The cool thing about the Internet is that if you’re fan of klezmer music or gothic literature in rural Iowa, you can find your people. The uncool thing is that this has also evidently worked for nutbag fascists.
Julian Sanchez
Unlike pretty much every other explanation of rising right-wing populism - inflation, immigration, whatever - “it’s the internet, stupid” has the virtue of predicting a continuous worldwide increase almost everywhere at once, which ended up being basically what happened
