I genuinely like Ross Douthat. He is generally honest,
and he genuinely tries to make sense of what is going on, most of the time,
even though he
reliably fails to understand what is happening on the right side of the
political spectrum or why the Alt-Right exists.
Then
finally, among men who were promised pliant centerfolds and ended up single
with only high-speed internet to comfort them, the men’s sexual revolution has
curdled into a toxic subculture, resentful of female empowerment in all its
forms.
This is where you find Trump’s strongest (and, yes, strangest) fans. He’s become the Daddy Alpha for every alpha-aspiring beta male, whose mix of moral liberation and misogyny keeps the Ring-a-Ding-Ding dream alive.
There aren’t nearly enough of these fans to win him the election. Steinem’s revolution (Clintonian complications and all) should easily beat Hef’s at the ballot box this year.
But the cultural conflict between these two post-revolutionary styles — between frat guys and feminist bluestockings, Gamergaters and the diversity police, alt-right provocateurs and “woke” dudebros, the mouthbreathers who poured hate on the all-female “Ghostbusters” and the tastemakers who pretended it was good — is likely here to stay. With time and Christianity’s further decline, it could eclipse older culture war battles; in the pop culture landscape, it already does.
Ten years ago, liberals pined for a post-religious right, a different culture war.
Be careful what you wish for.
This is where you find Trump’s strongest (and, yes, strangest) fans. He’s become the Daddy Alpha for every alpha-aspiring beta male, whose mix of moral liberation and misogyny keeps the Ring-a-Ding-Ding dream alive.
There aren’t nearly enough of these fans to win him the election. Steinem’s revolution (Clintonian complications and all) should easily beat Hef’s at the ballot box this year.
But the cultural conflict between these two post-revolutionary styles — between frat guys and feminist bluestockings, Gamergaters and the diversity police, alt-right provocateurs and “woke” dudebros, the mouthbreathers who poured hate on the all-female “Ghostbusters” and the tastemakers who pretended it was good — is likely here to stay. With time and Christianity’s further decline, it could eclipse older culture war battles; in the pop culture landscape, it already does.
Ten years ago, liberals pined for a post-religious right, a different culture war.
Be careful what you wish for.
Douthat simply doesn't
understand that the Alt-Right is not the 60's counter to feminism, we are the nationalist reaction to
conservatism's failure. The
issues that absorb him are sideshows. The Alt-Right is on the rise across the West because
Douthat, and the conservatism he represents as the New York Times's
token conservative, completely failed to conserve the nation.
They will call us fascists. They will call us racists. They will call us Nazis. They will call us sexists. They will call us anti-semitic. They will call us ultra-nationalists. They will call us white supremacists.
And whether those charges are true or not, we don't care. Because we prefer to live in Western civilization, among civilized Western people.
They will call us fascists. They will call us racists. They will call us Nazis. They will call us sexists. They will call us anti-semitic. They will call us ultra-nationalists. They will call us white supremacists.
And whether those charges are true or not, we don't care. Because we prefer to live in Western civilization, among civilized Western people.
Then they fight you - Read more at: https://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/08/then-they-fight-you.html
