Andrew Anglin (1984-) was an American fascist and neo-Nazi who founded the alt-right website The Daily Stormer in July 2013. Anglin was known to use internet memes to attract a younger audience, and he created the "Troll Army", a far-right group of internet users involved in internet trolling of figures who Anglin disagreed with.
Biography[]
Andrew Anglin was born in Ohio, and he was raised as a liberal. Anglin read Noam Chomsky and communist literature in high school, and he even studied Islam, Buddhism, and French philosophers. However, he started reading Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, and he later came to agree with all of the core principals of national socialism. Anglin launched his first websites in 2012, with one focusing on reptilian conspiracy theories and the other, TotalFascism.com, featuring long fascist essays. Anglin founded The Daily Stormer in July 2013, naming it after the Nazi Party tabloid newspaper Der Stuermer, run by the executed war criminal Julius Streicher. Anglin posted people's addresses and personal information online, and he was involved with internet trolling, the radicalization of young conservatives into alt-right supporters, and in working with other alt-right outlets such as Henrik Palmgren's Red Ice Media. On his website The Daily Stormer, he posted hundreds of articles targeting African-Americans, Jews, and Arabs, and he supported the separatists in eastern Ukraine during the Donbass War and the government of Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian Civil War. In 2016, he claimed that the alt-right had won the "meme war" to take control of the Republican Party, and he became an outspoken Donald Trump supporter; he also refused to play down his views, saying that he wanted to ethnically cleanse white nations of non-whites, establish an authoritarian government, and exterminate the Jews. In August 2017, he supported the fascist protester James Alex Fields Jr.'s murder of counter-protester Heather D. Heyer during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, calling her "fat" and insulting her. As a result, Google and GoDaddy cancelled Anglin's website's registration on 14 August 2017.