Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ and the war on white men



Netflix is up to its old feminist tricks with the new show “Adolescence” — a miniseries that initially appears to be a crime thriller but ultimately unfolds into blatant propaganda that paints white men in a negative light.

The story centers around a young white boy accused of murdering one of his female classmates, who cyberbullied the young boy and called him an “incel.” The term, meaning “involuntary celibate,” orbits around the online “manosphere” and red-pill movements.

“I don’t like the demonization of any group based on skin color, and I don’t like the denial that the demonization of white men and white people and particularly white evangelicals is going on globally, and we can see it right here in this miniseries that Netflix has put on,” Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” comments.


While the entire series is clear in its anti-man message, episode two is where Whitlock says, “They play a big card.”

That is, it brings Andrew Tate into the show by name.

“You’ve got this murder of a young teenage girl by a 13-year-old boy, and the next thing you know, halfway through episode two, they’re basically saying, ‘Well, you know what the motive is? He was radicalized by Andrew Tate,’” Whitlock explains, noting that this is where the show quotes the online red-pill accounts that say 80% of women are attracted to only 20% of men.

While Whitlock abhors much of what Tate has done or said in the past, he’s not on board with a “four-part series that basically says Andrew Tate is the driving force of this.”

“This all connects to the demonization of white men, ‘cause that’s what this miniseries is about, that the patriarchal ways of Western civilization have clearly outlived their usefulness, and that the solution to fixing angry young men is bowing, submitting to female leadership and more female involvement in everything,” Whitlock says.

“They’ve set up Andrew Tate as the scapegoat, as the distraction. The manosphere, the red-pill movement, all these angry men that reject feminism, they’re the problem,” he adds, noting that they’ll never go after the real problems plaguing society.

Which is why Whitlock is taking the conversation to one of the greatest conservative voices out there today on Friday, May 2.

“I just want to set the table for a conversation I’m going to have with Tucker Carlson,” Whitlock says. “Because it’s important. The demonization of white men that’s going on in global culture. Netflix, the U.K., everywhere. Everybody’s doing the Macarena on white men.”

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Is Andrew Tate a role model — or doing Satan's work disguised as one?



The controversial influencer Andrew Tate has taken the helm of a ship that’s steering young conservative men in a direction sold as greatness — but it’s a ship young men should be jumping instead.

“I think he is the overreaction, the pendulum is swinging so far the other way that young people are looking at him and going, ‘You know, it’s time for men to be men,’” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” tells BlazeTV hosts Stu Burguiere and Allie Beth Stuckey.

“But that’s not what men are. That’s not what a good man is,” he adds.

Stuckey is in full agreement.


“Of course, he says things that we would agree with about feminism, about the emasculation of men, and how men need to be providers, they need to be tough, they need to take care of women, but at the same time, he is a self-proclaimed pimp who has prostituted young girls on video,” Stuckey says.

“And yeah, he is on tape beating women with a belt and threatening them,” she continues. “He might say he’s different now, but I don’t know how anyone could say he’s redeemed, because he became a Muslim, which is basically just a religious justification for oppressing women.”

“I would say that no, no young man should follow him. Do we need strong male leadership examples for men? Yes. Andrew Tate is not that,” she adds.

“This is what Satan does. He’ll take a little bit of truth and then mix it in with a whole bunch of lies and pervert everything,” Glenn agrees. “And that’s what’s happening with these things. You’ll see the truth of, yeah, you know what, men should be strong.”

Rather than a leader, Glenn calls Tate a “bully” who is the “exact opposite of what a man is.”

Stu notes that it’s not just women Tate has targeted, but underage girls.

“That is the allegation we’re talking about, 14- and 15-year-old girls in some cases,” he tells Stuckey and Glenn.

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Florida AG launches criminal investigation into Andrew Tate; influencer lashes out at Ron DeSantis with conspiracy theory



The Florida attorney general announced that a criminal investigation would be launched against controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate. The 38-year-old former MMA fighter lashed out at the investigation and called the move "absolute communism."

The Tate brothers landed at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida on Feb. 27 after Romania lifted a travel restriction on them.

'If these guys did criminal activity here in Florida, we will go after them with full force of law and hold them accountable.'

