Mock Them

I remain unimpressed with most of what Antifa's Black Bloc does, with the exception of protecting people from raging white supremacists.  They are cosplay anarchists. I don't think the proper response to the Proud Boys is to meet them with aggression.  As Josh Marshall points out, that feeds their own narrative.  There's an understandable desire to see yourself as successfully fighting the next Hitler.  That's bad ass.  But there are very few actual Hitlers out there and the Proud Boys?  That ain't one of them.

As Marshall points out, these "feral dweebs" can be dangerous at the extremes, and recent events suggest that law enforcement is being more proactive in monitoring rightist hate sites and heading off would-be killers.  But mockery really is the best response to this collection of losers and wannabes.  Violence feeds right into what they want.