A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland

  • 7 years ago
A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland
“Then you have the people who just want the right to be proud of their heritage” — people, he
said, who are standing up against “what appears to be an increasingly anti-white America.”
Mr. Hovater befriended Mr. Heimbach in February 2015 at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
“He really believed he was fighting for his people and doing what he thought was right.”
He said he wanted to see the United States become “an actually fair, meritocratic society.” Absent that, he would settle for a white ethno-state “where things are fair,
because there’s no competing demographics for government power or for resources.”
His fascist ideal, he said, would resemble the early days in the United States, when power was reserved
for landowners “and, you know, normies didn’t really have a whole hell of a lot to say.”
His faith in mainstream solutions slipped as he toured the country with one of the metal bands.
In an essay lamenting libertarianism’s leftward drift, he wrote: “At this rate I’m sure the presidential
candidate they’ll put up in a few cycles will be an overweight, black, crippled dyke with dyslexia.”
After he attended the Charlottesville rally, in which a white nationalist plowed his car into a group of left-wing protesters, killing one of them, Mr. Hovater wrote
that he was proud of the comrades who joined him there: “We made history.