Here at RedState, we've been covering in some detail the shadowy Patriot Front movement, that monolithically young, fit, quasi-uniformed and masked dudes who show up carrying signs, American flags, Confederate battle flags, and signs promoting white supremacy.
Since this group first popped up, though, the legacy media and Democrats (but I repeat myself) have been oddly incurious about these people. Not so on the other side of the aisle; at least, not any more. Now, Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13) is calling for House Oversight to look into the Patriot Front's organization and funding.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) on Monday called for an investigation into the Patriot Front white nationalist group after its Independence Day rally and march across Washington, D.C.
“What I find odd about Patriot Front is how under Biden they were never investigated. Well funded. Never investigated,” Luna wrote in a post on the social platform X.
“FBI under Biden looked into Catholics instead. So, looks like @GOPoversight should do some digging,” she added, referring to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
It's unclear if Rep. Luna expects the FBI to look into this group now, although the FBI falls under the executive branch; they could certainly do such an investigation, which seems far more likely under President Trump than under the administration of Joe Biden.
Rep. Luna made her call right after the Patriot Front's 400-person march; if these people are, in fact, white supremacists, then these 400 people may represent the entire population of actual no-Schiff white supremacists in the United States, despite the left's claims that one can find a white supremacist under any flat rock.
Luna’s push for a probe follows Patriot Front’s 400-person march throughout the nation’s capital on Saturday. Many of the people in the march were masked and uniformed, and some were carrying the American flag upside down.
The group is known for its “flash demonstrations,” making it one of the United States’s most visible white supremacist groups, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
We aren't aware of any connection (yet) between the Patriot Front and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has a predilection for funding groups like this.
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The really baffling part about all this is, really, somewhat obvious. The left is fond of shouting about all the nation's ills, including bad weather, fleas, mosquitoes, and dandruff, being caused by the nefarious machinations of white supremacists. Now, here is a group that is openly preaching, at the least, white separatism, and the left is oddly subdued. There were no calls for investigations during the Biden administration. The FBI, as Rep. Luna notes, didn't look into the group. Joe Biden, well, he was scarcely aware of where he had stuck his fingers last, much less of any supposed white supremacist groups.
No, it took a conservative Republican to call for that. Curiouser and curiouser.
Look, here's the thing: Even if these people are an honest-to-gosh, detestable group of white racists, we have to note a few things: They didn't hurt anyone. They didn't loot any stores or burn anything. They didn't even litter. And their proclaimed views may be reprehensible, even so, the 1st Amendment protects their rights to proclaim them. Although it's a safe bet that's not why the Democrats seem so strangely incurious about this group.
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