Patriot Front: What we know about the White nationalist group

CNN — With their faces concealed behind white cloths and sunglasses, dozens of protesters marched down the streets of downtown Nashville this weekend, chanting “Sieg Heil” and “Deportation saves the nation,” according to a statement from the Tennessee Democratic Party. Patriot Front “is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Later that month, Thomas Ryan Rousseau, who led Vanguard America members at “Unite the Right,” rebranded the group’s website and launched a new group called Patriot Front, according to the Anti-Defamation League. “Members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front believe that their ancestors conquered America and bestowed it to them, and no one else,” according to the ADL. Certainly, hateful speech, for sure, but this is much more a group that’s designed for image and for creating a public spectacle.” Strzok said the emergence of the “replacement theory” has played into White nationalist propaganda, and “I think that’s encouraging or accepting behavior that in the past we had moved away from.” But Strzok said there’s always a key question with such groups: “Is there a trigger point where their intention is to move from simply protesting to violence?” How is Patriot Front different from other White nationalist or White supremacist groups?