It’s so amusing when my two favorite train wrecks – GamerGate and the Republican Primary – manage to find a way to collide. This week, Donald Trump earned a key endorsement. Not, Sarah Palin –although that one is comedy gold. This one:

That’s right, Mark Kern – a former game developer turned GamerGate zealot with a history of noxious idiotic activity came out in support Donald Trump. Because, you guessed it – Political Correctness!

So, about to lose some followers, but I’m going to back Trump. Nobody else is fighting PC culture or saying what needs to be said. — Mark Kern (@Grummz) January 18, 2016

Yes, that old windmill is back – PC culture is going to destroy us all! Except, of course, that it’s not. Speech has never been more diverse and free than it is right now. It certainly is not bad enough to support someone who is a racist, a sexist, a total asshole, a congenital liar, and completely incapable of delivering a doable or humane campaign policy. Complaints like that are just the SJWs blowing Trump’s record out of proportion!

You’ve used that club so many times its become hollow and brittle and fake. Yet still you cry ‘racist’ until no-one cares. @TheShiriko — Mark Kern (@Grummz) January 20, 2016

This epiphany may or may not have come after a Republican strategist dissed the ‘alt-right’ followers of Trump who masturbate to anime. I feel like I should note that I am not making this up or using hyperbole here – that’s an exact quote.

The full @TheRickWilson trolling the alt-right on their porn habits: pic.twitter.com/uQD9QJ9wZg — Cameron Joseph (@cam_joseph) January 20, 2016

Given that Mark Kern is an aficionado of the waifu navel (with an appetite that GamerGaters generously fill to his retweeting approval), this may have been the decision point. To their credit, The GamerGate hive mind didn’t bite on this directly as near as I can tell, but another GG celebrity did – namely Milo, who took time out of his new hobby of comparing Twitter to a fascist anti-conservative thought police for taking away his blue tick in order to complain about how the Republican establishment weren’t interested in the Alt-Right movement.

.@Nero eh. That you think what defines the AltRight crowd is their “working class” status is just plain weird, and I suspect you know it. — Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) January 20, 2016

@Nero you may be right. But again, of the people who boast that label in my feed, it’s scummy Nordic horseshit and antisemitism. — Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) January 20, 2016

Note: twitter thread then devolves into a whole bunch of Milo fans that proceed to prove Jonah and Rick correct. Jonah Goldberg writes for the National Review, generally considered one of the more respectable bastions of conservative thought on the web and, while I tend to disagree with 80% of the things they write, they generally tend to at least have a veneer of respectability with what they write. Milo, on the other hand, simply writes for Breitbart, which has been accused by former employees of being a bought and paid mouthpiece of the Trump campaign. Ethics!

Then Milo went off to get another time out from Twitter for breaking their terms of service by posting private information about one of GamerGate’s most vocal critics. The future of conservatism, ladies and gentlemen, is apparently being a jerk and then whining when people point it out.