This article discusses the ongoing wave of radicalization in the right, noting how it is more illiberal than the previous wave.

While the anti-SJW community was spearheaded by classical liberals like Carl “Sargon of Akkad” Benjamin...

I think part of the reason this wave is more illiberal is that the classical liberal resistance to radlibs failed so miserably. There has been a sort of informal, ongoing "autopsy" of the failure, and it includes things like blaming troon kids on live-and-let-live attitudes toward adult behavior.

while only 6 in 10 boys aged 16 and 17 had heard of the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, 8 in 10 had watched Tate’s content

This disparity indicates radicalization of views but political inattentiveness. These young males need to start engaging with politics lest they be taken for a ride by grifters.

Another much overlooked effect of the heavy deplatforming since 2016 is that more moderate conservatives have been forced into the same spaces as people much further to their right, and now share the same platforms (

I've talked about this here before. You have normie conservatives thrown into alt-tech ghettos like this, and they re seeing radical stuff that mainstream conservativism hid from them for years.

Old heads like Maher have good reason to be concerned: a poll last year showed that nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose allowing “trans women” to compete in womens sports. The majority say a person’s gender identity is determined by birth, a number that has actually been increasing since 2017.

This is in line with what I said here, about the left being ideologically possessed about troonery so they won't give it up easily. https://scored.co/c/KotakuInAction2/p/16b5la1RFJ/why-the-left-is-so-insane-on-the/c/4TsavvBuzoG

I see no reason to believe 2024 will bring anything but another Democrat Presidency, with little change in the governing philosophy.

Oof. Keith is just casually slaying Trumpcels and Roncels. Maybe I'll dig up why he thinks Biden will win later.

Had Scott Adams made these comments a decade ago, he would no doubt have been roundly condemned and cancelled. In 2023, while Adams received a predictable backlash from the mainstream media, there was little condemnation among conservatives, and his stock only seemed to grow amongst the broader online right.

I wonder how much of this is the ripple effects of the emergence of the alt-right. Even though it's been squashed, its ideas still permeate the discourse. Everyone knows about black crime now, for example.

Whether it can achieve what the last wave of radicalisation couldn’t - transform into meaningful and lasting political change - is the big question.

This isn't "The Big One" yet. It will be difficult for a Trumpian figure to harness it and dissipate it, but there are already signs of how it's going to flame out. Elon is still censoring Twitter. Rumble has anti-hate speech rules. The line between mainstream and politics has narrowed but not been broken. There will be a controlled margin, guard rails containing the radicalization.

The e-celebs will become sneakily centralized by some sort of talent management firm, similar to what's happened on the left. They will only have the appearance of decentralization. The rise and fall of Nick Fuentes will be a microcosm of how the e-celebs play out. They will gain a following by sounding radical, only use it to grift, and then flame out in a blaze of catty bickering, behind the scenes drama, sex scandals, etc.

That said, I don't think this wave will be a complete failure. It will move things forward. Perhaps the following wave will be The Big One.

Every time I hear about Tate it's from the left who's obsessed with him.
He has the same energy as the things middle aged women usually watch - daytime soaps, talk shows like maury, etc.

I can't decide if I'm out of touch or whether it's accurate to say the obsession with him is mostly from the left.