Iron March users mostly eschewed the notion of voting their way into a fascist utopia. They wanted to see chaos reign.

Some dropped a few references on the site to “God Emperor” Donald Trump during the spring and summer of 2016, when the Republican nominee became a cause célèbre throughout the West, but others claimed to embrace him only because of the degree to which they thought he would aid in accelerating the planet to the point of collapse.

Russell, for example, thought of Trump as a “faggot” with a “pro-kike” mindset, according to a post published to the forum on Nov. 22, 2016.

“He doesn’t look bad ass,” Russell railed about the president-elect while older white supremacists like David Duke touted Trump as the “great white hope.”

“What I see is a faggot with a cucked worldview shouting to a crowd of sheep buzzwords that would naturally instill some energy in anybody. They’re literally at a rally, with a fag preaching to them about how much [they] love the president-elect of this SYSTEM, who is pro-kike,” Russell wrote. “WHAT A CLUSTER FUCK.”

Russell’s use of the word “system” is likely gleaned from reading repeated refrains in books like The Turner Diaries, a white supremacist novel beloved by Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, and SIEGE, a national socialist manifesto penned over several years in the 1980s by Charles Manson acolyte James Mason. Russell kept a framed photo of McVeigh in his apartment, and The Turner Diaries is referenced scores of times on Iron March.

Mason’s book, which was adored and aggressively promoted inside of the community of Iron March across the six years of its existence, explicitly calls for the reader to commit acts of terrorism. Mason suggests at one point in the text that when revolutionary national socialism reaches the United States, “There will be no need of concentration camps of any kind, for not a single transgressor will survive long enough to make it to that kind of haven.”



This photo of Atomwaffen Division members was posted on the Iron March website.

Russell’s explosive building agenda, and the revelations that he attempted to send bomb-making instructions to other Atomwaffen Division members from prison, indicate how seriously he took the statements he made on Iron March.

Montreal-based Daily Stormer collaborator Gabriel Sohier Chaput, an antisemite who went by the pseudonym “Zeiger,” posted frequently to Iron March and also wrote essays for the site’s in-house publication, Rope Culture. Chaput was outed by the Montreal Gazette in November 2018 and became a fugitive from justice. Today he is still fleeing the law on charges of promoting of hatred.

Dissenting with some of his cohorts outside the forum, including Daily Stormer’s editor Andrew Anglin, who heralds Trump as “the great cleanser,” Chaput predicted the degree to which white supremacists would eventually become disenchanted with the president’s potential to bring transformative, racist change to the West.

“Even if Trump were the new incarnation of Hitler himself, there’s very little he could do, surrounded as he is with the swamp of Kikes and shills which have festered at the heart of America for decades,” Chaput wrote on Iron March as Zeiger. “As such, his presidency doesn’t change our goals and the task at hand.”

The task at hand was always to build a hardline fascist state regardless of what path it took to get there. Chaput summed up his nihilistic view of the world in a Nov. 21, 2014, post on the forum, addressing the subject of what he perceived to be a plague of human degeneracy sweeping across Western countries.

“The degenerate man of today is a consequence of the degenerate world we live in,” he wrote. “As the age of darkness recedes, the new man will rise all by himself. The coming chaos (economic collapse, race wars, whatever) will kill off the degenerates and facilitate the rise of the best elements.”

“That’s fascism brah,” he quipped later in the post.

Seemingly every news event discussed on Iron March was framed in the context of how it potentially could portend the collapse of society, giving way to a national socialist, genocidal planet. The convicted killer Arthurs even suggested in 2015, for example, that not Trump, but Jewish Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders, could be “great” from an “accelerationist perspective.”

“Well, his policies would be suicidal for the state it would cost the state something like 24 trillion dollars,” Arthurs wrote as TheWeissewolfe on Sept. 23, 2015. “From an accelerationist perspective he’s great, on the other hand he could have far more devious and terrible policies that could harm us.”

Accelerationism refers to the idea that our neoliberal social order should be pushed to such an extreme degree that Western countries become failed states, giving rise to changes that would reshape our world in radical ways.