Trump doesn’t even post there,” Sommer notes. Meanwhile, “it really does seem like TRUTH Social is now going to be dead in the water. Meanwhile, some dark webbers are finding their allies on the right are turning against them Rubin, who is gay, recently came under attack from several conservative outlets and members of his audience for his and his husband’s use of a surrogate to build their family.Įlsewhere on the podcast, Sommer and co-host Kelly Weill discuss how Elon Musk’s successful bid for Twitter is galvanizing the right, raising the prospect that some of their favorite characters like Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes and Milo Yiannopoulos might get their accounts back.
They’ve “created this groundswell that is absolutely affecting policy,” Fisher says, pointing out that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ own press secretary is now parroting the leaders of the movement. Specifically, the right’s language around Critical Race Theory and the lies about Disney “grooming” children can directly be traced back to dark webbers Christopher Rufo (whom the Times profiled this week) and James Lindsay. “These people claim to be lifelong Democrats, some of them say that they were Bernie Sanders supporters and they’ve not had a nice thing to say about a single Democratic politician or liberal commentator or liberal idea in the last six years… I think they’re more defined by what they’re against rather than what they’re for,” Fisher says, adding, “a lot of these people are anti-left, all the things they see on the left are things that are ‘threatening Western civilization,’ which is why they latch onto people like Tulsi Gabbard, somebody who’s nominally a Democrat… but for the most part seems to be playing toward the MAGA right audience.”Īs Fever Dreams co-host Will Sommer points out, this group’s strand of thinking-which focuses on the excesses of the left, particularly in academia-has now gone from being chatter on Twitter to fueling so many of the national culture wars.
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