According to NBC News, the brothers left Romania while still under a criminal investigation regarding accusations of having formed an organized criminal group, in addition to human trafficking, the trafficking of minors, sex with a minor, and money laundering. The Tate brothers were arrested near the Romanian capital of Bucharest in 2022 along with two Romanian women.

The brothers have denied any involvement in illegal activities in Romania.

In mid-February, President Donald Trump's special envoy, Richard Grenell, raised the issue of the Tate brothers with Romania's Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu at the Munich Security Conference. Hurezeanu said he did not consider the discussion as a "form of pressure."

Last week, Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism said in a statement that the Tate brothers would be expected to appear before judicial authorities if summoned and were warned that deliberately dodging "obligations may result in judicial control being replaced with a stricter deprivation of liberty measure."

The Bucharest Tribunal has not yet set a date for a trial.

The Tate brothers hold U.S.-U.K. dual citizenship.

However, the Tates also face another criminal case in the United Kingdom, where an arrest warrant has been issued on accusations of human trafficking and rape that allegedly occurred between 2013 and 2015.

Ed Davey, a leader in the U.K.'s Liberal Democrat Party, called on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to enact an "immediate extradition" of Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, from the United States.

"Four British women have accused Andrew Tate of rape and human trafficking, and British police have issued arrest warrants," Davey said on Wednesday. "The Tates have tried to escape justice, first to Romania and now to the United States. But I'm delighted that Florida has thankfully opened a criminal investigation."

The Tate brothers have said they "unequivocally deny" any wrongdoing in Britain.

'Florida has zero tolerance for people who abuse women and girls. We will not allow it.'

On Tuesday, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that the state would launch a criminal investigation into the brothers.

"Last week, I directed my office to work with our law enforcement partners to conduct a preliminary inquiry into Andrew and Tristan Tate," Uthmeier wrote on X. "Based on a thorough review of the evidence, I’ve directed the Office of Statewide Prosecution to execute search warrants and issue subpoenas in the now-active criminal investigation into the Tate brothers."

He declared, "Florida has zero tolerance for people who abuse women and girls. We will not allow it."

Uthmeier said in an interview, "These guys have themselves publicly admitted to participating in what very much appears to be soliciting, trafficking, preying upon women around the world."

"People can spin it however they want, but in Florida, this type of behavior is viewed as atrocious. We're not going to accept it," he continued. "If these guys did criminal activity here in Florida, we will go after them with full force of law and hold them accountable."

Uthmeier said it was an active investigation and did not reveal potential crimes committed by the Tate brothers. However, one of the alleged victims from the Romanian case against the Tate brothers is a Florida woman.

The American citizen has accused the brothers of luring her to Romania under the pretense of a romantic relationship and then pressuring her to work as a pornographic webcam model, according to court documents.

The woman's attorney, Dani Pinter, praised Uthmeier for launching the new investigation.

"Florida AG Uthmeier is right to criminally investigate the Tate brothers, who have publicly boasted about exploiting women yet have continuously sought to undermine the Romanian investigation into these crimes," Pinter said in a statement. "Over 40 victims have been identified across Romania, the United Kingdom, and the United States. They deserve justice."

The Tate brothers sued the woman for defamation in 2023. However, she filed a countersuit against them last month in Palm Beach County, Florida. A video conference hearing is scheduled for Thursday, according to the lawyer for the brothers.

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock broke down the controversy swirling around Andrew Tate during a new episode of "Fearless with Jason Whitlock."

Joseph D. McBride, a lawyer representing the Tates, fulminated against Uthmeier and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday.

"Today, Attorney General James Uthmeier threw ethics law out of the window when he publicly took a side in an ongoing Florida lawsuit where Andrew and Tristan Tate are suing a Florida woman for orchestrating a sophisticated plot to use sex as a weapon to ruin their lives," McBride claimed.

He asserted, "Attorney General Uthmeier’s statements are inflammatory, biased, and designed to affect the outcome of our pending civil suit in Palm Beach Court."

"The so-called Florida criminal investigation initiated by Ron DeSanctimonious and his AG lapdog is as meritless as Joe Biden's 'investigation' of Trump and the subsequent raid of Mar-a-Lago," McBride said on X.

McBride challenged Uthmeier to reveal evidence of a crime or "shut the hell up."

'I am super disappointed in the United States. This isn’t the America I know. This is a sad sad day for America.'

