Unsure why but it is interesting that while there have been a few reports detailing the role of PBs, certain white nationalist personalities, conspiracy outlets, etc at the RW anti-lockdown protests, little mention of tendency most armed demonstrators seem to hail from.

Not that a lot of the guys who love 2A in Hawaiian shirts don't also enjoy the same memes and reading materials as the better-known far-right cliques but it's a little odd media hasn't seized on the anti-gov/militia milieu's hottest trend after what happened in RVA months ago.

Maybe it's for the best given how badly a lot of the early mainstream reporting on the alt-right was. Although unlike the alt-right, these guys are way less concerned with aggressively marketing themselves to people in the establishment or lib/center-left tastemakers.

So maybe half an hour after this thread this story came out (read until the update at the bottom), which does note the role in 2A related protests but again, there's no mention of visible presence in any of the Covid related protests https://twitter.com/BuzzFeed/status/1253132372599607296