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ben chambers's avatar

*taps sign*

an entire generation of conservative youth spent their formative years binge watching anti-SJW hatebait, lurking /pol/, irony OD'ing on edgy memes, trolling as a second language, and fantasy-role-posting behind marble bust avatars and we have yet to fully account for its consequences

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Michael Lipkin's avatar

Yeah, you know, I think I read Ross Douthat fairly regularly through Trump I, but I was glancing at some of his columns recently and it just struck me that the right is way, way past that. He had a think about the fractures between "Silicon Valley" and "MAGA populism" during the H1B kerfuffle on Christmas that just seemed downright... quaint compared to the shit in the For You feed every morning.

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