Milo protesting himself.

Depending on which party you support, it is likely you already know the answer to the title question. The Hillary campaign website paints him as the leader of a White Supremacist group called the alt right, simplifying a complex political movement that mostly derides white supremacists. Every mainstream media (liberal) reporter is filled with something between fake and visceral outrage when they mention his name or interview him. He like fellow Trump supporter Azealia Banks was banned by twitter for supporting Trump, though officially for trafficking hate speech. Trump supporters with the exception of real neo-Nazis and the Christian Right love him.

If one were to take the things British provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos says at face value it would be hard to take him seriously. What shocks me much more than his antics, is that the liberal lamestream media and politically correct millennials seem to believe he is a modern fascist militant, when I take his act about as seriously as Andy Kaufman wrestling women.

That said, Milo definitely has a certain charisma. He’s sort of like the gay best friend in a 90s’ romantic comedy, but one who uses his catty power to take down feminists and the liberal establishment without shying away from the gritty details of his sexual escapades in nasty language. Though he’s on the wrong side on a bunch of issues, I can’t help but admire the way he shatters stereotypes and makes no sense to the left.

Like early Howard Stern or 80s’ Eddie Murphy stand up (way better acts than Milo that if made today would have casted them as fascists), you can’t help but want to see what he’ll say next.

His talent is provocation and there’s no easier or funnier group to provoke than oversensitive millennials. When he mouths off on Muslims, feminists and Black Lives Matter activists it stirs real tension. It’s a shocking sight in our anaesthetized culture PC culture.

Idealist millennials are “triggered” by what campuses define as his “hate speech,” that some have ridiculously argued is more powerful than actual violence. For inciting protests and building a massive following of alt right trolls whose memes played a role in electing “Daddy” (the creepily affectionate nickname he gave our president), to the left he became a “Dangerous Faggot,” exactly what he intended when he named his tour that.

Though he spends an inordinate amount of time extolling the virtues of being the bottom with many black men for a serious political commentator (“If you spent time in my bedroom, you’d know I’m not a white Supremacist”), he’s not a complete buffoon, though as rival ex Breitbart editor at large Ben Shapiro notes, “he’s not nearly as intelligent as his British accent makes him appear.”

Still, when Milo spouts out vitriolic facts very pleased with himself (lazily, usually the same facts he repeats every time he addresses the media) to 19-year-old girls asking “Did you know that feminism is the belief that men and women are equal?” on a big stage he looks like an intellectual titan.

Milo is clearly a compelling figure. In spite of this, there’s no logical explanation for the fury of outrage he stirs in people. Though he loves the teenagers sending Nazi propaganda on facebook with their red hats, he’s a half-Greek half-Jewish homosexual that at least publicly condemns racism. He’s a bully on a mission to poke fun at the hypersensitive liberal society his audience have either submitted to or taken a part in constructing. Like Madonna and The Sex Pistols (who he compares himself to but seems to think were around in the 90s), he has shaken Western culture at its core and the left are playing into the palm of his hand.

Once one of many niche conservative dudes on the internet shouting about Colin Kaepernick, the absurdity of feminism, racism against whites and the conspiracy organization Black Lives Matter, he has risen to national prominence because of the clearly unjust response he is getting from protestors. These protestors, who are likely funded by a liberal billionaire disrupter named George Soros, make him a household name and a bestselling author.

The failure of the left to see the irony in calling Milo a fascist, while burning his books is not lost on Trump supporters. It also gives him a huge platform to show how hypocritical liberals are. This is precisely the reason Trump won in the first place. The liberal establishment is very successfully building a world where the accepted norms of culture prevent the acceptance of alternative opinions. Most of the left would be happy if America did what Sweden did, making it illegal to criticize taking in refugees and Islam.

While Bill Maher shouts about how awesome it is that the democrats have their own tea party, to traditional White Middle Class Democrats who voted for Trump in Ohio and Pennsylvania, the new liberals who smash buildings and befriend jihadist sympathizers with anarchist affiliations is a hell of a lot worse than Trump making a mockery of the media that they know like the Clintons is beholden to corporate interests. George Soros, in his infinite stupidity, is ensuring Trump will be reelected.

The problem with Milo for the left is that he’s not wrong about everything. He understands that the establishment is becoming oppressive. He has facts to fight the unfounded blind belief that every progressive initiative is improving the world. He is converting liberals to the side that the institutions are deathly afraid of.

The press, the universities and the liberal establishment is befuddled. Even old-school Republican neoconservatives are calling intellectuals in the president’s administration Nazis. The neoconservatives and the liberals (the elites, think both Clintons, both Bushes and Alan Greenspan) have been peddling such nonsense for so long they have no idea how to react to someone who obfuscates the readily available inarguable truth. Milo Yiannopoulos, like Trump, is just the reaction to a hypocritical system.

The politicians are angry, because they use to have to pretend to be truthful and virtuous with a complicit press that sometimes asks hard questions, but as is clear to Trump supporters, this was all in service of the illusion of objectivity and checks and balances. Everyone knew the politicians were lying, but no one really cared. This is why most of the right don’t care that Trump lies about objective truth.

Trump supporters willfully dismiss the monoculture of absolutist political correctness and intolerance of alternative perspectives has been the rule of thumb for decades. They understand what the intellectual Trump senior national security official Michael Anton noted under a pseudonym before the election, “For two generations at least, the Left has been calling everyone to their right Nazis.” Milo made the same accusation for anyone to the right of Jane Fonda. It’s a brilliant strategy for the left that maintained the status quo, distracting us from right wing military policies of destroying dictatorships that ultimately lead to the rise of Muslim theocracies and chaos. The problem is that in today’s world the hypocrisy is so blatant it ensures Trump will maintain his power. While people like Milo convert people to his side regularly, the left needs to find a better antidote to this than millennial snowflakes crying about micro-aggression, burning things and destroying property.

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