'Proud Boys' or 'Proud kids', the far-right group mentioned by Trump in the debate

They define themselves as a men's club that loves America and hates political correctness.

Literally, according to

its website, the

(

) are "men who refuse to apologize for having created, also known as Western chauvinists modern world".

During the presidential debate between

and his Democratic rival

the president of the United States not only refused to explicitly condemn white supremacists, but also winked at the

, a nationalist group that has been around since 2017. participating in extreme right demonstrations.

He asked them to "go back and wait" and added: "I'll tell you something, someone has to do something with the Antifa", referring to the extreme left movement since the violence emanates from it.

Minutes later, on the

Telegram channels

, the group replicated this phrase and interpreted it as a call to action.

As Megan Squire, a computer science professor at Elon University (North Carolina) who specializes in tracking the American extreme right on the Internet, told NBC, "To say that the

are encouraged by the comment is to stay short.

. Their fantasy is to fight Antifa in his defense, and apparently he asked them just that. "

But who exactly are these

?

The principles they defend are: minimum government and maximum freedom, defense of the right to bear arms,

and veneration of housewives, among others.

Several of them are in the DNA of Donald Trump's speech.

To this amalgam must be added

Proud Boys was

born from the hand of

in New York in 2016, eight years after he left

magazine

,

and which earned a space in the media world for specializing in viral content and reports directed at a young audience.

The name,

, comes, according to McInness,

(

) and

initially

emerged as a "secret group" only made up of men who "drink, fight and read aloud high excerpts from 'The Death of the West' by Pat Buchanan ".

(a model that the brand has just withdrawn from sale in the United States), and red baseball caps with the slogan "Make America Great Again."

Refuse masturbation and get hit

Qualified by many organizations as a "hate group", to become a member of it there is a ritual in four steps that can be seen in several videos on the Internet.

First, you must take an oath to the ideology of the group.

Second, you have to refuse masturbation and get beaten up while reciting at least five brands of cereal.

Third, you have to get a

and fourth, you have to demonstrate "commitment" to the group through violence.

According to 'Forbes' magazine, after the election of Donald Trump in 2016, the group gradually became a name among the American extreme right and, in 2017, its pages on social networks had at least 20,000 members, according to the Organization Southern Poverty Law Center in defense of civil rights, which has also compiled several phrases from McInness over the last few years that show his concern for the "besieged" white race.

In 2017, for example, he said: "I am not afraid to speak out about

and people of European descent, not only here in this country, but also in Western nations around the world. The war against whites, Europeans and Western society is very real and it's time we all started talking about it and stopped worrying about political correctness and optics. "

Expelled from Twitter (in 2018) and Facebook (2020), for breaking the rules of both companies with their hate speech, the

have participated in several far-right demonstrations in the United States since 2017;

specifically in Portland (Oregon) in marches organized by the Patriot Prayer (another far-right group) or in the notorious 2017 demonstration in Charlotessville (Virginia) where clashes between white supremacists and left-wing counter-protesters ended up causing three dead and dozens injured.

Gavin McInness, who wanted to disassociate himself from these marches, left the

in 2018 - that same year, the FBI described the organization as an "extremist group" linked to "white nationalism" - and since then, Afro-Cuban

has been at the forefront.

, 34, very close to the Republican Party in Florida.

In February 2019, he was caught on camera sitting right behind Donald Trump during a president's rally in Miami, wearing sunglasses and a black T-shirt with the slogan "

."

Stone, a former collaborator of Donald Trump, was sentenced last February to three years in prison on charges such as lying to Congress and manipulating witnesses in the so-called Russian plot.

Months later, Trump commuted his sentence, thus preventing him from going to prison.

There

is a video on

the

YouTube channel

in which Stone recites the group's mantra: "I am a Western chauvinist and I refuse to apologize for creating the modern world."

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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