how would you characterize the boogaloo movement? broad, antigovernment in all forms and fashions more than anything else. the boogaloo boys are pro gun but unlike many right leaning militias they don t sympathize with trump or the republican party. they re libertarian and anti-police with no leaders or central organization. i want to understand what drew magnus to the movement and why he feels we ve reached a point of no return. so tell me a little bit about your upbringing. my family are all kind of like hippies sort of. so i grew up in the middle of nowhere, northern michigan, population 300 town. very isolated. what were some of the things that really made an impact on you after you left your bubble? definitely living in detroit and just kind of seeing, like, the idea of what america is supposed to be kind of doesn t exist there. there are abandoned buildings, the infrastructure destroyed but we have a state income tax and pay a lot of money.
his living room and making a modest living selling them at festivals. today you d be more likely to find him painting this. magnus identifies as a boogaloo boy part of a group that emerged two years ago in online forums. it began as a bunch of memes. a play on the name of a break dancing movie. which morphed into civil war 2 and then simply boogaloo as a term for impending war in america. a shared internet culture then jumped into a real life paramilitary movement complete with its own wardrobe of hawaiian shirts, big igloo symbols, and, yes, semiautomatic weapons. how would you characterize the boogaloo movement? broad, antigovernment in all forms and fashions more than anything else. the boogaloo boys are pro gun but unlike many right leaning militias they don t sympathize with trump or the republican
boy, part of a group that emerged two years ago in online forums. it began as a bunch of memes. a play on the name of a breakdancing movie. electric boogaloo which morphed into world war ii, and then simply boogaloo as a term for an impending war in america. a shared internet culture then jumped into a real-life paramilitary movement, complete with its own wardrobe of hawaiian shirts, big igloo symbols, and, yes, semiautomatic weapons. so how would you character the boogaloo movement? broad anti-government in all forms and fashions more than anything else. the boogaloo boys are pro-gun, but unlike many right-leaning militias, they don t sympathize with trump or the republican party. they re libertarian and anti-police with no leaders or central organization. i want to understand what drew magnus to the movement and why he feels we ve reached a point of no return.