Breitbart was a fun site, and its no longer is a fun site. It is a boring site that just does the same thing over and over again.
In particular, you will find two main brands of article: the “haha, you’re not even really that liberal, look, you violated your own principles!” and the “actually, we’re much more liberal than you, in fact.”
These are the two main versions of “owning the libs” which you will find all over the MAGAsphere these days. For me, it’s very difficult to see, as I’m old enough to remember when MAGA was about rounding up and deporting tens of millions of people and building a wall with Mexico.
I’m just going to pull a few examples of these two types from the front page at time of writing, you’ll get the thing and then be able to see it forever.
>>Type One: Not as Liberal as You Claim
>>“Antifa City has a border, even though Antifa is against borders.”
>>“Nancy Pelosi has security guards, even though she’s against the cops.”
>>“Antifa isn’t respectful enough to black people.”
>>Type Two: We’re More Liberal Than You
>>“Trump’s military is feminist."
>>“Donald Trump is really respectful of black people.”
>>“We’re on the same side as Trayvon Martin’s mother, whose opinion is really important to us.”
Conclusion
What these gimmicks do is let the idiots who read this tripe feel as though they are “scoring points” against the enemy.
I’m not saying that these things shouldn’t be pointed out. It’s fine to do that. It’s just that this is all they do. They don’t actually promote anything. If they were actually promoting a belief in something, they would be more critical of Trump, and be pressing him in the way that Tucker Carlson criticizes and presses him.
But because they’ve decided to just be blindly supportive of Trump, the only thing they can do is turn it into a game, where it’s all about winning points. But the points are imaginary, and there is no scoreboard, and the entire world is on fire while these people are reading this stuff and saying “hehehe, we got ’em again.”
You didn’t get them. Our team is losing. We are losing pretty much as badly as anyone can possibly lose. We have literally won almost nothing. Things are getting progressively worse under Trump, and the only thing that anyone can say is that they would be getting worse faster under Hillary or Biden. That is true, but it’s a very low standard.
I’m still not against Trump. I think what he did in 2016 was so monumental that there isn’t really anything he could ever do to erase that. I also think he’s a good person who loves America. But he is also ego-driven and kind of acts like a teenager. No real support base was ever built for the Trump agenda, so the void was filled by the likes of Charlie Kirk and this new Breitbart, which basically takes cues from Charlie Kirk.
What these people did was cannibalize certain of Trump’s aesthetics from 2016, and started exclusively applying that to their own agenda. The content is completely different, but clearly, most people cannot see that. You end up with stuff like “oh you don’t support Israel? What a cuck. Are you triggered by my Israeli flag, snowflake?”
I went over some similar ground in my recent review of a zoomer lad’s YouTube video criticizing the current state of the GOP, so read that if you missed it. I want everyone to understand the basic dynamics of what is happening here with the so-called conservative movement. The entire Trump agenda of 2016 is being turned inside out.
This path is going to lead to Dan Crenshaw being the face of the Republican Party.