McBride made baseless claims that DeSantis ordered an investigation for political reasons to help his wife, Casey DeSantis, if she were to run for governor of Florida in 2026. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) has already declared that he will run in the 2026 gubernatorial race.

"Ron knows that neither he nor his wife appeal to younger voters. Ron knows that Andrew Tate and Tristan have more influence over younger voters than anyone else," McBride alleged. "Ron knows that the Tate brothers vehemently support Trump and by extension will support Byron Donalds."

The day the Tates arrived in Florida, DeSantis was asked about the brothers, and he proclaimed: "Florida is not a place where you're welcome with that type of conduct."

Andrew Tate also lashed out at the decision by Florida's AG to launch an investigation into him and his brother.

"Absolute communism. I’ve been in America for 5 days. I sat on my laptop and did a podcast. Insanity,” Tate wrote in an X social media post on Tuesday.

He continued, "I am super disappointed in the United States. This isn’t the America I know. This is a sad sad day for America. Trying to find crimes on an innocent man. I’m not afraid. I’m genuinely just disappointed."

Tate also attacked DeSantis with a fallacious statement.

"DeSantis allowed feds to raid our president's home. Never forget Mar-a-Lago," Tate wrote on X. The post received a community note correcting the remark.

DeSantis had no authority to prevent a federal investigation by the FBI when agents executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago in August 2022.

'You think I'm not ready? I'm a Navy SEAL in this s**t.'

Tate also shared the conspiracy theory that DeSantis ordered a criminal investigation into the Tates for political gain.

"Ron DeSantis is attacking me because he was worried I would support Byron Donalds over his wife, knowing I have monumental political weight, and trust our commander and chief President Trump's recommendations completely," the former fighter alleged. "They attacked me to prevent me from destroying his wife's political ambitions. Interestingly, I had no interest in Floridian politics until I learnt how communist the DeSantis admin is. The game is on."

Despite Tate supporting Donalds, the Republican representative said he endorses the criminal investigation into the Tate brothers.

When asked by CBS News if he supports the AG's investigation, Donalds responded: "I do. I think that those allegations have to be fully investigated and then we go from there."

"The key thing is we don't tolerate the trafficking of women or, frankly, the abuse of women. We do not tolerate that," Donalds added. "So if the attorney general finds cause under Florida law to investigate that, then I wish him the best, and I support whatever he's going to do on that matter."

When asked if the Tates are welcome in Florida, Donalds replied: "No, quite frankly not. Because if you listen to some of the dialogue — I find it to be demeaning and disgusting. That's not about being an alpha male. That's not about being a strong man. What they stand for in my view is something totally different."

Tate suggested that he is "one of the most persecuted and hunted men on the planet." Tate also compared himself to Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, and Trump.

During an interview with Candace Owens on Tuesday night, Tate dared Florida authorities to "f**king come get me."

"You think I'm not ready? I'm a Navy SEAL in this s**t," Tate ranted.

Tate challenged Florida authorities to come to his house and "take my stuff."

Tate then said, "You think I sleep with a phone full of evidence? You think I don't wipe my phone every night? You think I'm dumb?"

During an interview on the "PBD Podcast," Tate said he "gets more hate" than convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

BlazeTV political commentator Liz Wheeler delivered her analysis regarding Tate's "PBD Podcast" appearance in a new episode of the "Liz Wheeler Show."

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Andrew Tate admits the violent truth about his treatment of women



Andrew Tate was once the most Googled man in the world, and now he’s on the ground in Florida after facing charges for human trafficking in Romania.

“Andrew Tate was looked up to by young men around the world. He was considered a role model for young men. Many young men considered him to inspire them to get their bank accounts in order, to focus on physical fitness,” Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” says.

But Tate isn’t a good role model, and it’s high time young men figure it out.

“The problem with Andrew Tate is that he’s actually not a good role model for young men. He is leading young men down the path of self destruction,” Wheeler says, before revealing what Tate himself has said to prove this.

“They didn’t teach you this in self-defense, here’s a little move. When I grab you by your neck, and you start annoying me, trying to resist, and I just —” Tate begins in an older video, before simulating hitting the hypothetical woman over and over again.


“And then I grab you by your neck again. Then what the f*** are you going to do when your face is collapsed and your f***ing cheekbones broken. You ain't going to do s***,” Tate continued.

Other videos of Tate aren’t much better.

