Frogs Can't Jump Backward

The last decade has seen the rise to political prominence of the so-called “online right.” People use different names for the various overlapping elements of this growing constituency. There’s “Frog Twitter,” the “dissident right,” the “anon right,” the “manosphere,” and more. But however one refers to it, the movement has unique ideas and aesthetic proclivities that distinguish it from other right-wing factions. It boasts personalities with many thousands of online followers (Bronze Age Pervert, Raw Egg Nationalist, L0m3z, etc.). Increasingly, they have their own publications, (IM-1776, Man’s World,or The Asylum). Despite their taste for absurdist comedy, their powerful presence demands that we take their positions seriously. There is a flowering intellectual vitality among the Frogs today, which offers the potential to resist institutional leftism and perhaps re-found a social order more conducive to traditionalist and conservative cultural commitments. Read Full Article »