Coalition Of The Aggrieved Male

Created
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 00:30
Updated
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 00:30
Their reasons are not all meritless On the topic of the sort of “Hey, watch this!” idiots who’d run off when told to join the new Confederacy, The Bulwark cautions: WHEN 23-YEAR-OLD GAMER ADIN ROSS presented Donald Trump with a Rolex watch in a first-of-its-kind livestreamed interview on the platform Kick Monday, a tiny subset of the internet descended into blows over whether it was a campaign finance violation or not. The rest of the approximately 600,000 people watching thought it was hilarious and cool.  And that, unfortunately, is a major problem for Democrats—the majority of whom were likely oblivious to the whole episode.  Ross, who boasts 1.3 million followers, is part of a cohort of young hyperonline men who promote an unapologetically MAGA aesthetic and culture. He is a sycophant of the legendary king of the manosphere, Andrew Tate, known equally for his overt misogyny and the charges he faces for rape and human trafficking.  These clowns are heirs to Gamergate, dubbed the “Barstool Sports generation” by Harvard youth pollster John Della Volpe. They’ve “moved from online outrage about female game designers to mobilizing politically for the first time when they saw a kindred spirit in Trump during his 2016 run,” writes Ilyse Hogue. Trump and his allies are trying to mobilize these sad, young men (600,000 plus) to vote this November. Hogue warns: This coordinated effort is geared to do one thing: rewire social permissions so young men can feel good about voting for a convicted felon and a man found liable for sexual abuse. And so far, it…