Campbell’s ‘We Are Proud Boys’ offers a definitive look at the neofascist warriors against democracy

Andy Campbell doesn’t mince words in his terrific new book, We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism. Early in the text, he explicitly and correctly identifies these street brawlers as a fundamentally fascist organization.

“They’ve been extremely successful at marketing themselves to the right as an innocent organization of downtrodden Trump supporters,” he writes in the introduction. “But in reality, the Proud Boys have been on a yearslong fascist march through the country, attacking their political opponents in the street, destroying property, and committing mutinous crimes, all in the name of Trump and [founder Gavin] McInnes.”