Post

Knowing these guys a bit, I’ll slightly disagree. They were always regressive, and don’t actually have enough fluency to have a genuine political POV. This is why bullshit narratives that flatter them, like Yarvin-style neoreaction, could easily sway them. Then, rising worker power radicalized them.

This just underscores for me that Obama knew how to handle these guys in a way that neither Biden, nor Clinton, really grasped. He fed their egos, gave them some photo-ops, buttered them up in the press. A little bit of glad-handing can go a long way