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When a white supremacist named Randy Weaver got into an armed standoff with federal agents that August in the state’s Panhandle, it provided Gritz with his greatest opportunity ever. By negotiating an end to the Ruby Ridge siege after two days on the scene, Gritz once again attained pop-hero status.

At Ruby Ridge, though, Gritz reminded everyone that his heroism had a troubling shadow: As he left the scene and went out to talk to the crowd, he relayed a message from Weaver to the skinheads and neo-Nazis gathered nearby by offering them a stiff-armed Nazi salute.

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The far right's bullshitting heroes: Before there was Trump, there was Bo Gritz

One of the central figures of the 1990s Patriot/militia movement passed away last week, but his toxic legacy lives on in MAGA and Trump

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Gritz abandoned the Idaho plans, resettled in Nevada, and remarried – this time, to the daughter of a prominent white-supremacist Christian Identity preacher. Gritz became a full-fledged member of an Identity congregation.