How the controversy of Andrew Tate Trumpism and toxic masculinity combines

Last week, four women who accused the British-American influencer and podcaster Andrew Tate of sexual abuse not to disturb the USA in Romania, where he and his brother Tristan are charged with human trade and an examination of money laundering.

The request of the women came after the Financial Times and cited three people familiar with the matter that US officials, including the Trump Special envoy Richard Gennell, spoke to the Romanian government about the case against the self-enemy podcaster. The crime was recorded in the country because they are exposed to numerous charges, including rape and charges for sexually exploiting crime group (they have contested any misconduct). Grenell said the FT that he had conducted “no significant conversation” with the Foreign Minister of Romania and said: “I support the Tate brothers how it is obvious through my publicly available tweets.”

When you see that members of the Trump administration talk so positively about the shammed podcaster, which is very impaired for the old Right internal net culture dominated by men, shows how the administration smeared with influential figure heads of a dangerous hypermasculine culture. When Paul Ingrassia, a lawyer who represented the Tate, was appointed to the connection of the White House for the Ministry of Justice, it was another meaningful example of the current wave of the politics that rose through the upper level of the administration. It seems to lead everything into a trend that Axios recently refers to “masculinistic maximum”, which is a bit of a sip when you consider that what we are talking about is pretty simple: Conservative men are responsible for the country and are working on shaping it in their own picture. If you have not spent the past decades on social platforms and smartphone screens, you will receive a passport to be a little confused. The ideology that many in Trump World is currently subscribing to, one that is convinced that there is a global cultural war against menPresent Is one that corresponds to the margins of the web, led by hideous bloggers, shameless influencers, violent inclusion and real extremists. And although there are many contours, the lead philosophy is pretty simple.

In the 2010s, a growing number of male users who incubated in extremist online content incubated and immortalized that almost every aspect of modern life was essentially for women and therefore bad. And now they want to turn back the clock socially and politically until they feel that men are finally responsible again.

That is obviously ridiculous. In the 2010s, large, successful progressive movements – legalization of Homo -he, Black Lives Matter, the Me Too movement – were found, and there were real progress in making both the government and companies more women, queer people and people with color. But like the dozens of “canceled” victims of the cultural war, which quickly reset with new companies, new deals and Netflix specials, white men in America were never really in danger of losing their power. But the story that was told online was very different.

Rand areas such as 4chan and Reddit as well as more mainstream platforms such as YouTube and the website previously known as Twitter began to fill with men who wanted to convince other men that the female modernity was the reason why they couldn’t get a girlfriend, could not get a job, could not do anything if they wanted. These rooms have been responsible for dozens of harassment campaigns against prominent women for years. Political online movements such as gamergate and comics gates aim at women in video games and comics. But they also opened the door to a general online war against all women. One of the big rally screams among some Trump supporters was of the choice: “Your body, my choice.”

During the first presidential campaign of President Donald Trump, Republican strategists like Steve Bannon skilfully took these areas of influence. And like a snowball that turned into an avalanche, these obscure digital cults began to merge into a slightly larger one. And with that came a new wave of influencers who preach the miracles of hypermen. Podcasters like Tate and Joe Rogan, Youtubers such as the Nelk Boys and Digital Media brands such as Barstool Sports have dealt in male digital culture and increasingly trumpism. There were a whole part of white, male online influencers who were invited to Trump’s inauguration last month. And this rise of new masculinity is a serious existential problem for Democrats that extends far beyond Trump. We have joined a world in which the concept of being a “man” is involved in reactionary right -wing policies. Last November, Outlets asked all over the country whether “Die Linke needed a Joe Rogan”, but that does not fully record the problem. We should ask ourselves: “How do we bring men to the left”, full stop.

No real answers were offered at this front, so the rest of the society for the rogans and deeds and other suppliers of the masculinist maximum of the Internet apply more and more susceptible to rogans and other providers.