Understanding contemporary right-wing politics requires consuming its own media ecosystem

Evidence

My obsession has become a growing gulf between Avi and me. And not just between us—it is intensifying my already deep isolation, cutting me off further from other friends and family. No one I know listens to War Room, and I feel increasingly that it is impossible to understand the new shape of politics without listening to it. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 291

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the diagonalism thesis that understanding the right’s convergence requires engaging its own platforms, echoing earlier chapters on how mirror-world media cannot be grasped from outside.