Trump’s tariffs have pissed off the right’s favorite “pervert”

Unfortunately, we have to talk about Bronze Age Pervert.

The pseudonymous writer, widely identified as a Romanian-American political theorist named Costin Alamariu, has become a popular influencer among very online young conservatives. BAP’s worldview is crudely Nietzschean: decrying women, minorities, and the rule of liberal “bug men,” he urges young conservative men to lift weights and assert their natural dominance in a weak and effeminate America. He has described his politics as “Fascism or ‘something worse,’” and indeed they are.

I generally find BAP’s work “something worse” than offensive: stupid. For all his claims to natural superiority, Alamariu’s writing is shallow and poorly reasoned — full of absurd generalizations and empty provocations. While he has readers in high places