ABSTRACT
This chapter was originally published by Political Research Associates on March 8, 2017. It has been edited from its original version in accordance with the No Notoriety campaign’s recommendation not to name perpetrators of mass violence. Male supremacism, enshrined in the nation’s founding documents, is as fundamental to US history as White Anglo-Saxon Protestant nativism. Paul Elam has made attempts at a respectable mainstream image, organizing the movement’s first in-person conference. Video games might not seem like a vital social justice battleground. Trump’s rhetoric shares more in common with equity feminist and men’s rights ideologies than with “family values” framing—and with the reality of Christian Right misogyny, such as the vitriol of clinic protesters and the anti-feminism of the late Phyllis Schlafly, a staunch Trump supporter. The influence of ideology on the broader population, outside of active movement participants, bears particular importance with a president who uses his platform to broadcast virulent misogyny, racism, nativism, and Islamophobia.
