Spencer could just stay in his hometown of Whitefish, which would be super convenient.

Unfortunately for Covington, he will never get a chance to see this plan come to fruition, and not just because it’s ridiculous and even few white supremacists take it seriously. Covington died days before that blog post, on July 14, 2018 — an end to a lifetime of hatred and grifting. Covington spent the majority of his life devoted to the tenets of National Socialism, a poisonous ideology that destroyed all of his closest relationships.

In his younger days Covington wanted to be an Army Ranger, but couldn’t pass the entrance requirements. Instead, he was assigned to the 14th Infantry Division and sent to Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. Although other members of his infantry division endedup in Vietnam, Covington never saw combat. Instead, he was caught distributing pro-Nazi pamphlets and ordered to see the base psychiatrist. He was discharged in 1972 after being diagnosed with paranoid personality disorder.

After the short stint in the U.S. Army he set his sights on aiding the military of white-ruled Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The thought of being a mercenary in a white supremacist African nation must have been tantalizing to Covington, but according to contemporaneous letters he sent his parents he was assigned work as a file clerk. Eventually even the Rhodesian military had their fill of Covington, and he was kicked out.

In the late ’70s Covington, back in the states, led the North Carolina chapter of the National Socialist Party of America. It was members of that