BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

The street clashes between left and right in Berkeley were orchestrated by Steven Bannon as an Italian-style "strategy of tension" but they got out of hand, culminating in Charlottesville and Bannon's ouster a few days later (ostensibly for contradicting Trump on North Korea, but that wasn't the real reason).

This goes back to 2016 when Milo Yiannopolous met privately in Dallas with Richard Spencer at a conference for members of TRS, a neo-Nazi web forum which organizes IRL meetup groups. This was not known about until much later when a video of Milo singing America, The Beautiful at an after-party at a bar full of seig heiling white nationalists near White Rock Lake appeared on Buzzfeed. At the time, Milo was working directly for Bannon. In the same neighborhood near White Rock Lake lives (I'm not posting his name) a long-time white nationalist organizer affiliated with American Renaissance who is now retired, but tweeted about hosting Nathan Damigo (former white nationalist leader who is from California) at his home.

He's the blonde manlet:



Damigo later showed up at one of these clashes over a Milo speech with muscle in tow and fought with the counter-protesters. Milo's whole deal was always organizing troll armies that he started with Gamergate and this was a step up.

Read up on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension

This also fits the pattern with the Bannon-orchestrated travel ban which caused protesters to flood airports. That book Fire and Fury claims Bannon did it to deliberately provoke and inflame opposition.