More broadly, people who tend towards the "alt-right" seem to be getting increasingly nutty these days. I even see it on this forum.

Because the "alt-right" was always just a reaction.

In 2013, the Right was in shambles. Obama had been easily re-elected, and all neoconservativism seemed to offer was a losing forever war against Islam abroad, and a losing forever war against homosexuality at home.

And then 2014 happened and Woke was born. Michael Brown and Elliot Rodger and GamerGate all happened practically back-to-back, and liberals on Tumblr started saying "We're tired of Obama's centrist bullshit and we want a great wave of equity and reform," and it spread out from there to every corner of the Internet and then into real life.

And the alt-right was an immediate reaction to Woke. It was "Okay, we don't even know what we're for anymore, but we sure as fuck know what we're against, and this is it, right here."

Well, now it's twelve years later. Woke is kinda dead, the Left is playing defense and now they're just reacting; and the president the alt-right helped get elected is a magnificent fuckup who's failing in every possible way a president can fail.

Of course they're going crazy. There's nowhere to go but crazy. They don't have any unifying principles and their common enemy is on the back foot, so now all they can do is rant and rave about demons.

But, not to worry. We're gonna have a couple Democratic wave years, and then they can go back to condemning the politicians in power and they'll seem somewhat unified and coherent again.

More broadly, people who tend towards the "alt-right" seem to be getting increasingly nutty these days. I even see it on this forum.

Because the "alt-right" was always just a reaction.

In 2012, the Right was in shambles. Obama had been easily re-elected, and all neoconservativism seemed to offer was a losing forever war against Islam abroad, and a losing forever war against homosexuality at home.

And then 2014 happened and Woke was born. Michael Brown and Elliot Rodger and GamerGate all happened practically back-to-back, and liberals on Tumblr started saying "We're tired of Obama's centrist bullshit and we want a great wave of equity and reform," and it spread out from there to every corner of the Internet and then into real life.

And the alt-right was an immediate reaction to Woke. It was "Okay, we don't even know what we're for anymore, but we sure as fuck know what we're against, and this is it, right here."

Well, now it's twelve years later. Woke is kinda dead, the Left is playing defense and now they're just reacting; and the president the alt-right helped get elected is a magnificent fuckup who's failing in every possible way a president can fail.

Of course they're going crazy. There's nowhere to go but crazy. They don't have any unifying principles and their common enemy is on the back foot, so now all they can do is rant and rave about demons.

But, not to worry. We're gonna have a couple Democratic wave years, and then they can go back to condemning the politicians in power and they'll seem somewhat unified and coherent again.