Cashing in on the Rise of the “Alt Right” – Mother Jones

Cashing in on the Rise of the “Alt Right” – Mother Jones

PATHETIC! DISGUSTING! 

Kyle Chapman (who has a felony criminal record and spent a total of 10 years in prison until 2014) rose from obscurity in early March after being captured in a video at a pro-Trump rally in Berkeley, California, smashing an anti-fascist (a.k.a. antifa) counterprotester over the head with a curtain rod. He was arrested later that day on suspicion of assault. Since then, he has been arrested twice more in Berkeley on suspicion of assaulting people during street protests but has not been charged with a crime. In the same period, Chapman launched his own website and line of apparel, and started an aspiring militia group called the Fraternal Order of the Alt-Knights. Indeed, Chapman has sought to parlay skull cracking into something of a brand.