Spencer rose to prominence in 2016 and popularised the term ‘alt-right’. But now he has gone from being an influential figure to being left with nothing. His organization has dissolved, his wife has divorced him, and he is facing a trial over his involvement in the deadly 2017 neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville. Now, has has been ostracised his hometown of Whitefish over a local dispute. The downfall of a former powerful neo-Nazi has been chronicled in a new report, detailing how has been shunned from his hometown restaurants, is out of work, divorced and is too broke to pay his trial lawyer. Richard Spencer – a neo-Nazi, anti semitic conspiracy theorist and white supremacist – rose to national attention in 2016 when he popularised the term ‘alt-right’ and became the public face of white supremacy. (…) Spencer, along with Anglin, are also among several defendants name d in a lawsuit filed by victims and counter-protestors at the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville.At the Virginia rally, held from August 11 to 12 in 2017, neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one – Heather Heyer – and injuring 19 other people. Last year, Spencer’s attorney withdrew from the case because he had not been paid, and in 2016 Spencer complained about being deplatformed when he was banned from Twitter, saying it was harder for him to raise money to cover his legal fees. He has been representing himself ever since. Whitefish residents have made their feelings clear about Spencer, booing him out of local restaurants. ‘Richard Spencer wanted this to be his happy vacation place where he could play and have fun, and people would just live and let live,’ Rabbi Roston told the New York Times. ‘Then he started suffering social consequences for his hatred.’

via daily mail: Shunned from his hometown restaurants, out of work, divorced and too broke to hire a trial lawyer: The fall and fall of once powerful neo-Nazi Richard Spencer