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Boogaloo Bois: Violent Anti-Establishment Extremists in Festive Hawaiian Shirts

By Bulent Kenes

As a pro-Second Amendment movement, the Boogaloo Boys are easily recognizable because of their Hawaiian-themed Aloha shirts and masks along with their semi-automatic weapons. Having the basic characteristics of anti-establishment far-right populists and seeing the outbreak of violence as something like a party, typically accelerationist Boogaloo Boys use these Hawaiian shirts to hide their intention to trigger a civil war to overthrow what they regard as a corrupt establishment in the US.

Brussels: European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), 2021. 29p.