On a rainy evening in a quiet residential neighbourhood on Staten Island, right wing media personality John Tabacco stood on the back of a flatbed truck in a suit, flanked by the Stars and Stripes and a ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ flag.
“Believe it or not, this whole damn country left it up to Staten Island to go toe-to-toe with George Soros!” shouted Tabacco, a host on Newsmax. A crowd of protesters cheered the reference to the often-repeated conspiracy theory that many consider to be anti-Semitic. “Staten Island is where we draw a line in the sand. It’s a fight between good and evil,” he went on, to even louder cheers.
