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I'm not particularly sympathetic to the MAGA/right coalition, and I agree with many of the systemic and political factors others here have analyzed well. That being said, isn't the most obvious effect which is taking place here the result of left wing progressive politics constant demonizing of white males? It's not like we're a small group of society - we matter and there are a lot of us. Young people are less established in their politics and identity - they had to go somewhere, and cultural/political/media environments have spent most of the time telling them that they are greedy vain loathsome lazy stupid bumbling rapists, despite men and boys falling further and further behind in any number of key factors in that time frame (not to mention skepticism of these progressive claims at face value —that society was mostly fine as-is in the 60s etc and these critiques miss the mark — which I'm sure we're all familiar reading this website).
Mr. Rittenhouse has entered the chat. The Kenosha Kid is back!
Ironically, The Kenosha Kid is a great example of this trend. Who's a law abiding volunteer who wants to do good by his family and his nation supposed to side with if all he gets for that is attempted murder and wide media coverage demonizing him for straightforwardly defending his life?
There is no place in the leftie metanarrative for Kyle. No role except as an enemy. Even though he's exactly the sort of person any political movement should be looking to recruit: an upstanding motivated young man.
This wasn't always the case, especially with progressives.
Normie lefties were convinced for MONTHS that Rittenhouse killed 3 black men in cold blood, hunting them down to execute them cartel style. Till the start of the trial there were many progs - particularly women - who were unaware that the three men shot were white, much less that they had all attacked Rittenhouse.
To an extent I absolve this ignorance due to transmitted media messaging and general unawareness of how guns work. Yet when the base evidence is presented - the three dudes shot were white - and the pivot seamlessly transitions to 'well they were shot because they supported Black Lives Matter' then the only reaction I have is to stoneface and go 'ok that's nice by the way did you see that ludicrous display last night Liverpool always try to walk it in'.
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fellow rhyming username enjoyer
GET OUT OF MY HEAD
Uhhh, how do you pronounce 100?
hunit!
(I wasn't counting the number in the syllable count)
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Isn't this common throughout history? Women support the powers that be. In Saudi arabia women are more muslim. In the Soviet union they were more communist, in the third Reich they were more national socialist. Young men get fed up with the system and women keep supporting the position of those in power. Young men overthrow the government and install a new system. In 80 years women will be virtue signalling how much they love Victor Orban and Trump while young men will be rallying against whatever comes after the populist right.
One of the interesting things about the United States currently is that you can have people who see themselves as rallying against oppressive power by supporting the incumbent President and the nation's various intelligence agencies and the like.
The political divisions in the US of course are imho such that both "sides" have at least some credible basis to perceive themselves as the underdogs (or at least sticking up for the underdog) fighting The Man.
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