A market emerged for formerly discredited aristocratic and antidemocratic ideologies

Evidence

As angry men looked for ways to unmoor society from its liberal tenets of inclusivity, a market emerged for a range of once-discredited ideologies. While Peterson introduced young men to Jungian mysticism, the New Right found inspiration in the aristocratic, antidemocratic rhetoric of Romanian American Costin Alamariu, better known as Bronze Age Pervert (BAP). His philosophy, gilded with racism and misogyny, championed a return to classical Greek ideals of the strong dominating the weak. “The only right government,” he declared, “is military government, and every other form is both hypocritical and destructive of true freedom.” — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 803

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the thesis about internet-collapsed distribution and the revival of fringe ideologies as status signals. — connects to: Anti-dynasty sentiment drove adoption of estate and inheritance taxes after 1885 — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3248; Institutional prestige can eventually embrace once-reviled bad taste — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 240