Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan and the Proud Boys: How the fragility of the male ego fuels the far-right
Authoritarians know how to play on the gender anxieties of insecure men, building up an army of bitter chumps
By AMANDA MARCOTTE

The Proud Boys had another rally in California over the weekend, and a telling moment was clipped and shared by Ron Filipkowski, a lawyer turned chronicler of the far-right. One speaker, armed with a bullhorn, pointed to a group of Proud Boys and declared, they "got some single real men over here looking for some housewives." The men in the clip then joined together for a photo, flashing the "OK" symbol that has been appropriated as a way for white supremacists to signal each other while also — always — trolling the ...

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