About a third through a digital copy right now. As a 21 y/o white failson and former #GamerGate-r most susceptible to the alt-right pathology, I must applaud Nagle for capturing the Trumpian zeitgeist as it unfolded. No "Hackers on Steroids" hysteria of the kind channers delight in mocking here. Her work will no doubt be valuable to historians in the years to come. These culture wars, amid a perfect storm of gerrymandering, dark money, and Democratic incomptence ultimately pushed Republicans over the edge to victory.

I'm not even mad at alt-right CHUDs or Tumblr feminists, so much as I am at the real villains chomping away at the bit to kill democracy. That is, Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi, whose neoliberal leadership made Washington so brazenly corrupt and dysfunctional, who made any real policy change beyond inevitable austerity and tax cuts so impossible, that American minds instead gravitate toward a culture-war politics of nihilism divorced from any talk of policy or reforms.

As repulsive as their faux-ironic racism can get around talks of welfare policy, I don't think most chuds actually want to kill off Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security. That's the monomaniac obsession of Paul Ryan and older, wealthier Teabaggers. Like their Millennial predecessors, Gen Z kids face a very precarious economic situation, and many are turning to drugs or video games to escape one of the worst labor markets in recent memory. With irreverent open minds looking for a "Red Pill" out of this neoliberal Hell, they're more winnable to the socialist cause than you might think. I see Chapo as a positive alternative to the Alt-Right/SJW dichotomy many of these angry young men are so ensnared by.