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[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is the logical outcome of a certain party both pushing an identity of male-dominance based on toxicly masculine characteristics, and who also cozies up to White Supremacist orgs like the Proud Boys.

The GOP is and has always been a fertile recruiting ground for white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups, and the "manosphere" has accelerated the spread of their core rhetoric (which includes Holocaust denialism) geometrically.