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Members of the Proud Boys, who have engaged in political violence, at a rally in Portland, Ore., in September.Credit.Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi for The New York Times
To the Editor:
It appears that the love affair between the Proud Boys and Donald Trump is done. They’re over him. Mr. Trump betrayed the Proud Boys by denouncing their violent attack on the Capitol after he had encouraged them. And he failed to issue any pardons to them for their attempted insurrection.
The Proud Boys should have known better. Mr. Trump has a long history of tossing loyalists under the Trump bus once they’re no longer useful to him. At least the Proud Boys finally see him for what he is and has always been in their own words, an “extraordinarily weak” man.