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Losing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn Right
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I remember liberals getting caught completely off guard around 2015 when altright types started saying outright racist things without shying away. Liberals had gotten too used to Glenn Beck trying to do wacky chalkboard stuff, or Ben O'Reilly being a curmudgeon. Now here comes these younger internet goofballs who don't shy away from being called racist. Their protocols stopped working, plus alt-right types were saying a semblance of correct things by criticizing capital. Really poor unstructured and racist criticisms, but sometimes with a co-opted leftist message like fascists always do.
You're right, liberals had no choice but to dismiss everything neo-fascists were saying.
somehow calling him Ben makes him seem so much less evil than Bill
I honestly forgot his name and took a gamble
It's easy to remember since he and
are basically the same guy
Looking back I think I had Ben Reilly on my brain. Spiderman's clone.
The other difference is those prior conservatives still cared about having a seat at the respectable institutions. The alt right not only didn’t care about those institutions, they actively despised them, so there was no concern about not getting in the club.