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From Reveal, the blog of The Center for Investigative Reporting: [revealnews.org]

In a late-night YouTube video, Richard Spencer, the de facto leader of the alt-right movement, announced he’s abandoning his shambolic tour of American college campuses.

“I really hate to say this,” Spencer says, “antifa is winning.”

The announcement came after a string of college talks by Spencer at which he was heckled, booed and, in some cases, physically threatened by black-clad protesters affiliated with the antifa, or anti-fascist, movement.

“When (these events) become violent clashes and pitched battles, they aren’t fun,” Spencer says in the video.

He originally planned his college tour as a way to go into the “belly of the beast,” he said, and confront “Marxist” education at its heart. For a while, Spencer was able to make these appearances without violent opposition.

“What changed was Charlottesville,” he says in the video.

And it gets worse, much worse!

In addition to Spencer’s announcement, neo-Nazi troll Andrew Anglin also noted on his website that the current fascist movement in America is a bit of a joke:

We are in no way ready to “take to the streets.” We have absolutely zero infrastructure. We do not have a huge pool of reliable, competent people. We do not have any stable organizations, we do not have developed communities, we do not have allies in the government or military, we do not have allies in academia, entertainment or media, we do not have a legal team. We do not really have much of anything at all.

Capping off the fascist meltdown triumvirate was the news we noted last week that the white nationalist Traditionalist Workers Party has collapsed following a bizarre “love square” (is that a thing?) between the party’s leader and its spokesman, his wife and his stepdaughter.

Reminds one of the film, The Music Man [youtube.com]
♪♫

There was nothing all around
But I never heard it whinging
No I never heard it at all
Till there was you

♪♫

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