![]() ![]() He dreams of a violent insurrection.īut where Rockwell and Pierce relied on pamphlets, the radio, newsletters, and in-person organizing to advance their aims, Anglin has the internet. Anglin admires these predecessors, who saw themselves as revolutionaries at the vanguard of a movement to take back the country. That Anglin, a 33-year-old college dropout, could unleash such mayhem-Whitefish’s police chief, Bill Dial, likened it to “domestic terrorism”-was a sign of just how emboldened the alt-right had become.Īnglin is an ideological descendant of men such as George Lincoln Rockwell, who created the American Nazi Party in the late 1950s, and William Luther Pierce, who founded the National Alliance, a powerful white-nationalist group, in the 1970s. “I have never been so scared in my entire life,” she later told me. Gersh came home one night to find her husband sitting at home in the dark, suitcases on the floor, wondering whether they should flee. A single harasser called Judah’s office more than 500 times in three days, according to the Whitefish police. Over the next week, the Stormers besieged Whitefish businesses, human-rights groups, city-council members-anyone potentially connected to the targets. “You fucking wicked kike whore,” Andrew Auernheimer, The Daily Stormer’s webmaster, said in a voicemail for Gersh. “Put your uppity slut wife Tanya back in her cage, you rat-faced kike,” another wrote to Judah. “All of you deserve a bullet through your skull,” one Stormer said in an email. He commanded his readers-his “Stormer Troll Army”-to “hit ’em up.” He plastered their photographs with yellow stars emblazoned with jude and posted a picture of the Gershes’ 12-year-old son superimposed on the gates at Auschwitz. ![]() It was in this spirit that Anglin “doxed” Gersh and her husband, Judah, as well as other Jews in Whitefish, by publishing their contact information and other personal details on his website. (Dan Chung / Southern Poverty Law Center) Tanya Gersh was the target of a months-long campaign of harassment instigated by Andrew Anglin on The Daily Stormer. Anglin declared it a “historic” occasion, a step toward greater unity on the extreme right. But Spencer and Anglin had appeared together on a podcast the day before Sherry’s Medium post was published and expressed their mutual admiration. Anglin prefers the gutter, reveling in the vile language common on the worst internet message boards. ![]() Spencer, who fancies himself white nationalism’s leading intellectual, cloaks his racism in highbrow arguments. (Sherry Spencer did not respond to a request for comment.)Īt the time, Richard Spencer and Andrew Anglin barely knew each other. But Sherry claimed that Gersh had issued “terrible threats,” and she wrote a post on Medium on December 15 accusing her of an attempted shakedown. According to Gersh, Sherry sought her advice, and Gersh suggested that she sell the property, make a donation to charity, and denounce her son’s white-nationalist views. In response, some Whitefish residents considered protesting in front of a commercial building Sherry owned in town. But he gained international notoriety just after the 2016 election for giving a speech in Washington, D.C., in which he declared “Hail Trump!,” prompting Nazi salutes from his audience. The Spencers had long-standing ties to Whitefish, and Richard had been based there for years. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. ![]()
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