Trump’s rise mainstreamed a new hyper-online style of far-right provocation.

Evidence

Trump’s victory undeniably brought some of the most provocative and transgressive figures from the counter-counterculture into mainstream visibility. These men—and they were overwhelmingly men—represented a new breed of far-right actors distinct from the millenarian Christian sects, militia groups, and male-centric organizations like the Promise Keepers that had once occupied the fringes of conservative politics. They were hyper-online provocateurs who sought to reframe the right as culturally savvy and cool by weaponizing media literacy and internet culture. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 442

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘reframe the right as culturally savvy and cool’ move is a status/history reversal typical of the counter-counterculture Marx frames earlier. — connects to: The 2016 Trump era mainstreamed conspiracy-peddling anti-immigrant and white-supremacist groups — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 30