So there was a bit of a battle in Berkeley on Saturday between a motley crew of alt-rightists who wanted to give some speeches and a bunch of anti-fascist (antifas) who didn’t want them to.

Things got a bit, well, heated, with the alt-right anti-antifas going on a bit of a rampage.

https://twitter.com/shane_bauer/status/853353232151609344

Yes, that’s right, that was one baseball-hatted defender of “free speech” carrying a golf club on the off chance that he might stumble upon a golf course in the middle of the protests, I guess.

I don’t know if that guy used his golf club on any of the antifas, but there were definitely a lot of alt-rightists using their fists.

https://twitter.com/DJTJohnMiller/status/853401848287379456

The “Proud Boys” considered the day to have been a glorious victory.

https://twitter.com/MikeEnochTRS/status/853375610277777408

https://twitter.com/irmahinojosa_/status/853441335054958593

https://twitter.com/jackhatesme/status/853407789066178560

https://twitter.com/ProudBoysCA/status/853337688056909824

While capturing flags is, I guess, quite thrilling, what has the alt-rightists most excited is that bit at the end of 🇺🇸MAGS4🌹Trump‘s clip above — in which one anti-antifa dude, identified by assorted observers as white supremacist Nathan Damigo, punched an antifa woman in the face.

https://twitter.com/NEETOBO3/status/853368940407345154

https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/status/853371643414151168

She's a feminist. Equal to men, get it? Now she knows firsthand what she's been asking for. 😂😂👠🖕🏻😂😂 — Eye in☀️the Sky🕗 (@irrepressably) April 16, 2017

The punch was quickly memeified.

So now we have this Punch a Communist in the face meme floating around. #berkeleyprotests pic.twitter.com/19atL33nQn — RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) April 16, 2017

https://twitter.com/EvropaAwakening/status/853416124335104000

Meanwhile, some of the biggest celebrity alt-right fellow travelers — who have gone to great lengths to deny being alt-rightists themselves — cheered on the violence. Some were there.

https://twitter.com/Gavin_McInnes/status/853311216596525057

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/853378458520563716

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/853408096953257984

https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/853356615021453312

Southern, ostensibly a journalist, was one of those who was there to witness the “victory” in person, wearing a MAGA helmet and accompanied by “Proud Boy” bodyguards.

https://twitter.com/shane_bauer/status/853367513626759169

Meanwhile, one fellow who’s a bit more honest about his allegiences than many of the alt-right fellow travelers looked toward the future with cautious optimism.

https://twitter.com/NEETOBO3/status/853465353673883648

https://twitter.com/NEETOBO3/status/853466123722936320

https://twitter.com/NEETOBO3/status/853468508679675905

https://twitter.com/NEETOBO3/status/853469689061621760

So how was your Saturday?

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