“I guarantee I change the way you look at sex forever. You’re going to be crying. ‘I won’t cry.’ I bet you cry,” he said in a video posted to social media. “You’re challenging me to a fight. You’re saying I can’t hurt you. Are you out of your f***ing mind?”

“I’ll just start beating the s*** out of you,” he added.

Tate also posted a video of himself showing the “basic moves of pimping,” which essentially means hitting and choking a woman while threatening her with a machete.

“Now, some people will say, ‘That was a long time ago, Liz. You took that out of context,’” Wheeler says. “And my answer to that would be in what context are comments like that appropriate? In what context are comments like that defensible? In what context would you want your son or your brother or your father or your husband or your boyfriend to be listening and being influenced by content like this?”

“Andrew Tate is a pimp,” she continues. “And I didn't pick that word for Andrew Tate; Andrew Tate picked that word for himself.”

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Whitlock: Andrew Tate is playing the ‘victim card’ as the right-wing Gloria Steinem



Andrew Tate and his brother are back in the news after leaving Romania — where they are facing human trafficking charges — and arriving in Florida. The reaction among conservatives is split, with some celebrating his arrival, while others are not happy with it.

Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” and Delano Squires are among the latter.

“If young men think they’ve been sold a bad deal by feminists, they need to understand Andrew Tate is really no different than Gloria Steinem,” Squires tells Whitlock. “He’s selling a particular message.”


“Gloria Steinem in the 1960s was telling women working for your husband is a bad deal, marriage is a bad deal,” he continues. “‘Go out in the corporation, go make your own money, stand on your own two feet, you don’t need a man to fulfill your life.’”

“Andrew Tate is right there on the other side. This is the horseshoe theory in effect,” he adds. “Telling young men marriage and family is a bad deal, traditional values are a bad deal. Make your money, build your own empire. You don’t need a woman to fulfill your life.”

“He has executed this, ‘Hey, I’m a victim’ card, and conservatives have fallen for it,” Whitlock agrees. “He’s a victim of the globalists and the feminist and the DEI crowd or whatever, and he’s played that game.”

“This is where politics gets in the way of truth and righteousness, and that’s the real danger that I see here,” he continues. “We’re so caught up in politics, we’ve thrown out our values once again.”

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'Degeneracy of the highest order’: Why Andrew Tate's arrival in the US is NOT welcomed



Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, have arrived in the U.S. after Romanian prosecutors allowed the pair to leave the country, three years after their arrest on allegations of rape, trafficking minors, and money laundering.

The brothers flew into Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Thursday night. Aftering arriving in the U.S., Andrew told reporters that he and his brother were simply “misunderstood” and claimed not to have done anything wrong.

“I think it’s extremely important that we stop allowing media spin, wrap up smears, lies, or carefully constructed narratives from George Soros-funded operations trying to destroy the reputations of good people who have no intention to do anything other than follow the law,” Andrew said.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) did not share the Tate brother’s sentiment, telling reporters that Florida is “not a place where [they] are welcome.”


“There’s a little bit of controversy,” Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” comments. “The Trump administration, to some degree, I think, not defended Andrew Tate, but said something, they were trying to help him out in Romania in some capacity.”

“People seem, on the conservative side, very reluctant to criticize this guy. Best of my knowledge, the stuff that I’ve seen, the guy’s some sort of pimp and bragged about it. I don’t get how there’s any defense for Andrew Tate just out of his own mouth,” he continues.

“His own actions, the stuff that’s caught on film that he’s said and done. He’s some sort of a pimp,” he says. “He’s some sort of spokesman for the manosphere, he's inspiring young men, he's a backlash to feminism, you know, I’m trying to understand it.”

“The issue is Andrew Tate represents many of the values that conservatives and Christians and people who have some sort of moral or ethical compass say that we stand against,” Delano Squires tells Whitlock.

“He’s sex-crazed, he describes himself as a pimp, he’s talked about how he uses or used, at the point he was speaking, used sex to control women, who would then work for him doing cam work. So, basically, OnlyFans before the company was around,” he continues.

“And he talked about how he suckered men out of a lot of money,” he says. “He speaks against traditional values; he’s anti-marriage. When he talks about family, he’s like ‘Look, go to Colombia, go to Thailand, go to some third-world country, second- or third-world country, find you a nice-looking woman, impregnate her, send a few shekels every once in awhile, keep her and the baby alive.’”

