President Donald Trump wants a large nonprofit and academic institution that investigated the “bad” use of DEI.
Elon Musk is trying to wipe out the federal workforce, denounces nonprofits and corrupt media in conspiratorial and virtually inaccurate ways.
Mark Andreessen, a venture capitalist who had a deep impact on administration's employment, cited a grand theory of how Trump can crush the power of the “manager” elite.
And Marco Erez, a 25-year-old administration official, made racist online comments and initially resigned, but was rehired, Musk said.
Everything from Trump's first four weeks ago office shows that his new administration is deeply influenced by what might be called online rights: “Wake Up” Progressive A constant plugin poster united by a desire to fight and defeat.
Complaints about liberal trends in various institutions, including media, nonprofits, civil servants, academia, and more, are nothing new to Republicans or Trump.
But the new Trump administration, and specifically, very online officials like Vice President J.D. Vance, Stephen Miller, Musk, etc., aren't merely complaining. Authorities are now trying to use government tools against these institutions in the hopes of robbing progressives of power and establishing cultural control for conservatives.
This reflects theories, beliefs and obsessions that are prevalent among online rights, and has fallen into great awakening for years, and why it happened and how it reverses. I'm coming up with an explanation about.
Nowadays, these very online people fixations are becoming a US government policy. Trump's anti-DEI executive order, for example, has stamps of online correct opinion influencers Chris Luffo and Richard Hanania.
So, while Trump's first administration was heavily influenced by traditional Republican figures, his second administration is far more influenced by the burgeoning new facility.
What unites online rights: awaken and break their power
Online rights can be said to span a wide range of classes and subcultures. Its members include no names like Erez and billionaires like Mask.
But they are essentially a team fake in combat with progressives. They have been caught up in the “Great Awakening” for years. The left-hand movement of the culture of race, gender and sexuality in the mid- to late 2010s has led many to chill out speeches, risk their careers, risk advanced ideas, feel advanced ideas I did. A policy they believed to be wrong and harmful.
Online right roots go back to Gamergate and Alt-Right, but in the 2010s, even by Republicans were considered somewhat dishonorable. Few prominent figures were openly associated with them, and Trump relied on traditional Republicans for most of his appointees.
But the backlash against progressive governance and cultural forces that took place under Biden's presidency has inflated their ranks – notable people like Vance, Musk and Andreesen openly made mainstream consensus I spurred it to break it. (When Musk bought Twitter in 2022, he abandoned his former leader as a censorious hobby, reinventing the site as an X, making it a more cozy home for the right.)
What attracted people to their rights online was the resilience of progressive power, a desire to understand where that power comes from and how it breaks.
And many people have come to a similar worldview. “Wake Up” Progressive gained power by dominating academia, media, cultural industry, nonprofit organizations, civil servants and more, including many elite institutions in American life.
Some cite higher or middle brow versions of this theory. Others rely on more instinctive and inchoate resembles, such as James Burnham's management class or Curtis Yalbin's writings about “The Cathedral.”
But they know who the enemy is. And it helps explain many of the agenda Trump is introducing. For example, it will dismantle civil servants, threaten investigations into nonprofits, and reduce the “indirect costs” that federal research funds can go to university.
For online rights, these are progressive power-based ones that should be attacked and destroyed, otherwise they will raise the mind again. They believe they are winning the war against the left, for example, by canceling contracts with nonprofit organizations and threatening funds for the university.
Online rights consider Marco Elles' racist postings allowed.
Online rights also know who the ally is. It was a variety of racist posts months ago, including “I was racist before I was cool”, “Normalize Indian hatred”, “I don't”, and more. It was very clear in the saga of Marco Erez, an official on the Mask's Doge team. If both Gaza and Israel are wiped out from the surface of the earth, remember your heart at all. ”
Past administrations (including Trump's first) would have seen him as a clear embarrassment. Initially, the administration appeared to have done the same thing, spurring him to resign.
But for those swimmers online, Erez was engaged in the practice of trolley “shit”; Many young rightists have embraced this culture in recent years, and reporters are skilled at digging up the offensive things they have written and annoyed them.
The latter part, Vance, written in X, was a real problem. “I obviously disagree with some of Erez's posts, but I don't think stupid social media activities should ruin a child's life,” he writes. However, he added: “We shouldn't reward journalists who try to destroy people. To date.”
Certainly, Vance is fully immersed in the online rights culture and knows well enough that the young right online rank is full of racist shit. But in that culture, they are part of the team. Allies in the fight against this arch-focused media (for them, of course, part of a mass of awakened progressive deep state).
“The left has defined the conditions for social annihilation for the past decade,” Rufo wrote in X:
In other words, firing Erez into a racist post would mean playing a media game and giving the media a victory. And it can't be mad.
It is not clear that all Trump's new voters (many of people of color) were embracing the new tolerance of open racism. But if your online rights continue to set new rules, we'll look into whether it's true.
