"}Reducing fascism to some \nvague idea of extreme conservatism, which in its American context \nessentially means angry old white people, misses the sense in which \nfascism prospered because it was something young, cool, transgressive, \nand new. For fascist intellectuals, at least, the liberal bourgeoisie \nwas their enemy as much as were communists or Jews, and it was precisely\n because the bourgeois were old, self-righteous, and boring. Fascism was\n sexy and fun.
Milo gets this… Milo\n exploits to great effect the perception among his disaffected, youthful\n fan base that liberal pieties about diversity and anti-racism are just \nthe moralistic droning of an elite losing its grip on power.
Trump\u2019s\n success has raised among liberals a fear that the far right has made \nitself respectable. Milo\u2019s success at creating a following for a figure \nlike himself \u2014 limited as it might be \u2014 suggests that the bigger fear \nshould be that the far right might make itself cool.