The defendants in the federal civil lawsuit over the lethal 2017 Unite the Right riots in Charlottesville and their neo-Nazi cohorts were hoping to turn the trial currently unfolding in court into a kind of circus where they could strut their propaganda chops—and indeed they clearly have been conducting themselves both in and out of the courtroom accordingly. But to their dismay, the plaintiffs’ attorneys in the case have diligently, step by step, been peeling back the onion layers of the white nationalist movement’s planning and preparations for the event. Along the way, the defendants are also being exposed as the unrepentant hatemongers and violence-loving thugs they are. It hasn’t been a good couple of weeks for them. Read more