This past week, images of Greg Bovino, the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, spread rapidly across social media as he appeared in Minneapolis flanked by federal agents and shouting orders at protesters. Moving through snow-covered streets, Bovino wore an olive wool, double-breasted overcoat with epaulettes, brass buttons and pointed applied cuffs. Online critics described it as a “Nazi cosplay coat,” and California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press account on X called it “Nazi-coded.” Yet while Bovino’s coat shares visual similarities with certain Nazi uniforms — including the German M40 overcoat worn by Kriegsmarine officers — it belongs to a much...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
