Miguel Afonso Caetano"As the ranks of party guests swell — to a peak of about 70 or 80 people — a few more women turn up, maybe a dozen or so. But men in their twenties and early thirties make up the bulk. Men between 40 and 60 comprise the second biggest group, about 80 per cent of whom are wearing Skechers. A few people are wearing Maga hats.
This is, I’m told, a gathering of the “dissident right”, an anti-woke, anti-establishment, pro-nationalist segment of the right that considers itself more cutting-edge than mainstream conservatism. If you mention Nigel Farage or the Reform party here, you get curled-up faces — far too moderate. It’s close to what might have been called the “alt-right”, but that term feels a bit passé and much less relevant than during Trump’s first campaign.
Yarvin’s ideas about replacing the democratic system with something akin to a dictatorship have given things a new twist, hence the need for new terminology. The dissident right is a cultural scene just as much as it is an intellectual movement. Its geographical capital is probably Dimes Square in Lower Manhattan, a “microdistrict” of about five blocks jokingly named after a restaurant in the area, that became something of a transgressive hang-out spot during Covid-19 lockdowns. Dimes Square is closely associated with the formerly leftwing, cool-girl hosts of the satirical, post-ironic Red Scare podcast, Dasha Nekrasova and Anna Khachiyan, who Yarvin recently recorded a live show with, as well as with Sovereign House, a “cultural event space” tied to both Thiel and Yarvin. That’s the thing about this new scene: you don’t have to be uncool to be rightwing anymore."
https://www.ft.com/content/0e244103-80e8-4acc-9262-d6a45bbbaf14
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