Chuck Darwin<p>Yarvin had given people a way to articulate a notion that somehow felt subversive to say out loud in America<br>—that history was headed in the wrong direction. </p><p>“Somebody said something earlier that captured it for me,” Laurenson said, <br>just before they had to leave to go to a slightly hush-hush private dinner with Vance and a few others. </p><p>“They said, ‘You can be here and know you’re not alone.’ ”</p><p>People at the conference seemed excited about being in a place where they weren’t alone. </p><p>I skipped most of the talks<br>—which ranged from sessions about confronting the threat of China <br>to the liberal influence on pop culture<br> to “Worker Power.” </p><p>Hawley gave a keynote on the “assault on the masculine virtues,” </p><p>and Cruz offered up a traditional stump speech, evoking Reagan and saying he thought conservatives would soon prevail at the ballot box. </p><p>“I’m pretty sure a lot of the 20-somethings rolled their eyes at that,” Yarvin said to me afterward with a smirk. </p><p>The 20-somethings had a bigger vision.</p><p>Up by the bar every night, hordes of young men, mostly, would descend to drink and bear-hug and spot favorite podcasters and writers. </p><p>You could see <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dave</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rubin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rubin</span></a>, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jack</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Murphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Murphy</span></a>, who hosts a popular New Right–ish YouTube channel <br>and is trying to build a fraternal group of men who believe in <br>“positive masculinity” <br>that he calls the "Liminal Order. "</p><p>Pretty much everyone had the same trimmed beard and haircut<br>—sides buzzed short, the top longer and combed with a bit of gel to one side.</p><p>I didn’t see a single Black person under the age of 50, </p><p>though there were attendees of South Asian and Middle Eastern descent. </p><p>In March, the journalist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeff</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sharlet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sharlet</span></a> <br>(a Vanity Fair contributing editor who covers the American right) <br>tweeted that the <br>🔸“intellectual New Right is a white supremacist project designed to cultivate non-white support,” 🔸</p><p>and he linked it to resurgent nationalist and authoritarian politics around the world: </p><p>🔸“It’s part of a global fascist movement not limited to the anti-blackness of the U.S. &amp; Europe.” 🔸</p><p>Yet♦️ many on the New Right seem increasingly unfazed by accusations that they’re white nationalists or racists. ♦️</p><p>Masters in particular seems willing to goad commentators, <br>believing that the ensuing arguments will redound to his political advantage: </p><p>“Good luck [hitting] me with that,” <br>Masters told the podcaster Alex Kaschuta recently, <br>🔹arguing that accusations of racism had become a political bludgeon used to keep conservative ideas outside the political mainstream. 🔹</p><p>“Good luck criticizing me for saying critical race theory is anti-white.” </p><p>But for all the chatter of looming dystopia, no one I spoke to raised one of the most dystopian aspects of American life: <br>our vast apparatus of prisons and policing. </p><p>Most people seemed more caught up in fighting what they perceived as the cant and groupthink among other members of the political media class, </p><p>or the hypocrisy of rich white liberals who put up Black Lives Matter signs in front of multimillion-dollar homes, </p><p>than they were with the raw experience that has given shape to America’s current racial politics.</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thiel</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Balaji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Balaji</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Srinivasan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Srinivasan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Coinbase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coinbase</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Koch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Koch</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Milo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Milo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yiannopoulis" 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