Cheers And Jeers

Winter, 2019

What to do when an extremist group decides to gather at your local bar? Inside a cultural and constitutional quagmireMake Westing, a popular bar in Oakland, California, has a front patio that some patrons refer to as the city’s front porch. “We have a huge crowd, and it’s everything—it’s black, it’s white, it’s old, it’s young,” says a representative of the bar, who asked not to be named. Imagine their surprise last summer when an assistant manager saw a Reddit post claiming that a local chapter...