After accomplishing nothing, the People’s Convoy is leaving the Washington, D.C. area. https://t.co/2O1hNlljam
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) March 28, 2022
Leaving the day before April Fools’ Day, probably for good reason:
Three weeks after the so-called “People’s Convoy” landed in Washington, D.C., the group is calling it quits after accomplishing nothing except injuring residents and circling the Beltway.
Co-organizer Mike Landis announced Sunday night that the group would pack its things up in the coming days and drive back to California…
Landis further said that convoy-goers who remain posted up in Hagerstown, Maryland—who have experienced many freezing nights while camped out in the small town an hour and a half north of D.C. proper—will enjoy a southerly route back to California. “We’re gonna take a little more southern route, so it’s a little warmer than this,” he said.
He pledged to “come back to finish this job” in the metro area at some unspecified time, which seems highly unlikely as their crowd dwindles.
The announcement comes after lead organizer Brian Brase fled Hagerstown again over the weekend amid continued splintering within the group…
During its final week in Hagerstown, the group became increasingly desperate, with two of its medics leaving and factions emerging between those who believed the convoy was “corrupt[ed]” and those who thought it wasn’t. Morale was also dropping fast, and it appeared that the $2 million raised was drying up quickly, as organizers increasingly tightened the restrictions on how and when fuel reimbursements would be distributed to truckers.
Brase, the group’s de facto leader, had previously told The Daily Beast the convoy could go on “indefinitely.” “This is a process that we are hoping to do diplomatically,” Brase said. “We’re in it for the long haul.”
“We could go indefinitely, right now, if that’s what it takes,” he concluded. “We are not going away.”
(They are absolutely, positively going away.)
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