The one contribution that the Proud Boys — the mostly white-boy street thugs who arrived on the scene around the same time, not coincidentally, as the political ambitions of their hero Donald Trump — and the movement’s Canadian founder Gavin McInnes have made to the canon of modern intellectual thought is that society needs a bloody punch in the nose. “I want violence,” McInnes, who has clung to a veneer of respectability for also founding the magazine that became Vice, proclaimed on his talk show in the spring of 2016, as Trump was claiming the GOP presidential nomination. “I want punching in…
