WHO'S WHO IN THE DISSIDENT RIGHT: DAVID COLE (AKA DAVID STEIN)

David Cole: Republican Party Animal

by Colin Liddell

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Born in 1968, David Cole is a holocaust revisionist and an "edgytarian" normie Conservative. He is a self-confessed alcoholic and is prone to temper tantrums. His estimated height is around 150 cm. 

Cole became well-known in the 1990s due to being a Jew doing holocaust revisionism. Following the fall of the Iron Curtain, it became easier to visit historical sites in the former Soviet Bloc and do new research on the Holocaust.

According to Jewish convert Luke Ford, Cole was initially a "Holocaust denier" but later modified his views to being a "Holocaust revisionist." His position now (2022) is that most of the active work of the Jewish genocide was carried out by mobile SS Einsatzgruppen ("task forces") suppressing dissent in German occupied territories. What should have been a data-driven debate, however, led to violent attacks and death threats against Cole by terrorist groups like the Jewish Defence League. In 1998 he changed his name to "David Stein" and began a new life as a "GOP insider" in Hollywood, although he was more of a "fringe character."

In 2013 he was outed by an ex-girlfriend and was kicked out of the "Friends of Abe," a Hollywood GOP group that he was active in. This effectively aligned him with the then "Big Tent" Alt-Right, and led to Cole getting a writing gig at Taki's Magazine. As the Alt-Right became increasingly Jew-obsessed, however, Cole, like many others, distanced himself from the movement. He also was an early Trump sceptic. In fact, apart from his views on the Holocaust, which place him in dissident territory, Cole is merely a Libertarian Conservative.  

In the aftermath of his "outing," he published his view of his story in his book Republican Party Animal: The "Bad Boy of Holocaust History" Blows the Lid Off Hollywood's Secret Right-Wing Underground. From around 2016 or possibly 2017, he also participated in the Savage Hippie Podcast, along with co-hosts Edwin Oslan, a fellow Jew, and Ann Sterzinger, a "Catholic anti-natalist" novelist. Cole and Oslan later fell out after Oslan moved to Los Angeles, leading to the end of the show. Cole claims that Oslan tried to dox an event he was holding with Ann Coulter to antifa. However, there is no reliable source on this story.

In 2020, following Jim Goad's departure from Taki's Mag, Cole was promoted to a more active role, writing The Week That Perished column in addition to his own weekly column. .

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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Affirmative Right and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying it here. He is also featured in Arktos's collection A Fair Hearing: The Alt-Right in the Words of Its Members and Leaders. although he has not identified as Alt-Right since 2018.