A counter-counterculture of right-wing weirdos turned subversiveness against Democratic partisans

Evidence

French scholar Olivier Roy wrote that the globalized world had left the provincial white majority in a state of “cultural anxiety”—a loss of identity, an inability to define their culture. The right found its solution in embracing the digital counter-counterculture and bringing that energy directly into the mainstream conservative movement. And with Trump’s victory in November, the onetime-fringe weirdos were proclaimed the new cultural leaders. After the election, Ian Ward at Politico stated, “It’s not cool or subversive right now to be a Democratic partisan, who are seen as defenders of the status quo. There’s a certain subversiveness to being MAGA.” — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 835

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to Marx’s thesis about subcultural capital and who gets to claim ‘subversiveness’ in the omnivore era. — connects to: Antigovernment politics fused with UFO belief throughout the 1990s — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 47; Countersummits institutionalized into an imitable social forum model — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1123