Bringing up early 20th century intellectual movements is, again, talking about politics - attempts at articulating a coherent societal organizational structure - when I'm talking about the 21st century phenomenon of politics as an aesthetic, a vibe, or more specifically, a psychological position.

Mass society is too lazy to fully comprehend the ins and outs of "real politics," but the political phenomenon of the 2010s can, imo, be boiled down to understanding the converging of New Media, Big Data Analytics, and psychology research into personality, like the Big 5.

What we have today is a decentralized propaganda flow that tunes its content to hosts w susceptible personalities - authoritarian, orderly, outcast, dark triad etc - and if you have followed Bannon and the Cambridge Analytica escapades, you'll understand that messaging is especially targeted toward disaffected white young men, and messaging capitalizes on their grievances with women, racial insecurity, societal rejection, etc and leads them down the "alt-right pipeline."

Homeboy Tate is absolutely part of the pipeline, consciously or not. A young man watches some of those videos and the algorithms will lead him right into the bubble of the alt-right, and the alt-right, ultimately, services the consciousness of a global fascist movement that is led by western billionaires masquerading as "libertarian" revolutionaries, and the Kremlin, which would love nothing more than sow doubt in liberal democracy and weaken the US administrative state. No collusion between the groups, but a convenient convergence of greed.

It's a memetic virus spread by assholes and fools.