RICHARD SPENCER'S "ATTEMPT" TO BE A NORMIE DERAILED BY MEDIA

Richard Spencer in 2016 at the height of his demonic powers

Richard Spencer is attempting to pass himself off as a "political moderate" and gun control enthusiast on normie dating app Bumble.

As reported by Jezebel:

I wasn’t expecting to have a borderline-introspective conversation with white supremacist leader Richard Spencer on Tuesday night. But a Jezebel reader spotted him on the dating app Bumble in the Dallas, Texas, area and sent me a few screenshots of his profile. So I found the guy’s number and reached out for comment: Is this really you? Are you really politically “moderate” and “vaccinated?” I needed to know.

Here are the screenshots I received in a tip:

I checked all the vitals: Photos, yes. Age, yes. Height, yes. Astrological sign, yes. Kids, yes. This really appears to be Richard Spencer, the guy who shouted “Hail, Trump!” in 2016, led the 2017 neo-Nazi march through Charlottesville in which white men chanted “Jews will not replace us,” and became the most prominent figure in the American white nationalist movement.

Upon viewing this profile, I thought, maybe this is a catfish? So I obtained Spencer’s phone number from a fellow reporter and asked him myself if this was indeed his Bumble profile. “Yes, that is I,” he responded.

“I’d appreciate your respecting my privacy. This is obviously not newsworthy. I’m simply living my life,” he texted me.

Yes, Richard just wants to be a normie again and maybe meet a nice girl to be a second mother to his kids. This follows his divorce from their first mother, his Russian wife Nina, a few years ago, whom he even accused at one point of getting pregnant by another man.

Nobody should begrudge Spencer the right to step back from the mess that the Alt-Right became. Although this was largely thanks to certain bad decisions he made at the time. But, as this story in Jezebel shows, the media and the Left in general isn't about to let Spencer just become a normal middle-aged man with his own life.

Also there are strong doubts about how sincere Spencer actually is. After all, by ditching his hard right -- some would say "Neo-Nazi" -- positions of 2016, Spencer could possibly soften the blow of civil cases suing him for millions.

Back to Jezebel:

Amy Spitalnick, Executive Director of Integrity First for America, said Spencer is just trying to “avoid accountability” amid a lawsuit he says has “financially crippled” him.

“He is a defendant in our lawsuit against the organizers of the Charlottesville violence. In November, he was found liable as part of a $26M jury verdict,” she said in an email. “He’s been pulling this ‘I’m a moderate now’ thing for a few years. Like with some of the other defendants, it just appears to be a way to try to avoid accountability.”

The real problem for Spencer is that he will always occupy the ambivalent position of both trying to distance himself from his past while also using it and the notoriety it generated to fuel his present day projects. For example, his podcast superchats, publishing projects, and online seminars, from which he raises money, all tap into the audience he built up as the "bad boy" of American politics.