One of the narratives going into Election Day was that there were millions of undercover Donald Trump voters. These were people interested in voting for the Republican candidate but afraid of the stigma associated with doing so publicly. The thinking went that they would say one thing in polls, then go to the voting booth and do another.

Whether that was a widespread phenomenon is still unclear, but one observer, Siyanda Mohutsiwa, thinks that may have been the case with young white Americans in the so-called "alt-right." Perhaps more crucially, though, Mohutsiwa points to a pattern of online radicalization where in-group members are insulated from dissenting information and encouraged to camouflage their allegiances:

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If people followed the alt-right groups on Reddit, they would know that young white Americans were told to hide their support of Trump. — Siyanda Mohutsiwa (@SiyandaWrites) November 9, 2016

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When we talk about online radicalization we always talk about Muslims. But the radicalization of white men online is at astronomical levels — Siyanda Mohutsiwa (@SiyandaWrites) November 9, 2016

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That's why I never got one strategy of Clinton's campaign: highlighting Trump's sexism. Trump supporters love him BECAUSE of his sexism — Siyanda Mohutsiwa (@SiyandaWrites) November 9, 2016

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+Those who don't believe he is sexist, think the accusations of assault are proof of how society rewards women for "lying about rape" — Siyanda Mohutsiwa (@SiyandaWrites) November 9, 2016

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These college educated young men were then ripe enough to be sold idea that Trump represented a return to Men Being Real Men — Siyanda Mohutsiwa (@SiyandaWrites) November 9, 2016

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what I've surmised so far is a genuine belief in a return to an ideal america. "Before feminists & minorities destroyed the dream" — Siyanda Mohutsiwa (@SiyandaWrites) November 9, 2016

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yup! A fantasy world — Siyanda Mohutsiwa (@SiyandaWrites) November 9, 2016

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Many of these radical white men were raised by single feminist mothers. Internet groups radicalized their sexual frustration into bigotry. — Siyanda Mohutsiwa (@SiyandaWrites) November 9, 2016

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These online groups found young white men at their most vulnerable & convinced them liberals were colluding to destroy white Western manhood — Siyanda Mohutsiwa (@SiyandaWrites) November 9, 2016

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I've seen this happen w/ a FB friend who lives in a tiny 100% white town in Finland. He started posting about "flawed multiculturalism" — Siyanda Mohutsiwa (@SiyandaWrites) November 9, 2016

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How could a guy who goes months w/o seeing POC be so adamant about failings of "multiculturalism"? Online radicalization — Siyanda Mohutsiwa (@SiyandaWrites) November 9, 2016

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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