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The Therapeutic Culture of Populism
A lot of people on the right are saying, if we can't beat them, join them. And that includes for race, right? If you're going to reduce politics down to racial grievances and demands for power over others, well then what the right is doing with white identity politics. I think there's a vibe more than an ideology at work in so much of this. There's a reason why some evangelicals defending Andru Tate the other day. Okay, Andru Tate is repulsive, sexually-liberty pagan,. But there's also a vibe that comes through that I think does something to mobilize these folks.