I think the sad thing is though that so many in today’s fascist movement are essentially descended from these two types of guys. Guys who would’ve been sort of left-wing in the 2000s, if only just aesthetically, and liked the idea of being political but didn’t have much to offer beyond “the government sucks,” who were vaguely angry at the world with no idea why and had nothing going right for them yet saw themselves as superior to everyone around them, eventually getting pulled down the right wing conspiracy rabbit hole since it hits so many of their buttons: making them feel superior that they’ve hit upon some secret knowledge, explaining their anger to them, and being extremely contrarian. And then on the other side internet forum debatelords who are really nerdy and extremely embarassed about it but are fundamentally nice guys who are just so socially inept that nothing ever goes right for them and the whole experience of living just creates a huge amount of shame and so they develop these weird power fantasies that are oddly sexual to deal with it. Also they’re obsessed with ww2 and the Nazis and this interest eventually moves from nerdy historical interest to admiration.