In Reply to: Proud Boys being recruited as ICE Thugs posted by Dr.J on October 14, 2025 at 10:58:47
Both McInnes and Tarrio want to see the Proud Boys more involved in traditional politics. McInnes pointed to members of the group in Miami who secured positions inside a local GOP organization as a potential model going forward.
“They were infiltrating local government,” he said, adding, “I think that’s a cool route to take.”
McInnes agrees that Trump is a unifying figure for the Proud Boys.
“He’s just — he’s one of us,” McInnes said of Trump. “I love that he refuses to kowtow to this whole shame culture. He’s a Proud Boy in many ways.”
McInnes framed the Proud Boys’ role in the new Trump era in distinctly militant terms.
“The gloves are off,” he said. “We tried to play nice. You threw us in jail. … It’s a street fight now.”
if the Proud Boys return to the streets of Portland or anywhere else.
“They’re going to defend themselves in the same way that they always defended themselves, which is to say, march through the city attacking protestors, collecting propaganda, and facing zero consequences for it,” Campbell said.
“Trump is saying he wants to attack the citizenry, and wants to lock up dissenters of American culture, and LGBTQ people,” Campbell said. “There’s very little divide between the people already in politics and what the Proud Boys represent, which is political violence against dissenters.”