Trumpism was the political culmination of the counter-counterculture begun at Vice

Evidence

The Trumpist movement, with its media savviness and disdain for traditional morality, represented the political culmination of the counter-counterculture that began with Gavin McInnes at Vice in 2001. But unlike McInnes’s predictions, this new right had yet to become cool. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 434

The growing cultural differences moved American politics away from policy disagreements such as social security privatization, military spending, and civil liberties. After the Obama years, the binary was recentered between forces of inclusive liberalism and vengeful illiberalism. The Trumpist movement, with its media savviness and disdain for traditional morality, represented the political culmination of the counter-counterculture that began with Gavin McInnes at Vice in 2001. But unlike McInnes’s predictions, this new right had yet to become cool. The Trump victory felt like a hostile takeover. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 434

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends Marx’s earlier counter-culture/counter-counterculture framework from prior chapters of this book — a key thread for tracing the four-period structure.
• QUESTION: Marx says the new right ‘had yet to become cool’ — worth chasing whether subsequent years changed that verdict and what that means for his thesis.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 434