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Milo Yiannopoulos, the revolting bête noire of the Alt-Right, a person who is such a reactionary American that he's British, seems to have made a critical mistake. Surely, conventional wisdom holds, even Republicans will balk at being asked to equate liberty with child molestation?
As onetime conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes put it, "Anti-Semitism, ok. Racism, ok. Alt-right, ok. Advocacy of pedophilia? Is THAT the bridge too far?"
Along with longtime Breitbart cohort Steve Bannon, the foppish Yiannopoulos the co-author of the Alt-Right's unofficial manifesto has until now been extremely successful in selling the various intellectual justifications for Trumpism.
In particular, he's been one of the main voices pushing the idea that Donald Trump's most lurid and offensive behaviors are "conservative," because they represent a front in the war against speech limits and political correctness.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/matt-taibbi-milo-yiannopoulos-isnt-going-away-w468012?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=022117_12
If you read the comments after the RS article you'll find people are still defending this pervert.
kysrsoze
(6,019 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)MrPurple
(985 posts)Matt Taibbi is great
MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)A lot of his pieces were just repetitions of stuff he saw on Twitter. It's my understanding that he had, like, 100 people doing his work for him.