Reuters: Proud Boys Are Rebuilding To Support Trump

June 3, 2024 Extremists, Trump cultists

Reuters reports:

A dark SUV cruised past former President Donald Trump’s supporters near his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey on a windy April afternoon. Billowing from the vehicles were three flags: one for the Trump campaign, two others with the initials “PB” – the insignia of the far-right Proud Boys movement.

Through the open windows, three Proud Boys flashed the “OK” sign with their hands, a gesture often associated with white supremacy and the far right. Trump’s fans cheered. Four men dressed in the signature black-and-yellow shirts of the Proud Boys spilled out of the SUV and began glad-handing the crowd like homecoming heroes.

The Proud Boys are back. Four years after the failed effort to overturn Trump’s 2020 electoral defeat, the violent all-male extremist group that led the storming of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, is rebuilding and regaining strength as Trump campaigns to return to the White House, according to interviews with eight Proud Boys, two U.S. law enforcement officials and four experts who track the group’s online activity.

Read the full article. It’s quite the deep dive. No paywall.

Note: The “POYB” seen in the brass knuckles in the screenshot above stands for “Proud Of Your Boy,” which is the title of the song from which the Proud Boys take their name.

Originally intended for Disney’s 1992 animated film Aladdin, the song gained popularly after its later release in a compilation album and in 2011 was added to the stage version of Aladdin, where it is now considered the production’s signature song.

Lyrics for “Proud Of Your Boy” were penned by the legendary gay playwright Howard Ashman, who died of AIDS in 1991. The supreme irony of the origin of their name is apparently lost on the viciously anti-LGBTQ Proud Boys.



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