“So I think he has the makings of someone who is the worst type of person to follow. He’s a tragic mulatto with serious daddy and mommy issues who promotes degeneracy of the highest order,” he adds.

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Tim Walz's daughter says women shouldn't date men who listen to Joe Rogan; rising TikTok star DESTROYS her



Kaylie Guerrero was born to be a conservative social media star.

Daughter of the late professional wrestler Eddie Guerrero, Kaylie attended Trump’s first inauguration in 2017 on a scholastic scholarship at the age of only 13 and became valedictorian of her high school. Now, she’s clapping back at leftists, like Tim Walz’s daughter, online.

“I don’t know how you have the largest podcast in the world and are able to just lie — and put out misinformation and straight up lies on your platform,” Walz said about Joe Rogan in a video she posted to social media, where she also encouraged women not to date men who follow Rogan on social media.

“Eddie Guerrero’s daughter encourages girls to only date men who follow Joe Rogan, Alex Jones, and the Tates on social media,” Kaylie wrote in protest.


Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein” is impressed with the rising star, who tells him that thanks to her grandfather, she grew up hearing Alex Jones and Bill O’Reilly on the radio and television.

When COVID-19 hit, she was discriminated against for her decision not to get vaccinated.

“As I said, I’m valedictorian. I worked my entire life for that title, and guess what? I couldn’t go to any school in the entire country without getting vaccinated, which I was not willing to do,” Guerrero tells Stein.

“We can only get into so much, ‘cause YouTube will censor us, but obviously, we know that with no long-term testing, and just the rollout of it, to make young kids have to take it to go to school for me is a crime. It’s disgusting, and it’s ridiculous, and I’m sorry you had to go through that,” Stein says.

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Conservatives: Stop making excuses for Andrew Tate



The influence of Andrew Tate has spread rapidly through conservative youth, particularly among young disillusioned men. While some conservatives believe it’s a good thing, Allie Beth Stuckey believes it’s dangerous.

“You will see conservatives, unabashedly, without caveat, uncritically platform Andrew Tate and say, ‘Well, he’s got interesting things to say about society, so I’m just going to forget the rest of everything that he is and I’m going to platform him without pushing back at all,’” Stuckey says.

While Stuckey doesn’t believe someone has to be perfect in order to be heard, she explains that Tate’s message is a “net negative.”

Tate, who recently converted to Islam, is a British-American social media influencer with 10.5 million followers on X and 2 million on Rumble, and he once ran a cam girl business where he hired women to essentially do “virtual porn sessions” with male customers.


“They would take the women, would take a tiny cut of the money, and then Tate and his brother, I believe, would take most of the money. And so, he also sold courses on how men can become pimps and how men can get women to do whatever they want them to do,” Stuckey explains.

Tate is extraordinarily popular in the United Kingdom, where a 2023 survey found that eight in 10 British boys ages 16-17 had consumed Tate’s content. He also currently faces charges in Romania for “human trafficking for trafficking of minors, for forming an organized criminal group, sexual intercourse with a minor, and money laundering.”

Tate denies these allegations, claiming that it’s simply the matrix out to get him because he’s disrupting the feminist system.

However, his own words make that hard to believe.

“I have to f*** her so she obeys me. I don’t give a **** about having sex with beautiful women. I f*** them so they listen to me, so I can get what I actually want, which is not them; it’s a means to an end. Every single Bond girl was exploited; that’s exactly what I do,” Tate said in a video he took of himself.

“When I watch a Bond film and I see him basically pimp a *****, to me that speaks to my heart. I’ve been there, I’ve done that. Anyone who’s followed me long enough knows that I first made my million dollars with a webcam business. I have met beautiful women with a good personality and thought, ‘She will make me money,’” Tate continued.

Tate, who has claimed that this all happened 10 years ago, has also allegedly forced women who worked for him to get his name tattooed on them, like a brand.

“That wasn’t all 10 years ago,” Stuckey says. “Some of what he was saying was just a few years ago. He openly admitted during COVID that he hired more girls to pimp out for this so-called sex work, this prostitution over cameras.”

Now, Tate is teasing a potential run for prime minister.

“Why do people listen to Andrew Tate? Is it something that we should consider, is it because there is a dearth of masculinity on the right? Is it because Christians have become so feminized and have not given good masculine examples to men?” Stuckey asks.

