The result was never in doubt. With defence counsel provided by the same state that was prosecuting him, Alex Fields had little chance of a fair trial in Charlottesville. The Left wanted murder and they got murder, even though to most fair-minded people it looked more like manslaughter.
But what comes next?
Now, with Richard Spencer's Alt-Right officially connected to an actual murder, the next step will undoubtedly be another spate of deplatforming by Big Tech of Alt and Dissident Right sites, channels, and accounts.
Expect to see YouTube channels like "Heel Turn," which Spencer is now hosting, shut down. Even Spencer's beloved Twitter account, where he seems to spend most of his time, could be in danger. That would probably kill him if he lost that.
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| Fields, another victim of Spencer's narcissism and fecklessness. |
Really, if the Alt-Right had been serious about staying in business they would have tried a lot harder to save their guy Fields from the kangaroo court in Charlottesville by paying for a proper defence team. But even if they had raised millions of dollars -- impossible for them to do now -- I don't think anyone would have taken the case.
That is literally how toxic Spencer has made the Alt-Right through his reckless associations with the likes of Mike "Edge Cases" Enoch and various people from the Nazi-presenting Daily Stormer, including even Weev and Anglin in the past. He can't say he wasn't warned because he was.
In the same way that a few careless Nazi memes can get a young kid convicted of murder nowadays, so allowing your movement to become indelibly associated with White Nationalism 1.0 stupidity can get it entirely deplatformed. But, hey, but maybe that's what Spencer's wanted all along.
