It is bananas, and this pipeline isn't even purely alt-right, even though it leads into a lot of bonkers alt-right rhetoric and talking points. My mother (65 years old, white, cis-het woman, Swedish) has always been pretty liberal. She's a nurse, with an education, though when I was little she changed gears and went into botany instead. She was always a bit crunchy, and I think that was the "open door" necessary for all this ridiculous propaganda to be let in.

When I grew up, she always had LGBTQ+ friends, like her closest friend is a lesbian potter/bus driver. Wonderful woman. Now she posts homo-and-transphobic propo videos on her facebook page, spread PragerU bullshit, and all sorts of other ridiculous things.

Don't get me wrong, she was never an unproblematic person, and even without all this weird alt-right radical propo I'd still not be in touch with her but I just don't understand how her personal moral values can have been subverted so.