coming up to him and taking selfies and, you know, being, like, one of them was like that s the coolest guy. and flashing his journal at him. yeah, not his journal, he picks up out of his bag a t-shirt with the name of richard spencer s white supremacist journal like flashing it at him like he just had this on him, he didn t know richard spencer was going to be there. let s be clear. this is the crowd that the president of the united states addressed today. those are the same people that the president of the united states addressed today. right. and here are i mean, i m not using white nationalist here as a slur, that s how they would describe themselves. their goal is a white ethnostate in america and that was even though cpac cpac is in a weird position because they re riding this energy, they obviously want to celebrate their republican president. at the same time, they want to distance themselves from the alt-right so they ve created an alternative history of the alt-
blatantly racist, anti-semitic rhetoric, people who deny the holocaust happened, people who praise adolf hitler, people who want the white ethnostate so, they re hide beg hind the cloak of free speech, which they have constitutionally, but they re making it sound as if that s their only cause. that s like confederates making the civil war about states rights in the abstract conveniently ignoring the fact the state s right they were fighting for was the right to own other human beings. it s a smokescreen first of all we need to understand on that side. arnaud, given that, you know, you are a former skin head and author of the book my life after hate, and you re on the phone with us now, is that your interpretation or best understanding of what this boston free speech coalition is all about? it describes itself as a coalition of libertarians, progressives, conservatives, and independents. this boston free speech coalition is the one that is