The Maelstrom of Violence

[David Horn]

(08-16-2017, 08:56 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: There is substantially bigger money around - on both sides - but it is not going to the neoconfederates (white nationalists, whatever you want to call them) in this protest.  Between the two sides at Charlottesville, the Antifa has direct connections to elites, the neoconfederates do not.

That's similar to the argument made for the RW in the 1950s: fringe and unimportant.  Well, a lot of those same groups, or their direct offshoots, are still out there today.  That's not possible without backing in a big way, and old money tends to be far right.  Just look at the political funding by the Mellon-Scaife family, as a prime example.  These are low profile, very wealthy people with distorted views of their rights and yours.  I would call them American aristocrats, but they lack even the basic noblese oblige that goes with the title.