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Clickbait’s destructive legacy

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Rise and Fall of the Alt-Right

The left has gained a kind of cultural supremacy. And as a result, the web became a more transgressive space and that empowered the right because being transgressive is just about attacking whatever the dominant culture is. I really do think the road to extremism for so many people began from a very non-ideological place...and then they're suddenly waging a heroic battle for Western civilization.

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