Thread by @mattsheffield

Antifeminism is the main tie that binds the youthful fringe right the way that Christian supremacism did for Boomer righties & racism did earlier.

The emphasis for each person is different, but right wing inverse intersectionality works by mixing & matching these three elements.

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1352314451584815104

Opponents of far right radicalism sometimes fall prey to making reductionist analyses that suppose only one of these hatreds explains what's happening.

This mistake is especially terrible because it hampers their ability to counter extremism bc they don't fully understand it.

If you think reactionaries are only motivated by racism, you'll miss the radicalizing that's happening rapidly among young minority men who are sexist.

Racism and antisemitism are very common among Christianists. And fundamentalist Christians are almost always misogynistic.

Having worked with many right wing elites, most are primarily motivated by money but others are motivated by religion. Plenty are by both, such as the Mercer family.

To achieve their goals, however, they have no problem utilizing any combination of religion, race, or misogyny.

This mixing and matching of hatreds to divide non-billionaires from each other to gain just enough votes is what I call inverse intersectionality.

And you can't stop it unless you see the whole strategy. It's just like that fable of the blind men and the elephant.