It's not uncommon for people in general to overestimate their own capabilities or underestimate the capabilities of their opponents. In today's day and age, you can see it during football season when a not very good team with a losing record faces a generally much stronger winning team with players who are considered to be more talented only to see the better team get outplayed on both sides of the ball. Why did it happen? Perhaps the better team was overconfident and didn't practice as hard the previous week. Perhaps the other team was just hungrier. It was likely a combination of factors.
I've seen many of the RW protests over the last few years. The "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville , Virginia in August of 2017 comes to mind. One of the things I noticed is that many of the RW protesters were armed. However, I also noticed that it was very common for the RW protesters to be considerably outnumbered by the counter-protesters. Apparently, a lot of these counter-protesters have decided to arm themselves. I have a feeling that the Proud Boys Hawaiian shirts wont be a match for the body armor of the NFAC.
The Many Lives of Grandmaster Jay - The Atlantic
Jay claims that the NFAC first appeared publicly when nine white supremacists came to Dayton, Ohio, in May 2019. No one seems to have noticed the coalition then, amid some 600 other counter-protesters. In 2020, however, it showed up in larger numbers (Jay claims thousands, but hundreds seems more realistic) at protests over Confederate monuments and over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia; at protests over the police shooting of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky; and at protests over the police shooting of Trayford Pellerin in Lafayette, Louisiana.
In Louisville, just two hours from where Jay and I sat, the NFAC first revealed the extent of its capabilities. On his YouTube channel, Jay posted a video of his troops in formation, and local news stations ran aerial shots. The men and women are ragtag and amateur, and their uniforms are not, well, uniform. One man has a Texas-flag patch Velcroed to his body armor; a woman taps the trigger guard of her AR-15 with a three-inch yellow fingernail. But my goodness, the weaponry—AR-15s galore, sniper rifles with scopes and bipods, high-capacity magazines, and enough “tactical” clothing to resupply an Army-surplus store. They look like World War II partisans meeting their clandestine commander for the first time. They stand in neat, spaced columns. I counted 28 rows of seven before I stopped counting. (By contrast, aerial photos suggest that the white militiamen present that day could have fit in a small school bus.) When Jay orders his people into motion, they go.
I've seen many of the RW protests over the last few years. The "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville , Virginia in August of 2017 comes to mind. One of the things I noticed is that many of the RW protesters were armed. However, I also noticed that it was very common for the RW protesters to be considerably outnumbered by the counter-protesters. Apparently, a lot of these counter-protesters have decided to arm themselves. I have a feeling that the Proud Boys Hawaiian shirts wont be a match for the body armor of the NFAC.
The Many Lives of Grandmaster Jay - The Atlantic
Jay claims that the NFAC first appeared publicly when nine white supremacists came to Dayton, Ohio, in May 2019. No one seems to have noticed the coalition then, amid some 600 other counter-protesters. In 2020, however, it showed up in larger numbers (Jay claims thousands, but hundreds seems more realistic) at protests over Confederate monuments and over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia; at protests over the police shooting of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky; and at protests over the police shooting of Trayford Pellerin in Lafayette, Louisiana.
In Louisville, just two hours from where Jay and I sat, the NFAC first revealed the extent of its capabilities. On his YouTube channel, Jay posted a video of his troops in formation, and local news stations ran aerial shots. The men and women are ragtag and amateur, and their uniforms are not, well, uniform. One man has a Texas-flag patch Velcroed to his body armor; a woman taps the trigger guard of her AR-15 with a three-inch yellow fingernail. But my goodness, the weaponry—AR-15s galore, sniper rifles with scopes and bipods, high-capacity magazines, and enough “tactical” clothing to resupply an Army-surplus store. They look like World War II partisans meeting their clandestine commander for the first time. They stand in neat, spaced columns. I counted 28 rows of seven before I stopped counting. (By contrast, aerial photos suggest that the white militiamen present that day could have fit in a small school bus.) When Jay orders his people into motion, they go.
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