Words Matter #1


Trolls for Trump, a recent hit on The New Yorker, records Andrew Marantz's attempts to understand the mind of Mike Cernovich, one of the major voices behind the 'Alt-Right', an up-and-coming political movement of "white nationalists, neo-monarchists, masculinists, conspiracists, belligerent nihilists, and social-media trolls."

The 5,000+ behemoth is masterful in painting an image of a man with morals orthogonal to the average american, utilizing hypocrisy, lies, and illogical rhetoric in a self-aware fashion solely to make his voice heard.
Most of the detailing is done without any explicit detailing, but a particularly pleasing contrast is drawn with two separate quotes almost halfway across the piece:

"In March, he tweeted, “Hillary’s face looks like melting candle wax. Imagine what her brain looks like.” Next, he tweeted a picture of Clinton winking, which he interpreted as “a mild stroke.” By August, he was declaring that she had both a seizure disorder and Parkinson’s disease."  

 "Trump had spent much of the debate sniffling audibly, and I asked Cernovich if he worried about Trump’s health. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they messed with his mike to make it sound like that,” he said."