@victorgijsbers Vance is for sure, but maybe not Tate specifically. I'm not sure why you can't read that off him very clearly. Rubio, no he has nothing to do with it.
@victorgijsbers That's hard to explain. Media aimed at young men for self-improvement, dating and other stuff. Some of it falls into what some people call the "manosphere". A lot of it is Joe Rogan-adjacent.
What I find fascinating about Signal gate is that it shows how obsessed these guys are, even in private, with the possibility that somebody is taking advantage of them.
For Trumpists, if you're helping someone without getting paid for it, you're a sucker. It is physically repulsive to them.
This is the immature attitude of people who are incapable of love and friendship.
And it's time for me to reread Erich Fromm, because this totally fits his analysis of the authoritarian personality.