Aesthetically, what do you make of a crypto ball in a neoclassical building where glamorous outfits are topped off with red MAGA hats?
Being conservative is cool again, and the only source declaring that observation more emphatically than the right itself is New York Magazine.
Gracing the magazine’s cover this week is a photo of hot, young, Trumpy right-wingers sipping hard seltzers and taking selfies at a MAGA inauguration party. The story, written by Brock Colyar, dubs the new “young right” the “Cruel Kids’ Table,” but describes — and photographs — them like an exclusive fraternity whose most vocal critics are those who secretly covet an invite.
What Colyar interprets as “cruel” is partially the ill-calculated commentary of drunk partygoers and partially the invincible, uncancellable attitude of rebellious youth whose message to the nasally assistant principals of the world is “I don’t really care, Margaret.”
The most obvious explanation for the right’s new appeal to young people is that it’s always been “cool” to be countercultural, and now that the left has captured the institutions, to be a conservative is to be a rebel. When the reigning archetype of the left is a pro-obesity activist in rainbow tights with a beard and fake boobs, it’s an act of aesthetic rebellion to throw black-tie parties with hot young people wearing tuxes and evening gowns, MAGA hats optional. […]
— Read More: thefederalist.com
