The cracks within some right-wing subcultures are starting to show as they fray with President Trump’s agenda, according to a new analysis in the New York Times by columnist Michelle Goldberg.In her column, Goldberg made her case by singling out recent comments by right-wing podcast host Alex Kaschuta, who said that “the vibe is shifting” against conservatives as “the cumulative IQ of the right is looking worse than the market.”As Goldberg notes, Kaschuta’s podcast “Subversive” is known to be a part of the “weird right-wing internet subcultures and mainstream conservatism. She hosted men’s rights activists and purveyors of ‘scientific’ racism, neo-reactionary online personalities with handles like ‘Raw Egg Nationalist.’” Now, Goldberg observes that “[Kaschuta] abandoned the [MAGA] movement,” and she is not alone. “Several people who once appeared to find transgressive right-wing ideas scintillating are having second thoughts as they watch Donald Trump’s administration put those ideas into practice,” she penned.ALSO READ: US now ‘most dysfunctional and unfree political system’ in industrialized world: expertAnother notable right-wing name questioning Trump was philosophy Professor Nathan Cofnas, whom Goldberg notes is a “self-described ‘race realist’ fixated on group differences in I.Q.” and who recently wrote on X that “All over the world, almost everyone with more than half a brain is looking at the disaster of Trump (along with Putin, Yoon Suk Yeol, et al.) and drawing the very reasonable conclusion that right-wing, anti-woke parties are incapable of effective governance.”Goldberg opined, “It is too early to know what these small cracks in the dissident right mean and whether they presage more substantial defections. They suggest to me, however, that not everyone can sustain the level of cognitive dissonance necessary to rationalize away this administration’s destructiveness.”She claimed people felt “pressured” into dishonesty because it was a reaction “against wokeness.”She ended her column saying, “Irving Kristol famously said that neoconservatives were liberals who’d been ‘mugged by reality.’ Maybe soon we’ll need a similar word for the right wingers who can’t stand to live in the world they helped build.”
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