David French

And this is you're blowing up low level drug mules, but you're pardoning the drug lord.

And all the only consistent theme is they had friends on the inside.

They have friends in the administration.

And Andrew Tate is no exception.

The Barron Trump part of it is interesting because it really does sort of prove the lie to the notion that these guys are speaking to just struggling men, struggling young men.

Look, there are people out there like that.

No question.

I've met them.

I interact with them all the time.

But there's an awful lot of people who love them, some Andrew Tate and other Manosphere influencers, just because they're assholes and like calls to like.

These people are seeing in Andrew Tate, they're seeing in other Manosphere figures the kind of person that they are.

and want to be.

And so this is not a thing where you look at an Andrew Tate and say, well, it's a shame that this person speaking to the disaffected and alienated youth has so many problems.

I mean, that's the Tucker Carlson spin.

Even though he has personal problems, his message

No, no, no, no, no.

What these people are doing is it's like calling to like.

They are sort of sending out this call of the wild, a beacon for all your angry, you know, exploitive, vicious men, and then urging them to double down on all the worst elements of their nature.

And this is a part of the Manosphere story.

Part of it is struggling young men reaching out, but a part of it is just assholes calling out to assholes.