Dear Oregonian: Joey Gibson Doesn't Need Our Understanding

by Alex ZielinskiJoey Gibson speaking at a pro-Trump rally he organized in 2017.DOUG BROWN
On Saturday morning, Portlanders awoke to news that a right-wing, anti-Semitic extremist entered a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 people attending Shabbat service.The next day, the Oregonian ran a love letter to the leader of the Portland area’s own far-right extremist group.Titled “The Misunderstood Joey Gibson,” Oregonian columnist Elizabeth Hovde wove a sympathetic story about a ho