Reporter: I Was Harassed By Nazis Attending CPAC

February 27, 2024 Extremists, Republicans

Amanda Moore writes for The Nation:

On February 23, the third day of the CPAC, Ryan Sanchez, who had been kicked out of the US Marine Corps for his involvement with white nationalists, saddled up to me at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center. After I’d been barred from CPAC the day prior, I had turned a table in the lobby into my temporary office. He had recognized me for my reporting—some of it undercover—of the far-right movement.

Sanchez had slicked-back hair and wore a black leather jacket over a black mock turtleneck. His friends buzzed around us while he talked at me; eventually, he suggested getting a photo. I didn’t want to cede ground, but neither did I want to be photographed with them. I put my head down, covered my face with arms, and extended my middle finger in a pique of resistance. Leaning into me, Sanchez laid his left arm across my shoulders, made a duck face, and a hang-loose gesture.

Then once a photo had been captured, he threw his arm up in a sieg heil to his guffawing friends. Still this had been less harrowing than last year when Sanchez and his friends had circled me in a hallway, calling me a slut and making Holocaust jokes for six minutes on a livestream.

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