I am sure there is a lot of cross traffic between here and thedonald.win, myself included, although I only lurk there. I've been lucking since before the 2016 election, before reddit even banned the original subreddit.
Since the election there has been a huge number of election fraud posts, and while some of them certainly seem to have merit, there are plenty that don't. As a consequence I see posts that call for "low energy pedes" to leave, or Republicans (that aren't Trump supporters) to leave, etc. I fear that the signal to noise ratio is too low, and it makes it too easy for the MSM to ignore.
I have my own theories about what happened with the election, why, and how, based on what I've read, that I hope are reasonable, but my title question is an important one. It also asks other things. Is the Trump movement growing or shrinking? Are reasonable voices being driven away who really want to sort the fact and fiction? Are we all deluding ourselves?
You have accurately described everyone who joined this war through Gamergate. Six Years ago, if you told me, an avid gamer, that I will be part of a grand movement to save the not only America, but the whole of Mankind from the clutches of globalist evil, I would think you are crazy.
Now? I bet that the people who made those "Gamers are Dead" articles back then regretted generating the spark that ignited gamers all around the world that would lead to Donald Trump's victory.
For the first time, someone told them no. It scared the shit out of them. They got what they wanted eventually, but the horror of people actually standing against them in a way that they couldn't contain shattered something in them.
Worse, all of us kept saying no. The blowback never ended. We kept refusing and they kept pushing. We were supposed to all either die or come on board, but instead we didn't stop resisting, and they have no idea what to do.
That's why I think it really still messes with their heads. They expected to win at some point, either by exhaustion or by coercion. Instead the battle only got larger. The narrative they tell themselves says we should have simply ended, but we didn't. The narrative didn't just seem to be wrong, it seemed to be the opposite of true. We are the embodiment of their own narrative's failure. And when that narrative is promising only utopia, it's a horrific feeling that something is fundamentally wrong about how they see the world, and how they see themselves.
That's probably what keeps causing them to wake up in cold sweats.
The true horror that they don't want to think about is not that they made us, but that we were inevitable from their own actions, and we won't ever go away.