The Sunglasses of the Alt-Right

On the evening of July 10, 2021, Spencer Harkins lay in the bed of his Chevrolet Silverado in the parking lot of Mt. Shasta Ski Park, in McCloud, California. Harkins had competed in a mountain bike race at the resort earlier that day, and he was relaxing and thumbing through his iPhone.

The moment of solitude was broken when a friend called to alert him to a video being shared on Twitter. Shot just outside the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, an annual Republican gathering that was being held that day in Dallas, it featured an alt-right extremist named Nick Fuentes standing in front of a small crowd of supporters.

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