Yet while I freely acknowledge that there was more racism on the right than I was willing or able to see before the rise of Trump, there has been a distinct change in young right-wing culture.
As I survey the right — especially the young, so-called new right — I see a movement in the grip of some rather simple but powerful cultural forces.
Hatred, combined with masculine insecurity and cowardice, is herding young right-wing men into outright bigotry and prejudice.
To understand the cultural dynamic, I want to introduce you to an obscure online concept, no enemies to the right.
In fact, one of their prime reproofs of what they might call the zombie right, the Reagan right of their parents’ generation, is that it was simply too accommodating.
Persons:
Hatred, they’re, Reagan
Organizations:
Trump