If you weren’t already familiar with the Proud Boys, the far-right group known for spouting white nationalist, anti-Muslim and misogynistic rhetoric, before last night, you probably are now.
But you may not know they’re named after a hit Broadway musical.During Tuesday night’s presidential debate sh*t storm, when given the opportunity to denounce white supremacy, Donald Trump instead delivered this message: “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by.” The group instantly started celebrating the callout online.“To say Proud Boys are energized by this is an understatement,” Megan Squire, a computer science professor at Elon University in North Carolina who tracks online extremism, told NBC.