It was impossible to miss the heavyset man in the red Make America great again cap and hoodie. In the video of police at the University of Connecticut hauling away far-right propagandist Lucian Wintrich on Tuesday, he was the guy barreling after Wintrich and into the back of a cop. Im with Lucian! the man said.

That was Salvatore Sal Cipolla. Hed been buzzing around Wintrich all night, shooting video, protecting his faggot charge (Cipollas word), checking on him in the bathroom as Wintrich, a race-baiting alt-lite activist who works for the pro-Trump Gateway Pundit website and whom the White House has seen fit to award press credentials, applied balm to his lips before delivering an Its OK to be white speech.

It was a speech the UConn College Republicans wanted to hear, one about mean fat girls and tranny communists, the crooked elite and the lying media, one accompanied by slides of Hitler and black women in bathing suits. It was a speech about Mexican immigrants and how the real racists are on the left. The usual provocations, a sort of Canal Street knockoff of Milo Yiannopoulos queeny hate-ogre routine. The thrust of Wintrichs message: Be white, be proud.

But there was a more subtle message, as well: that his alt-lite cabal of race-baiting pro-Trump social media influencers, which also includes Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec, were nothing like the Richard Spencer hatemongers of the world; that their less-brutish white identity politics had nothing to do with intolerance.

Theyll call you racists, and Nazis, but none of it is true, he planned to tell his audience, according to a transcript of his speech.

But right there, kitted out in MAGA gear and standing by Wintrichs side, was Cipolla, a racist who has marched alongside neo-Nazis. His social media is littered with racist , hateful remarks and photos of him hanging out with David Duke and other prominent white supremacists , as well as Donald Trump -connected ratfuckers, such as Chuck Johnson and James OKeefe, who consort with white supremacists. Cipollas presence alongside Wintrich is good evidence there is little thats lite about Wintrichs alt.