The Radicalization of Eric Atwood, The Neo-Nazi Tarot Reader.

In 2016, I met a white nationalist who had come to his ideology via Buddhism and New Age spirituality. He said he was launching an alt-right fraternity. Did I want to join?

The one time I got a tarot reading, it was from a professed Nazi in Manhattan Beach. Eric was his name. He sold solar panels and lived in a condo a few blocks from the water. We’d been chatting for a couple of months by then, having all kinds of vigorous debates. Long emails and calls from the road. One time he sat in the car park, after the gym, and we…