Donald Trump Jr.'s book event was the latest battle in a feud between two factions of right-wing activists.
The first week of Donald Trump Jr.’s tour to promote his new book was marked by protests stemming from a brewing civil war between two different right-wing political factions.
One member of the audience, which had been chanting for the president’s eldest son to answer questions, shouted, “Then open the Q&A!” In fact, although there was a protest of Trump Jr.’s speech planned by a progressive group called RefuseFascism.org, the heckling, according to reporters, came from a group that aligns to the right of Turning Point USA.
In March 2017, Fuentes, then a freshman at Boston University, was featured in a Boston Globe profile of “a new sect of young conservatives” who’ve seized on Trump’s political rise to parlay their own “inflammatory speech into mainstream celebrity.” Lawrence Rosenthal, chair of the Center for Right-Wing Studies at the University of California Berkeley, said that the protests that took place at UCLA Sunday were actually indicative of the alt-right’s unhappiness with Trump.
“There is this notion among them that the cat has been let out of the bag with Trump’s victory, so that their kind of white nationalism can return to being a force in mainstream politics,” he said. According to a report from The State Press, the ASU student newspaper, multiple attendees blamed Fuentes for the disruption.
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