Among the attractions at the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) conference being held in Phoenix, Arizona this weekend is an opportunity for attendees to get their picture taken in front of a re-creation of the tent where founder Charlie Kirk was murdered.The four-day event, called "America Fest" is the firs...
The american right wing is essentially tens of millions of people formed up together around various personality influencers that they like.
When you eliminate the influencer, you scatted some of that right wing into the winds and if they do not land on another right wing influencer the right essentially loses traction and control over them. Their views slide out of alignment with the rest of the right as they start thinking for themselves (however wrongly) and no longer have someone else injecting thoughts into them. This causes conflict within the right as views become less unified.
These influencers have replaced news channels, radio, and newspapers in people’s daily diet of bullshit. The thing is though, you couldn’t destroy a newspaper or a news channel in the past. They didn’t die overnight because one newscaster that everyone liked left the channel or paper.
These modern newspapers can die, and it takes many years to build them up in the first place.
You can’t kill an idea, or a strong ideological movement. But you can kill a cult of personality.
The modern right can be killed, in a way that they have been trying to kill communism since Marx’s day and never could.
Yes exactly. It’s actually starting to make new-media look very tenuous for them. What happens if class war gets really heavy? They won’t have influencers because they’ll be toast and it takes years to build them up.
All other things are structured as organisations that are not reliant upon one person’s entertaining persona. If these personas die or get spooked enough the result is a significant loss of influence unlike anything that has been possible in the past.
It’s not going to stop people being right wing but it’s going to stop the right wing being coordinated and united in thought which creates a whole mess for them.
I also haven’t really seen any repercussions for Kirk or Luigi. Nobody gives a shit about them, including the right and their crocodile tears. There’s that whole Trump antifa designated terrorism thing but I’m pretty sure he was going to do that anyway so I don’t think it’s actually been caused by it.
my two thesis that relate to this: #1 everything is a fandom now. #2 the WWEification of american politics