![]() Few back in 2016 realized how far the group would go-soon establishing chapters in 45 states, with members eventually indicted on charges ranging from civil disorder to conspiracy in the Washington, D.C., rampage. We’ll just walk into the White House.” They began chanting “USA! USA! USA!” the same way the Proud Boys would when breaching the Capitol complex in January. ![]() “If Donnie wins,” he bellowed into a distorting microphone, the Proud Boys will “own America. But as someone who’d always predicted trends, he could see where this would lead. McInnes had just created his gang months before. “Tonight we either take back the country or we lose the country to the establishment,” he told the attendees, a mixture of Trumpist trolls, frat bros, and the sort of amped-up nationalist types who call themselves “Western chauvinists.” That November evening, Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes-my former boss-summoned his followers to the Gaslight Lounge in New York’s Meatpacking District to watch the returns. O n election night in 2016, four years before the January 6 storming of the U.S.
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