“I don’t think that it is not worth debating,” she adds.

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FACT CHECK: No, CNN Did Not Publish Article Saying Andrew Tate Is The Betting Favorite For UK Prime Minister

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Andrew Tate’s Trojan horse: Would the right let in a ‘minor-attracted person’ too?



Judging by their embrace of Andrew Tate, it seems as though some conservative influencers in 2025 are ready to trade in their familiar “Christ is King” mantra for a new one: “Pimping ain’t easy.”

Benny Johnson is a popular conservative commentator with over 3 million followers on X and close to 3 million subscribers on YouTube. He caused a major controversy in right-wing circles after announcing he would have the man known as “Top G” on his show to discuss the sentencing phase of President Trump’s hush-money case. Johnson advertised his guest with an image of both men in black aviator shades with images of a crying liberal woman in their lenses.

American conservatism will die a well-deserved death if it becomes defined by its foes rather than its values.

The imagery was telling. Andrew Tate has described his webcam operation featuring over 75 women as “pimping” and bragged about getting “betas” from all over the world to send money to the women “working” for him. His appearance on Johnson’s show wasn’t going to be a hard-hitting interview about Tate’s own legal troubles, an update on his human trafficking case in Romania, or his past statements about controlling women.

Tate’s contribution to the show was essentially a series of comparisons he made between himself and President Trump, as well as complaints about conservatives “policing” right-wing bad boys. At one point, Alina Habba, one of Trump’s legal counselors, joined the show and gushed over Tate. She compared his legal travails to Trump’s and told Tate she sympathizes with him, admires him, and has his back.

I try to avoid therapeutic language, but Tate’s defenders conducted a master class in gaslighting. Instead of addressing the concerns conservatives have about Tate’s content and views, they made the issue about censorship and free speech. Johnson even tried to shield himself with the Bible, posting, “He who is without sin cast the first stone …”

I have no problem with media personalities speaking to guests with controversial views. I’m an ’80s baby who remembers when talk show hosts would invite provocateurs to explain their ideas and defend their positions in front of a hostile crowd. But there is a big difference between Phil Donahue interviewing a former Klansman to understand his views and fawning over him like an Exalted Cyclops groupie.

The pushback against Tate and his defenders isn’t about “cancel culture” or policing speech. It’s driven by the fact Tate promotes a lifestyle and worldview that are completely antithetical to what conservatives claim they value.

I highly doubt any conservative influencer would post an image promoting a drag queen who performs in front of kids or a pediatric surgeon who performs “gender-affirming” hysterectomies and then screech about free speech and censorship when fans criticize their decision. Likewise, no one would accept such a lapse in judgement with out-of-context scriptures.

Conservatives have a right to determine which ideas need to be debated publicly and which personalities should be promoted widely. Failure to use discernment when considering allies and co-belligerents always backfires.

I saw this firsthand in 2020 when Black Lives Matter turned a self-evidently true phrase into a movement that gave its leaders political power, cultural influence, and a multimillion-dollar real estate portfolio. Of all the victims of BLM’s obvious scam, the churches and pastors who hitched their wagon to anti-family Marxist lesbians were by far the most pitiful. My issue with them was not their naïveté. It was the fact that they thought they needed people with such anti-biblical views to deliver a message about the value of human life that could be pulled straight from the Bible.

Likewise, American conservatism will die a well-deserved death if it becomes defined by its foes rather than its values.

You can’t take a bold public stance against pornography one minute and celebrate OnlyFans “entrepreneurs” the next simply because they have “based” takes on politics. You can’t claim to care about rebuilding the family one day, then fawn all over people whose ideas will only create more broken homes. You can’t call out transgender ideology when it’s pushed by “impossible women” in public health roles but prop up men identifying as women on the right because they appear to be more convincing counterfeits or support the incoming president.

The litmus test for the right can’t be how much a person is hated by the left. You don’t have to be an expert on Andrew Tate’s legal issues to understand why conservatives shouldn’t want to see his ideas and views legitimized. If having the right enemies is all it takes to become a conservative media darling, a shrewd “minor-attracted person” could simply hide his pedophilia behind a manufactured persona characterized by standing up to the globalists trying to destroy Western civilization.

No serious political movement should be that easy to hoodwink, and no self-respecting person would want to be.