Mike Wendling

Turns out I'm sufficiently Extremely Online to already know most of what this book has to say about the toxic stew of ethnonationalism, misogyny and frustrated entitlement that contributed to the already-decaying alt-right and its associated movements (the manosphere, g*merg*ters etc). Nonetheless it's a solid survey of a particular historical moment (2016–17), if occasionally glib and lazy about the non-Democratic left. And undoubtedly these same forces, and the people associated with them who are still standing (adios Milo, Baked Alaska, Cernovich, etc), will keep looking for new ways to repackage reaction as punk for a while yet.… (meer)