Vox: Why Trump’s Second Term Agenda Is So Wildly Different From His First

? REPORTER: How did you come to the conclusion that DEI had something to do with this crash?

TRUMP: “Because I have common sense.”

Mic drop. pic.twitter.com/Uzdl1ogBFZ

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 30, 2025

The pinned video on Delta’s TikTok account: pic.twitter.com/leDMlhtAq3

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 18, 2025

I was a flight instructor for 40 years. The crash of the Delta aircraft is a perfect example of a DEI hired pilot (I use the term pilot loosely) I had a student once that could never learn to flare. I always had to take the controls at the last minute. This is a perfect example… pic.twitter.com/cEuSfo9E2a

— Michael Cope ? ?? DARK MAGA (@MCope81505) February 18, 2025

“A Queen doesn’t ax for permission to land” pic.twitter.com/SEOfPqOIqK

— David Santa Carla ? (@TheOnlyDSC) February 17, 2025

The vast majority of activists didn’t survive this transition.

Vox:

“All this and more from Trump’s first four weeks back in office show that his new administration is profoundly influenced by what might be called the online right: perpetually plugged-in posters who’ve become united by their desire to combat and defeat “woke” progressives.

Complaints about the liberal leanings of various institutions — the media, nonprofits, the civil service, academia — are nothing new for Republicans, or for Trump.

But the new Trump administration — and, specifically, very online officials like Vice President JD Vance, Stephen Miller, and Musk — isn’t just complaining. Officials are now trying to use the tools of government against these institutions, in hopes of taking progressives’ power away and establishing cultural dominance for conservatives. …

So while Trump’s first administration was heavily influenced by traditional Republican figures, his second one is far more influenced by a burgeoning new establishment — a very online one. …

The online right’s roots go back years, to Gamergate and the alt-right, though in the 2010s such subcultures were viewed as somewhat disreputable even by Republicans. Few prominent figures openly associated themselves with them, and Trump relied on traditional Republicans for most of his appointees. …

Indeed, Vance is immersed enough in online right culture that knows full well that the young right’s online ranks are full of racist shitposters. But, in that culture, they are part of the team — valued allies in the struggle against this greater enemy, the media (which to them is of course part of the woke progressive deep state blob). …”

The 2010s are over.

The younger Right has been marinating in “racism” for a decade now.

No one is shouted down, condemned and ostracized as a “racist,” for example, for blaming the recent plane crashes on incompetent black people. Trump himself comes out and says things like that at press conferences. Racist cartoons mocking black people get over 100K likes on X.

The border between the mainstream Right and the Dissident Right, which was still intact at the time of the Groyper War in late 2019, dissolved under the Biden presidency. At this point in 2017, the Alt-Right was being denounced at CPAC. Today, the Vice President goes out of his way to publicly defend racist shitposters and attacks the German government for censorship and marginalizing AfD.