Over the next four months, Quinn marched along with "black bloc anarchists in half a dozen cities across the country." He was in Washington D.C., where militant agitators harassed diners, and in Portland where rioters launched fireworks at the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse.
"He says he respects the idealistic goal of a hierarchy-free society that anarchists embrace, but grew increasingly uncomfortable with the tactics used by some anarchists, which he feared would set off a backlash that could help get President Trump re-elected."
Quinn told the New York Times that the far-left anarchists were not "a spontaneous eruption of anger at racial injustice," like much of the mainstream media categorized the violence as. "It was strategically planned, facilitated and advertised on social media by anarchists who believed that their actions advanced the cause of racial justice."
Quinn cautioned that the violent militants in Washington, Portland, and Seattle generated a "cultlike energy."
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