CANTWELL GIVES UP WHITE NATIONALISM FOR THE BOTTLE

Police mug shot: trying to stay dry (around the eyes) this time.

Christopher Cantwell is one of those Alt-Right figures granted celebrity status by the media because he is exactly the kind of "leader" the Left want to see dominating the Dissident Right -- namely a narcissistic, emotionally needy, mentally unsound idiot, likely to discredit the movement at any moment.

Now, following his proverbial 15 minutes of fame, Cantwell seems to be hitting the bottle pretty hard, getting arrested for public drunkenness, rather than for his Alt-Right activities:

Christopher Charles Cantwell, a self-described white nationalist and alt-right activist, was arrested on March 31 in Leesburg for public swearing and intoxication, according to the Leesburg Police Department.

Leesburg police officers observed Cantwell trying to cross the street in the 500 block of Market Street, according to LPD spokesman Sam Shenouda.

"When they made contact with him, he did show signs of drunkenness. He smelled of alcohol, couldn’t keep his balance,” Shenouda told the Times-Mirror. “At that point, we’re responsible for the person’s safety, so he was taken into custody and held until sober."

Cantwell is currently out on bond following his arrest for "illegal use of tear gas" at the Charlottesville rally in August 2017. Cantwell claims, with some justification, that he only used the tear gas in self defence against antifa who were allowed to attack Alt-Righters by the police. 

But it was his arrest, following this incident, and the tearful video that he posted on YouTube before surrendering himself to the police, that allowed the Leftist media to dub him the "Crying Nazi." 

In the weeks before the incident, Cantwell had been "radicalised" from being a nationalistic "men's rights" Trump supporter with a relatively popular YouTube channel to a Stormerist Neo-Nazi White Nationalist of the kind that the media really loves. A large part of this transition came about through his association with (((TRS))). 

This then made him an obvious mark for Vice, who saw Cantwell's potential to present the Alt-Right in the worst possible light, and accordingly sent along a documentary team to film his every move.

Cantwell is clearly a mentally weak individual, who is always liable to do something stupid or self-destructive, and is not the right kind of person to be part of any political movement let alone a persecuted dissident movement like the Alt-Right. 

Hopefully hiding in a bottle will help him to escape his demons, while also distancing him from the movement that he can only discredit by his presence. To be frank, the alternatives for someone of Cantwell's obvious mental fragility are not too rosy. 

His next court appearance is scheduled for June 26 if he survives that long.