Joe Biggs hustled away from the scene, the bill of his baseball cap pointed backward, reading, “Make Frogs Straight Again.” A former Infowars staffer, Biggs was abandoning his “End Antifa” rally in Portland, Oregon that he had been hyping for weeks and which lasted half an hour.

About five hundred participants, many in Proud Boy uniform — black-and-gold Fred Perry polo shirts and red MAGA caps — gathered in a waterfront park, sang the national anthem, and filled the air with chants of “USA! USA!” and fruity vape juice emissions.

But boxed in by concrete barricades and armed riot police and nearly a thousand antifascists having a dance party, the far right quickly called it quits. A local official said the Proud Boys were “so outnumbered, they wanted to get out of town.” The Portland police escorted them over a bridge closed to all other traffic and into a parking lot on the East Side, where most participants piled into their cars to leave town.