The whole purpose of the "intellectual dark web" is to ensure genuine opposition to the establishment never takes root. Their problem now, though, is that no one takes them seriously.
It makes sense that the IDW emerged within conservatism because the conservative movement is defined by gatekeeping and purges that protect that establishment above all. But people aren't going along with it anymore. The energy has, indeed, shifted.
The IDW is basically an offshoot of neoconservatism: a bunch of "non-woke libs" welcomed into conservatism who are never more vicious than when attacking people who aren't libs. Old neocons were Trotskyites too but could be insightful sometimes. Can't same the same for IDW types.
This is why the IDW and actual neocons tend to get along. They share an ugliness of worldview and viciousness of character. But their day is done. Gatekeeping only works for as long as people are afraid of the gatekeepers.
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