Andrew Prokop

This is something that had spread among the kind of conspiratorial online right that the government was sitting on all these files that will prove that Jeffrey Epstein, the sex trafficker who died in 2019, had blackmail material on prominent Democrats and celebrities. And she ended up trying to make a big splash out of this and handing material on Epstein to online right influencers.

This is something that had spread among the kind of conspiratorial online right that the government was sitting on all these files that will prove that Jeffrey Epstein, the sex trafficker who died in 2019, had blackmail material on prominent Democrats and celebrities. And she ended up trying to make a big splash out of this and handing material on Epstein to online right influencers.

This is something that had spread among the kind of conspiratorial online right that the government was sitting on all these files that will prove that Jeffrey Epstein, the sex trafficker who died in 2019, had blackmail material on prominent Democrats and celebrities. And she ended up trying to make a big splash out of this and handing material on Epstein to online right influencers.

And it turned out there was absolutely nothing new in those documents, and it ended up being a total embarrassment.

And it turned out there was absolutely nothing new in those documents, and it ended up being a total embarrassment.

And it turned out there was absolutely nothing new in those documents, and it ended up being a total embarrassment.

But there's also many more serious policies and issues that reflect this influence. I'd say that one through line uniting a lot of what the new Trump administration has done is this unified effort to kind of attack what they see as the power centers of progressivism in an effort to roll back wokeness and what they see as progressive cultural dominance.

But there's also many more serious policies and issues that reflect this influence. I'd say that one through line uniting a lot of what the new Trump administration has done is this unified effort to kind of attack what they see as the power centers of progressivism in an effort to roll back wokeness and what they see as progressive cultural dominance.

But there's also many more serious policies and issues that reflect this influence. I'd say that one through line uniting a lot of what the new Trump administration has done is this unified effort to kind of attack what they see as the power centers of progressivism in an effort to roll back wokeness and what they see as progressive cultural dominance.

So you see that in things like funding cutoffs to universities. universities' limits on their research dollars. And you see it in policies aimed at threatening investigations of nonprofits and corporations and colleges that use affirmative action or DEI policies that the administration doesn't like. It's basically a whole set of different issues.

So you see that in things like funding cutoffs to universities. universities' limits on their research dollars. And you see it in policies aimed at threatening investigations of nonprofits and corporations and colleges that use affirmative action or DEI policies that the administration doesn't like. It's basically a whole set of different issues.

So you see that in things like funding cutoffs to universities. universities' limits on their research dollars. And you see it in policies aimed at threatening investigations of nonprofits and corporations and colleges that use affirmative action or DEI policies that the administration doesn't like. It's basically a whole set of different issues.

These are folks who use the word woke and don't define it, which makes it tricky to pin down what they're attacking exactly. But you just ran through a list of things, including universities, including certain sectors of the government. And the attack aimed at these places is what exactly? These guys say... You're doing what wrong?

These are folks who use the word woke and don't define it, which makes it tricky to pin down what they're attacking exactly. But you just ran through a list of things, including universities, including certain sectors of the government. And the attack aimed at these places is what exactly? These guys say... You're doing what wrong?

These are folks who use the word woke and don't define it, which makes it tricky to pin down what they're attacking exactly. But you just ran through a list of things, including universities, including certain sectors of the government. And the attack aimed at these places is what exactly? These guys say... You're doing what wrong?

So I view the online right as essentially an alliance of posters with varying different interests and policy priorities. But they were kind of united in what they saw as combat against the woke. This shared resentment of what these online right people saw as progressive cultural dominance. In Trump's first term, the online right was kind of disreputable. They were viewed as sort of weirdos.

So I view the online right as essentially an alliance of posters with varying different interests and policy priorities. But they were kind of united in what they saw as combat against the woke. This shared resentment of what these online right people saw as progressive cultural dominance. In Trump's first term, the online right was kind of disreputable. They were viewed as sort of weirdos.

So I view the online right as essentially an alliance of posters with varying different interests and policy priorities. But they were kind of united in what they saw as combat against the woke. This shared resentment of what these online right people saw as progressive cultural dominance. In Trump's first term, the online right was kind of disreputable. They were viewed as sort of weirdos.

They weren't in the halls of power in the Republican Party. But there was a real shift that happened after Trump lost the 2020 election and under the Biden administration. When more people who had... You know, some misgivings, some qualms about progressive cultural issues, about the Great Awokening, felt freed up to focus on that more and became more open about being resentful about this.

They weren't in the halls of power in the Republican Party. But there was a real shift that happened after Trump lost the 2020 election and under the Biden administration. When more people who had... You know, some misgivings, some qualms about progressive cultural issues, about the Great Awokening, felt freed up to focus on that more and became more open about being resentful about this.