What went wrong? - The Manosphere to Alt-Right pipeline
To make sense of the results, you need to analyze where Trumps surge in votes came from. Leeja Miller laid it all out over a year ago.
A couple of years ago, while I was in a role where I had free time, I spent a lot of time on Youtube to learn things, and to just expand my horizons1.
One of the accounts I stumbled on was Leeja Miller, a lawyer who was building a creator ecosystem and ultimately, she left the big firm, started a small firm, and focused on her dual career path.
She brings deep research and analysis to her videos that you would expect from an attorney.
While at times she goes a little too far to the far-left progressive sphere, she still does a LOT of videos on important social issues and trends.
With that out of the way, about a year ago, she did a piece wherein a 25 minute video, she does a good view of the growing path from disaffected young men, into the alt-right (aka MAGA) pipeline.
Indeed, with the results from the recent US Presidential election where the Trump campaign effectively mobilized these lost-boys to capture both the Electoral College, and the Popular vote.
Watch this, and see if you are nodding your head.
Ok, yes, I was just fucking around…
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