BuzzFeed: “As the United States hurtles toward the presidential election, the country seems ready to forget that its own homegrown fascism predated President Donald Trump — and to ignore that it will last after he leaves office. Yet for its part, Patriot Front couldn’t care less about the results of the upcoming election. ‘It does not matter what people personally believe about it,’ wrote the organization’s leader, Thomas Rousseau, who did not respond to a request for comment, in one of the chats. ‘Casting a ballot is a submissive gesture to legitimize tyranny. It is fundamentally amoral. It is done as an insult to the nation’s cause and the organization.'”
“To them, Trump is an old man holding up crumbling institutions, enacting policies that incrementally forward the cause without remaking the institutions themselves. When he’s gone, the rubble will remain, and to many he’ll be nothing but a tool they used to build the white power movement up. The members of Patriot Front think that time is on their side. And with a leader still in his early twenties, they take a long view. ‘There is no ‘endgame,’’ Rousseau wrote. ‘The nation doesn’t ‘end.’ We’re not conventionally political to the point where there’s a defined ‘end’ of service. It’s not an office, a seat in congress, a law, or a percentage of representation.’”