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‘Who Are These Masked Men?’

Mark Twain is credited with saying, “History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes.” Such is the case with several semi-related incidents in Virginia Beach.

First, as I have testified to in earlier columns, not only was I there for what are called the “Unite the Right” riots in Charlottesville, but for the years leading up to them. So, when familiar patterns start appearing, it gets my attention.

On Saturday, a group of individuals in white masks carried Confederate flags and 13-star American flags as they marched down the Virginia Beach oceanfront. Cat Porterfield, of the independent local media outlet Stoke Media, posted a photo of the masked men, taken, she says, from a video sent to her by a black family staying at a nearby hotel.

The group is called the Patriot Front, which was founded in 2017 to attend the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. The group’s website offers this statement: “The present State has lost the mantle of legitimacy derived from the Founding and must face alteration or abolition.” 

This is all starting to take on an eerily reminiscent feeling.

It begins with Virginia Beach businesses and residents confronted with large, unpermitted “pop-up” events at the Oceanfront, often advertised on social........

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