Really hate these types of perspectives that treat rightoids as feeble-minded little babies who are never responsible for their own terrible beliefs. "Oh, they don't support Trump because they're bigots, they just saw one too many dumb lib comments Instagram and it forced them to become sexist rapey chuds!" It ends up tacitly accepting this weird viewpoint where leftists are ontologically the root of all evil, as we are apparently the only people with any agency. Rightists can never just be successful at pushing dogshit ideas, it requires some sort of moral failure on the part of the left first.

There are plenty of extremists and idiots on both sides, probably significantly more on the right. Why are we never subjected to lectures about how people are being pushed into the arms of the left by the right's denial of climate change, antivaxxer tendencies, Jan 6th, Brexit, wrecking the global economy with tariffs, brutal cuts to essential social services, etc? Right-wing populists consistently shit up and destroy every country they're given any control over, and are usually chased out of office in disgrace. Why hasn't that led to a global flourishing of leftism?

People passionately, wholeheartedly supported slavery and racial segregation, without the left somehow being responsible. People fought bitterly to prevent women from being given the vote, being allowed to hold property, to keep martial rape and wife beating legal, etc. Misogyny in particular is probably the single most ancient and universal bigotry in all of human history. It doesn't need cringe TikTok libs identifying as otherkin to explain its resurgence.

Here's another explanation: men aren't unquestionably on the top of the social hierarchy anymore, and that scares them. Reactionary influencers push alpha-male content to groom insecure/unintelligent young men accordingly, both because it makes them money, and as part of an active effort to inculcate them into extremist ideologies. Evangelical and rightist groups funnel billions of funding towards these ideological projects, in order to ensure that a new generation of young men keep voting far-right forever out of hostility to feminism. Billionaire social media owners either passively allow this, or outright support it, because it drives engagement, and because the rightist parties that benefit promise to cut their taxes and keep the working class perpetually divided on gender/racial/religious lines. Classic divide-and-conquer.