The unwilling poster figure of the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville has publicly recounted his conversion to Catholicism after abandoning the extremist politics that first brought him notoriety.
Writing in an opinion piece for the US journal Crisis Magazine, Peter Cytanovic reflects on his past as one of the most recognisable faces of the “Unite the Right” rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. A photograph of him, taken while he was shouting during a torch-lit march, circulated widely in the international media and became, in his words, “part of the visual shorthand for white supremacy in contemporary America”.
