When College Republicans Unite With The Alt-Right, What Could Go Wrong?

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1/08/20 7:00pm
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When College Republicans Unite With The Alt-Right, What Could Go Wrong?
What could go wrong? Well, everything. A case study from the University of Washington.


https://crooksandliars.com/2020/01/when-college-republicans-unite-alt-right

By David Neiwert




When College Republicans Unite With The Alt-Right, What Could Go Wrong? Image from: Dave Neiwert

Between the Inauguration Day riot and the affirmative-action bake sale, there has been nothing ordinary about the University of Washington’s College Republicans chapter for the past three years. Under the direction of Chevy Swanson, the chapter president elected in fall of 2016, the organization had sponsored a range of activities—two of which became near-riots, the first of which included a near-fatal shooting—that created public-safety issues and inflamed outrage, while alt-right activists and white nationalists swirled around the pugnacious scene it created on the UW campus.

It all finally came to a head this fall when the school’s administration announced it had withdrawn recognition of the group and was shifting its affiliation to a new group, called the Husky College Republicans, headed by Swanson’s onetime rival for the chapter presidency.

That should have ended the matter. However, as things turned out, that was just the start of the problems for Swanson and his former cohorts, now embroiled in a court case arising from threats Swanson made online.

UW’s experience with an unusually alt-right-friendly “College Republicans” chapter somewhat mirrors that of the chapter on the other side of the state at Washington State University in Pullman. There, the leadership of white nationalist James Allsup, who participated in the deadly Aug. 12, 2017, “Unite the Right” rally in Charlotteville, Virginia, created an uproar both before and after he was forced out, and later stripped of credentials within a Spokane County GOP committee.

Other campuses around the country are encountering similar turmoil within the ranks of their local Republican activists. At the University of Maine, for example, the campus College Republicans chapter was left in limbo after their official advisor resigned suddenly in the wake of the group’s decision to invite Michelle Malkin to speak on campus—a protest of Malkin’s recent embrace of the white-nationalist alt-right in the growing internecine battle between more establishment conservatives and far-right “Groypers.”

Campus conservatives have been splitting into pro-Trump and establishment factions for a while now, but the emergence of the alt-right faction as a campus phenomenon has intensified over the past year. In the case of UW’s College Republicans, moreover, the rising influence of the alt-right has created problems since the Trump election.


On the day of Trump’s inauguration—January 20, 2017—the chapter hosted a speaking event by alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos at UW’s Kane Hall that attracted a large crowd of protesters who clashed violently with attendees. Before the night was over, a Milo fan had shot and nearly killed an antifascist trying to prevent her husband from using pepper spray on the crowd.....................

[CurtEastPoint]

1. ewww... the dweeb on the left has Eric Dump teeth. Nasty

[Initech]

2. TPUSA is a hostile organization, they are not to be trusted.

Same with groups like Identity Europa, I can't believe there's any sane school out there that would allow this shit.