Sublime

for the evangelical left, with humor as with everything else, if it’s not for everyone then it’s not for anyone. The insistence is on universalism and inclusion regardless of context. This shrill admonition as to what is and isn’t fair grounds for humor is precisely what fuels trolls. Loudly announcing that certain subjects will provoke a reaction,

Jim Goad,

This led to the November 2016 phenomenon of anguish signaling. It allowed those who genuinely felt unsafe, who no longer felt themselves surrounded by the unanimous consensus that they viewed as their social backdrop, to regain some sense of stability. By having the displays be as intense and public as possible, it let the true believers recognize

“The Proud Boys.”

By 2015 it was Donald Trump who had once again melded the combative Rothbardian style to Buchananite ideology. Trump did not simply defeat Jeb Bush; he humiliated him and his family on a personal level. Ditto Ted “Your father shot JFK” Cruz, and Marco “Google ‘gay rumors’” Rubio. Many in the thinking class assume Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing,

This more than anything feels like the prevailing pathology of men in this cohort. They feel small. They are looking for a way to get their power back. They do not deserve that power, obviously, but they do feel entitled to it. And women, to an extent, are enabling it. They are enabling it in the kind of sex they are having, in asking for things th

For instance, a therapist may discourage an autistic child from spinning the wheels of a toy car, instead redirecting the child to make his car go vroom (because vrooming is prosocial for cars?).