This may have been posted a while back in the US Politics thread, I don't know. But it's especially relevant here and a fascinating profile, in a sort of macabre way. Outstanding writer, too.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...-kampf/524505/
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Originally Posted by Richard Spencer
“The fact that they are excusing violence against Richard Spencer inherently means that they believe that there’s a state of exception, where we can use violence,” he said. “I think they’re actually kind of right.”
“War is politics by other means and politics is war by other means,” he said. “We don’t all want the same thing. And that’s why I think there is a kind of state of war going on.”
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