Someone on twitter but it's true that when you read this article it really dawns on you how much Trump/alt-right rise was because of gamergate
Can you elaborate? I'm curious on what you mean, even if I do agree that blaming Trump on Gamergate is a bit of a stretch. (Gamergate seems to merely be a spark that lit on fire preexisting trends.)
Pat Buchanan, influenced by William Lind, expressed "Trumpist" views when he ran for President in 1992 and 1996. His voters show that there has always been a "Trumpist" wing of the Republican Party. Gamergate is just the idea that feminists are too eager to accuse men of rape and to accuse the media of sexism, and was probably just a reaction to the Title IX rape rules. Lind, Buchanan, and Trump never expressed any Gamergate views. The Iraq War, The irrational hysteria about Obama stoked by people like Sarah Palin, the GOP's failure to denounce birtherism when Trump started pushing it, the decline of the rust belt, the TPP, and the Gang of Eight caused Trump.
