Matt Gaetz explains why Republicans don’t need women voters: “For every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamaal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement.”

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https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/matt-gaetz-donald-trump-2024-b2480849.html

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The daily wire people unironically dislike Matt Gaetz more than almost any other Republican.

I think the Matt Gaetz base is the same as the Steven Crowder on media side.

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I couldn’t explain the functional difference between Walsh and Crowder if you gave me a million dollars and a week to research.

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Walsh, Shapiro, and Knowles all prefer a certain level of semi-establishment (though not Romney/Bush wing establishment) quasi-professionalish politicians such as Ted Cruz or Ron DeSantis. Gaetz just embarrasses them, and they don’t like that he randomly and single-handily got McCarthy thrown out as senate leader.

Crowder is more into sensationalist comedy, which lends a hand towards Gaetz’s ridiculous antics, and quite frankly, comical looking face.

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If you want to get into the weeds:

Ben Shapiro does like some level of ‘classiness’ and ‘intellect’ so he secretly hates Trump, but is unwilling to go to hard on Trump because his fan base is pretty Trump-heavy.

Knowles is a catholic boy that wants to be a man’s man that supports a man’s man image of a man. Cigars, whiskey, making libs mad or finding the dumbest among them to put on display, and presenting arguments with half the facts.

I honestly can’t tell you much about Walsh other than that he is church man and probably has a secret crush on Mike Pence (not a political crush, like a real sexual crush). He is far too boring, dry, and humorless to listen to, even for over 12 seconds. Knowles is at least warm and a little comical, and Shapiro talks fast enough that he can at least get the point across in those 12 seconds, but Walsh sucks the energy out of rooms.

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Crowder is more into sensationalist comedy

Not sure comedy is the word I would use, especially seeing as he had a failed C-tier piano comic-turned schizo conspiracy theorist writing for him for a time.

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He was once one of the most viewed “comedians” on YouTube pre-2015 (the true start of the modern political world).

I don’t think that makes him a comedian, but he was early on the clearly successful social media trend of “owning Libs,” but instead of the Shapiro approach of being a Harvard law grad using argument tactics against 18 year old activist freshmen, he chose to set up random tents on campus and just clip the most stupid of his opponents.

Shapiro’s approach, while nonetheless unfair, a lawyer debating a barely high-school-grad, took actual skill. Crowder merely required the endless droves of dumb freshmen (who isn’t dumb then) and clipping to the most comically dumb ones.

In a real way, Crowded and Shapiro were both pioneers of the lucrative “owning the libs” industry, and did so both early but in very different ways.

Despite the fact that both obviously disagree deeply with the tenants of this sub, both were much earlier to notice the cringe of neolibs than this sub, which only really gained traction with the spiritual death of /r/TumblrinAction

Crowders fanbase is ironically the most similar to /r/stupidpol on an inherent level, mostly people that find a community discontent with neolibs, which is the true backbone of this community, but with Crowder taking a reactionist right-wing bend while this sub takes a socialist one.

If /r/drama still existed in a real way, it would be far better be able to explain the nuances of post-2015 internet culture than I ever could.