed “both sides”
and the “alt left” for the violence. But less than a year after
Charlottesville, the alt-right is splintering in dramatic fashion as its
leaders turn on each other or quit altogether.
Matthew Heimbach’s arrest in a March trailer park brawl
with members of his neo-Nazi group—some of whom he was allegedly
screwing—felt like a too-obvious metaphor. Heimbach was the head of the
Traditionalist Worker Party, a youth-focused white supremacist group
that floated to the front of media coverage and hate rallies in the
run-up to Donald Trump’s election.
But by March, Heimbach and the
TWP had spent the previous months embroiled in a series of online spats
with other alt-right factions. On March 14, police in his Indiana
hometown arrested Heimbach after he allegedly assaulted TWP spokesperson
Matthew Parrott during a fight over their wives, both of whom Heimbach
was allegedly sleeping with. Heimbach’s wife is Parrott’s stepdaughter.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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