Elliott Kline decided he needed to get serious about his neo-Nazism when he saw a neo-Nazi hero get punched.
Kline, a human resources administrator by day, had already changed his name to Eli Mosley — an homage to British fascist Oswald Mosley, the sad-sack, upper-crust twit who extravagantly tried to get England to love Nazism after the Second World War. But then, leading American white supremacist Richard Spencer got sucker-punched by a protester on the streets of Washington at Donald Trump’s inauguration.
“I was pissed off, because I was like if had already found [Spencer] or I was already there, that wouldn’t have happened,” Eli told the New York Times, which profiled him in a video documentary, embedded below. “We are a group of well-mannered, good looking young white people who have something to say.”
Eli dove headfirst into the cause of white supremacy — protecting the boss, doing news interviews, ordering khaki-and-white-oxford-clad snowflake armies in Charlottesville when to light their torches. And he rose fast, becoming an articulate, clean-cut spokesman for the white right when media outlets came looking for a leader among the racists.
It helped that he was an Iraq vet, who talked often about his experience. “I went from Kuwait to Baghdad back and forth and then we did a little bit on the, uh, the east border over by the, uh, by Iran,” he said on a Holocaust-denying podcast.
Except Eli wasn’t a clean-cut spokesman; he was a slur-spouting, run-of-the-mill bigot on the internet, where he went by the handle “Judenjager” — Jew-hunter.
And he never deployed to Iraq, or anywhere else. In fact, the Times learned from Army records and Eli’s former fellow soldiers, he served in the Pennsylvania National Guard “but quit before his contract was up.”
"On one hand, it’s an extremely fine point to deride for stolen valor a neo-Nazi who jokes gleefully about gassing Jews, starving black and Latino people, and shooting Muslims. On the other hand, watch that racist piece of crap twist in the wind as he realizes he can’t pile the shit any higher. It is glorious.
Will Eli’s grift matter? Probably not to his fellow Dixie-singing, AR-15-caressing, mayonnaise-loving buddies. As Cott points out in her documentary, being full of shit is sort of a prerequisite for being an American Nazi."
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