Talking to Luke Ford about today's Washington Post profile of a young unemployed alt righter and his mother's shame, among other things.
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From the Post article:
The mother and son were sitting in the living room, arguing about Ellen DeGeneres again.
“She definitely helps push the degeneracy. Didn’t she have that cross-dressing little boy on?” Kam Musser, 21, said of one of her recent guests. “That little boy in makeup.”
“He’s a makeup artist,” said his mother, Kirsten, 48, correcting him. “What’s wrong with that? . . . He does a beautiful job.”
“I don’t think putting makeup on little boys is very kosher.”
“He’s not hurting anybody or himself.”
“Okay,” he said, rolling his eyes. “He does what he does; I do what I do.”
What Kam was doing, and what he wasn’t, had come to dominate so much in their lives. He was two years out of high school now, and he didn’t have a job, or a car, or a place of his own, or much money beyond what his mother gave him — nothing at all to occupy his time except a computer that had carried him to the most extreme parts of the Internet, and to beliefs that no one in his family could understand.
In the year since the 2016 presidential election, Kam had gone from supporting white supremacists, to joining a neo-Nazi group, to shouting “white lives matter” at a rally, to standing beside Richard Spencer outside the White House, to increasingly tense conversations with his mother and grandmother, both of whom were beginning to fear that what they had once thought was just a phase was quickly becoming his life.
How did this happen?
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