Marsha Blackburn and the Proud Boys

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"There’s an old punk canard that if you walk into a venue where Nazis are hanging out and no one minds, you are in a Nazi venue. There’s also the one that goes, “What do you call it when you sit down at a table with nine Nazis? Ten Nazis.”

Same holds true for the Proud Boys. If you’re at a rally where Proud Boys are a welcome and unchallenged part of the audience, then you are at a rally where Proud Boys are welcome. So, if you headed down to The Daily Wire’s “Rally to End Child Mutilation” on Friday, and you stood in the crowd next to Proud Boys, congratulations. You have picked a side.

The same goes for all the politicians who showed up there. In their coverage of Friday's event, the Scene’s Hannah Herner and Matt Masters identified state Sen. Jack Johnson, state House Majority Leader William Lamberth, state Sen. Dawn White, state Sen. Ed Jackson and state Sen. Janice Bowling, as well as U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, all at this rally with Proud Boys in attendance. I could not find any reporting that any of these politicians denounced the Proud Boys or refused to speak until they left.

Just to be clear, you can be a member of a group that organized “Unite the Right” with a whole bevy of white supremacists, a group that helped organize and participate in the Jan. 6 insurrection, a group that coalesced in the first place around a man with criminally ridiculous facial hair, and you can show up at a political rally in Nashville, and the most powerful Republicans in the state will be all, “Hey, cool, I’ll go talk to that crowd.”....(more)