While this article is insightful about the strange appeal of the alt-right and the deficiencies of the technocrats, it misses the problems of the left and why people do not see the left as a viable alternative.

What the left is offering is little more than various flavors of warmed-over Marxism. That’s what is driving the competition for victimhood that is discussed in the article. Everyone wants to be the noble proletariat, no one wants to be the exploitative bourgeoisie. That is why the left’s explanations of the world are obsessed with systems of power and pay little attention to the importance of individual choices. Ironically this can lead people to feel even more disempowered by the left than by the right.

Furthermore, the criticism of video games from the anti-gamergaters is reminiscent of the anti-gaming crusades of the right in the 1990s. It gets dangerously close to policing fantasy.

Given the choice between the arrogant and highly fallible technocrats, the Marxism-lite of the left, and the bizarre and dark romanticism of the alt-right, should we be surprised that so many people are seeing the third option as the least bad one?