Republican strategist Rick Wilson, appearing on MSNBC, spoke thusly last night of the online contingent of Trump's racist, sexist support base: "childless single men who masturbate to anime".
The full @TheRickWilson trolling the alt-right on their porn habits: pic.twitter.com/uQD9QJ9wZg
— Cameron Joseph (@cam_joseph) January 20, 2016
The growing association between the Alt Right and anime (previously: how anime avatars became a warning) is pretty weird, isn't it?
The "sociology" seems obvious—a generation of angry, badly-socialized adolescent men letting their nerddom and sexuality curdle in public—but that's the too-easy answer.
