I wrote a diatribe on how this is a misunderstanding of Brooks’ point, and how it’s perception and not reality that matters when understanding the cultural shift in conservative hatred

Then I realized I was actually just agreeing with this article and that it really is simple and reductive: they just love to hate and their propaganda machine has expertly leveraged the explosion of communications tech to do that effectively. And that the biggest big money players have all the motive and opportunity in the world to collaborate on that propaganda.

So yeah it doesn’t matter if leftists use cringey jargon to signal their white saviorship to each other; that’s always been happening. What matters is the propagandization of everything by bad actors. What matters are literal fascists